The San Francisco call., 1910-11-05
EVERY inch OF
RICH SOIL IS
WELL titled
Bees Gather Honey From Bios
SONS That Turn to Wealth
Producing Fruit
Vegetables and Berries Yield
Full Returns Under Orange
and Cherry Branches


the great 10000 acre wheat ranch in
and a half acres OF land in that vicin-
ity would be enough land TO support
farmer. Doctor Glenn probably would
have recommended that his informant
consult an alienist But ". F. Burt
OF Princeton. Colusa county. near the
Glenn county line. has proved that
seven and half acres are enough for
& complete farm. He won registered
HoIstein COW for his demonstration by
showing the best developed farm in
that section OF the state.
Doctor Glenn had wheat. wheat
wheat-40, 900 acres Of it, and he had
an army Of men and a battalion OF
horses working for him. No other crop
appeared 10 break the profitable mo-
notony Of Doctor Glenns estate. AS
for Burt. he grows nearly everything
but wheat. and raised, with profit TO
himself and immense credit to Colusa
county and the Sacramento valley and
the state Of California. hogs. hominy,
honey, corn and clover. He starts the
alpha bet with alfalfa and apricots and
bers and fiery green peppers grow side
by side and the bee and the blackberry
glory in mutual respect and aid
BURT ALSO WORKS
Burts farm at Princeton is like a
happy family of the vegetable king
dom. And everything works for him
the COWS and pigs and the bees and
The corn and the melons and the pota-
toes under the earth. From the Sac
TT,.- he
north Of Glenn county. come canals
of Warer flowing cOolly through the
plains over many miles to the Burt
place at Princeton There the farmer
-i~rigetes his seven and a half acres
and raises his crops and his family
Of children who 20 to school and enjoy
All the Injuries that grow out of the
ground i'm temperate California
Burt won his prize cow in competition
with all the farmers who draw water
from the same canal system that irri-
gates his place. The competition eK-
tended over two counties and the
farmers Wed with one another TO make
the finest showing on their respective
places. Burt won. If farming went by
championships. Burt would be declared
the champion small acreage farmer in
the state.
II is said Of the Californian that he
is prodigsl and wasteful in his farming.
That le sows broadly and none too
close. That his pillow has the habit of
cutting corners and neglecting fertile
odds and ends.
EVERY INCH CULTIVATED
Burt is not that sort of a farmer.
His pI0wshares know the property
lire on every one Of the four sides of
the place. He is absolutely impartial
in his furrows. Not a foots breadth
can complain OF neglect or lack Of at
uention
The story Of Burt should be bound
in pigskln and carried in the jockey
box of every farm wagon.
Burt was not farmer all his life.
Prior 10 November 1904. he was a dray-
man in Crescent City, Del Norte county.
He had had some little farming expert
ence before he drove the dray. but not
much. However. he had $1,000, which
helped a little.
He arrived at Princeton Colusa coun-
~. in November. 1904. He had the
s. 900. That was his capital-that and
his energy and common sense. With
that $1,000 he made q partial payment
\ On his y acre place. He had 10 have
roof, so he did the best thing pos
sible and built q house himself That
saved something He bought q team
Of horses during the winter and began
his plowing preparatory to the spring
planting
When the new year Of 1905 dawned
Burt didn't have his $1,000 cash. but
he did have an equity in the 4 acres
Of land. he had q dwelling for him
self and his family and he had team
OF plow horses and 71z acres of ground
broken.
SEVEN ACRES ONLY
IN considering the Burt place from
now on, we are considering seven acres
OF land-for one half acre was ruth
lessly appropriated TO a dwelling and
has only seven and half acres all told,
but Burt made it. With the balance of
his place he started farm.
First he planted three acres in al
falfs. Around the house he put in a
small orchard. Then ii was that ne
began 10 utilize the land to its full
capacity and made two plants grow
where most people would think there
was room for only one. Between the
trees he planted strawberries, mammoth
blackberries, loganberries, raspberries
and various vegetables.
He did al Of that on seven acres?
you ask
Why. we haven't more than started
TO enumerate the crops that were
started on that territory. Burt, it must
be remembered, did not believe in put
ting all his eggs into one basket, no
matter how closely the basket could be
watched
PIGS, cows, CHICKENS
We had got down as far as his berry
patch. With all the patches already
cited he still had room for Egyptian
corn and melons. 1t would seem that
the melons must have been trained on
a higher air stratum than the straw
berries and the Egyptian corn grown
tover the vegetable garden. But Burt
ldeclsreo that he didn't operate a double
'decked farm. Everything held to the
one level One would begin to think
that by this time the trees would be