Imperial Valley press and the Imperial press., 1906-04-28

finer vines, nor better stand anywhere
 on our trip. The Judge has a system
 Of hls own fer raising eantaloupes and
 # he makes good this year, he be-
 lieves he will have nc further trouble
 in holding the belt as the Champion
 Cantaloupe Grower of the Imperial
 Valley" Just keep your eye on Judge
 Holloway. From Hovsley's we drove
 back to Brawley arriving just at noon.
 After dinner Mir. Hoveley took Mir,
 Latson and oursef out again. driving
 south and southeast from the town
 The first ranch we visited was the De.
 Moulin ranch. of which Mir Malan Is
 manager. On this ranch the work of
 showing what the lands about Brswley
 are good for. has been carried to a
 better state of demonstration than on
 any other in the country for the reason
 that the grape vines and fruit trees
 have been planted longer Here we
 saw aprlcots more than half grown, qulnees as large as hens eggs, figs nearly grown, peaches almost full size,
 besides blackberries and other small fruits in great variety. Every kind of fruit tree and every vine is in excellent condition, are much larger than can be found of their age in any other country. and are loaded with fruit.
 A little farther on we came to the vineyard where are several acres of the oldest grape vines in this Valley except few at Calexico. These vines like all the rest we saw that day are literally loaded with grapes Two year old vines, that is, vines set out in the spring of 1904 are larger than five year old vines would be anywhere out side of this Valley. are growing with the rankest kind of vine and foliage and have more punches of grapes than leaves on every vine We counted more than forty full size punches on several vines and the young grapes are already as large as duck shot. This crop will be mature and in he market | the first part of June and the vine will immediately set a second crop. The second crop will be larger than this one now growing. for the vine will be larger and will be fully as heavily load ed They will be ripe the latter part of August and after that a third crop will come on heavier than any and that will ripen in November and later In fact Mir. Malan informed us that with the seedless Sultana grapes it was a continuous performance. there being ripe grapes half grown ones blooms and grapes in all stages on the vines all the time from about the middle of May till Christmas last year There are also some very fine cantaloupes on this ranch, too IL was here that we found out new wrinkle about Brawley agriculture We met man who not only raises cantaloupes and keeps bees but he actually hires out his bees to work for his neighbors We daresay there isn't place in the world outside of Brawley where bees work for wages and we wouldn't have believed if then If we hadn't witnessed the transaction. Ii Is this way: The early cantaloupes are the most valuable but as the first blossoms that appear are so scattered from each other it Is difficult for them to get pollenated without assistance. Ii is at this job of carrying pollen from one cantaloupe bloom to another that the little busy bee earns his salary. Mir. Hoveley has hired twenty stands