The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-01-02
Letter From Maj Dollard.

OIdEh Il lENDO
Here we are at Christ.
mas eating green peas, just picked
frona our garden, for dinner and
such peas! | planted a quart of
seed about the middle of October
and if 1 get a quart of shelledLpeas
as the result | shall succeed beyond
my most sanguine expectations,
but I should say in justice to the
situation that while | had plenty
of water at hand | did not take the
trouble to irrigate, but depended
upon the storm waters, which have
not come in volume sufficient to
make my winter gardening q sue
cess.
Last spring | set out two orange,
one fig, one lemon and n peach
tree. / flooded them with water
during the growing season and I
prided myself on my success, but
happening to shower a few drops
of water on one of my orange trees
the other day, which wet its bios
SONS, it now appears to be as dead
as Julius Caesar, and my fig tree,
which was a fine one, soon after
fell a victim to a vicious gopher,
which ate its roots and about half
its body, as big Is my arm, for
about six inches above the ground,
but | am promised a large fig tree
to replace it, by Frank Dirks, who
owns a nice place about a block be-
low me and has an owe supply CT
orange and fig trees. MIR. Dirks is
from South Dakota. He formerly
lived in Yankton county, near
GAINESVILLE, was connected with the
register of deeds Office OF that coun-
ty and later moved to Centerville,
in Turner county.
Another product OF this section,
which is attracting attention, is
the crop of wild cats. In the San
ia Monica mountains, about three
miles north of US, which is a pro-
life source of irrigation waters,
holly and rattle snakes, a boy can
tree a wild cat, leave his dog at its
foot to entertain him, go to school,
SO as not to be tardy, and after
this return with his gun and dis
patch bis game. This brings me
to a clipping from a newspaper out
here as follows:
California has produced climate as
usual, or rather better than the aver
age, this summer and fall, and there
are cheering notes of the harvesting
season.
Gridley reports two pumpkins weigh.
ing 9e and 65 pounds which just grew
without any particular care Or encour-
agement.
Down near Gilroy a sunfiower waif
developed into a tree II inches in diam
eter, and the blooming top thereof
weighed q pounds. In that same re-
gion prunes go eight to the pound.
The news from Grass Valley is of
peaches, loads of them, 10 inches in cir
conference, r assaying $3.50 a ton and
a Shakespeare club in full action.
In Suffer county is a vineyard sever
al Of whose vines produce 100 pounds of
seedless grapes each; also a peach or
chard of two acres that has yielded
s / ,0Os.
Lompoc IS busy figuring on onions.
One place of t~wenty-four acres will
yield 200 bags to the acre, 100 pounds
to the bag, and the price is 50 a humid
red pounds. The owner should get
nearly So 900 for his crop.
In Trinity county there is a fine crop
of panthers and coyotes. Scalps of the
former are quoted at SIS and coyote
scalps at 50.
There is no reason to doubt the ac-
curacy of these reports, but some eau
ton is desirable on the part Of immi-
grants from the East. Glorious as the
state is and attractive beyond question,
it doesn't always produce four or five
hundred dollars to the acre. Cases have
been known of investments in orchards
that didn't pay expenses in ten years.
F~fguratiyely speaking. the investor re
ceived alemon, and actually he might
put the cost of one lemon at several
hundred dollars.
This reminds us of still another note,
From San Bernardino County there has
just been shipped q carload Of lemons
to Japan. In view Of recent events
this might be considered unpleasantly.
significant, but it appears that large
shipments to the Orient were made
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