The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-01-10

requires more dSSlduOuS care through
out the year, although even in the
idle months the prosperous fruit
grower will give time and attention to
his orchard.
POPULAR POULTERING
Chicken raising is an industry which
in California has attracted much at
tention from home seekers. It is a Gu
+ rious fact that out of more than &C, 00o
letters received by the California Pro-
motion Committee, more than one-half
have inquired about the opportunities
/ in this industry. The most notable
I chicken raising town in California is
! Petaluma, in Sonoma county IN the
first four months of this year / am in
formed that 1,4S4,441 dozen eggs we're
+ sold in Petaluma for shipment and cold
storage alone.
/ AT an average price of % cents a
| dozen" says a press dispatch, the in
come to the egg ranchers for this period
exceeded $685. 900. In addition, r,Iore
| than $4,000 worth of chickens were
shipped from Petaluma The annual
egg output of Petaluma has been nsti-
mated at 100000 dozen, but it is said
that 100000 dozen will not be too high
an estimate for 1909 PetaIuma has
population of 5000. The twelfth census
showed that there were $50 600 white
leghorn fowls in Petalun1a, exclusive of
other breeds. There are many ocher
sections of the State in which poultry
raising is carried on on wholesale
scale. Even so, there is an importa-
ton in California of several million dol
lars of poultry products yearly.
Diversified farming and the raising of
small fruits are industries which APP
peal to many and in which the rural
. population of California derives a large
] living. The success in cultivation of
small plots of land under irrigation is
one of the greatest of all factors in the
States progress. Thousands of new
Corners to California engage in diversi-
fed farming and small fruit farms
with success. At the California Promo
ton Committee we find that the pub
LEGATION of what has been done, giving
names and addresses of parties, is eff
fective. In publishing such matter
without comment the prospective set
tier is able to judge for himself whether
the industries mentioned appeal to him.
1t is a method which, in~m my opinion,
is beneficial, not only to the State, but
is of advantage to the prospective set
tier.
SMALL FARMS, BIG PAY.
One of the most notable instances of
success in small farming is that Of Mr.
Cleek of Orland, who has lived on a
single acre of land for twenty-five
years, and from it has made enough to
support himself and wife and put mon
ey in the bank almost every year. In
fact, Mr.. Cleek has accumulated suffi-
cient capital from this plot to be able
to loan money. Thomas Oats has an
orchard two miles from Sacramento.
from which he realizes $1,000 an acre for
Royal Anne cherries. Florin, in Sacra-
mento county, is noted for it's strawber-
ries. Up to August 9Th last year F'lorin
shipped 1895 tons of strawberries, hav-
ing a value of s131.4OO. Robert Barne
by, at Florin, rented five acres of land
on equal shares. The patch yielded 2900
crates, from which Mr.. Barneby re-
ceived as his half, after paying for all
crates and baskets, $1026. have names
of about thirty others at Florin, which
possesses a railway station, a country
store and some other scattered build |
ings who have done as well. Margaret |
and Lizzie McMurray, at Fair Oaks Off !
a quarter of an acre of phenomenal and /
Logan berries, sold $500 worth of ber |
ries net, besides S144 worth of plants. |
Wing Stewart of San Diego, 500 miles /
south, has forty bushes of guavas on u |
patch of ground so by IS feet in size, |
from which he has at this writing pick |
ed 1000 pounds of fruit. before the sea-
son closes, in February, he will have
picked another 1000 pounds. J. e. Hay
den this year tells me he sold $500 I
worth of strawberries from one acre |
of ground. The output Of berry farms
is not included in statistics of the +
States fruit crop.
INFORMATION IS READY.
When an inquirer wishes to know
either about dairying or Embarrassing
and wishes to balance the relative
merits of each, these are presented to
him in the fullest manner possible; he
is informed of the conditions and OPP
portunities in each industry in the To-
calities with which he is most impress
ed, and the decision is left entirely to
him without any attempt to influence
his choice, either directly or by an I'M
fair presentation. To supply this in
formation requires a large and compe-
tent staff. Over 200 letters are sent
from the Promotion Committee daily,
in answer to inquirers from all parts
Of the world. The committee maintains
a headquarters in San Francisco, and
during the winter months has contrib |
uted largely toward the support of an
exhibit in Los Angeles. These head
quarters, by the distribution of great
quantities of literature, etc, help to
arouse an interest among Californians
in regard to their own State, as well
as to furnish a convenient opportunity
for visitors to obtain information. In
fact, the work done at home, in the
commonwealth itself, must be the foun-
1ation of all real success in the up
building of the State. What one organ
cation can accomplish singly is in
intestinal when compared to the re-
suits obtained when all citizens are
aroused to enthusiasm and lend their
cooperation in seeing that home-seek-
ers are satisfactorily established in the
new land. California has been con-
;picuously successful in advertising its
resources. The State has now reached
/ period of steady industrial growth,