Imperial Valley press., 1913-04-26
WHAT CAPTAIN KELLY SEES
IN THE NEW VALLEY FOLDER

and green pasture Is always on hand
No stacking up Of haymows for a Ions
winter siege In Imperial valley: n cut
ting Of hay unless you grow more feed
your your sifaifa. % turn h The s herd into fFs fEsss
field. and let it grow, held and nsld
about. The cows keep healthy. few
have an open country that tends to
make them produce the best and most
all the time The feed Is ideal The
die three times the butter now being
manufactured. Imperial valley butter
s the best grade on the coast. Great
hotels place the name OF the brand on
heir menu cards, and the guest knows
he Is getting the finest
Dairy. cows produce on an averase
200 each per year. and this does not not
sk'mmilk feed for pigs.
To say that the dairy industry. Of
Imperial valley is two million dollar
industry means that almost that much
swine and shssp-The hog ssps-
cialIy has been found highly profitable
here. From pighood up TO 300 pound
alfalfa fields. Then turn him into bar.
ley, and he quickly makes of himself
an asset convertible into cash at mo-
Wsn7 n rs, 900 O' Of him in the Wiley at III.
present time, and his number IS in
oreasins day by day. Hogs are nm
on fo% Ssr;y i. or Of S2 Ars srs
our wosks on hard grain hardsns the
flesh and Sivss toothsoms flavor to
the meat. Imperial valley hogs are
There are now about 100000 shs9p
in Imperial valley. They are brought
in from tho mountains OF Utah ana NJ
vads, fattsnsd and h then nlssa taken to .ir Los
brought in yearly is rapidly Increasing,
we to the. plentiful and cheap food
| ,btainabls in the valley.
faifa and growing barley, helds. The
| after, about knee high when they are
turned into it, will be eaten to the
Nth IN: Eronnd 1rn.a a oh Dari th, .,a
up, as green and as thick as ever.
| The field is pastursd again, As IN the
| lowed to mature and grain harvested
| or the field cut for hay. In this man
ner a crop of barley can be made to
twice over what the Ersn ,ner.ass or as
of sheep in this valley is about 1zo
Alfaifa-Alfalfa holds tn. largest
e.sm. p'sns @1u to sui. IT," Il 90 p.rf.ctiy. On one
n. finest alfalfa upon which no ssed
/ wAa ever sewn- II SIMPLY lnFeoe0 anu
! appropriated the land. Imperial valley
| holds the distinction of having within
ITS boundaries more alfalfa acreage
than all the rest OF Southern California
Ther. were more than 100000, acres
of alfalfa and 10000 acres Of barley
srown in the valley during 1912.
Let it De established that any country
| ot alfalfa o, this, and 1t will be estAb-
li.hed at the same time that It Is a
| rcod stock country. And let the cii-
mate be ,hs climate Of Imperial valley.
round, and in which animals ever nosd
to be protected from the elements, and
become, a highly PrSfItatSls, SnnDtH !, stock soeS
| 4 country is evidenced by the large
number sf animals raised and fattened
BarIsy-Yarlsy is usually the nr.t
crop grown on newly reclaimed land
| because 1t does well in virgin SOIL re-
Quires no cultivation after planting
needs less irrigation than other crops,
fairly profitable. II Is customary 70
1ow barley at any time between the
| first OF November and the middle OF
vested c. early in May. The Yield runs
from a ton 10 a ton and half TO
the acre, and the market price runs
from s25 TO So7 a ton.
The desert sntrymen grows bafiey
cover his whole acreage with compare
lively little labor. and does not need
fellows the barley with a crop OF cora.
Grown on large areas. barley has
proved a very profitable crop. but II is
| giving way to alfalfa and cotton, which
yield better returns from SINAI! acrea-
age
in this valley. Figs. apricots, late
pears. dates, olives oranges: lemons, mons,
! 3granates. and the prices paid for I'm
rerial valley fruit surpise all, yet these
prices are bound to hold when there
IS only. one place that can supply the
The first fruit fair ever held in I'm
i perial valley was conducted early In
June, ltl2, with surprisingly good sx-
berries. oranges and lemons. grape
fruit, olives. pomegranates, thus dem
onstratlng that this will be one Of
California's great fruit sections .,.v
amounted to about ESQ carloads, raised
on 1000 acres. This valley ships the
earliest grapes In the market, and ma
turally receives the highest prices. The
daily shipments in the height of the
season were 10 carloads.
Grapes ripen early in June. and from
that time until December are always
on the vines. Freshly picked grapes
on tho Thanksgiving table are no nov
| city.
One Of the newest horticultural de-
velopments in the Imperial valley IS
| the olive industry, as several ranchers
have proved that olive trees thrive
and produce very heavily. that the
fruit is exceedingly large and well
II9v9red' and that the climate is sl, ad;
curing of olives.
Imperial valley is giving promise of
being the best date producing district
in the world, and with the Coachella
va1leV and lncalify in AriZOna II
holds a monopoly In the United States
of that product.
Summing up 90. We have ase,v here sssson. the
making an early market; the trees
bearing much earlier here than in other
districts, and no frosts to injure the
fruit. Why should this not be an
ideal fruit growing country?
oranges-There are evidences that
orange growing Is to become one of
the great Industries of the Imperial
experiments in this direction. The
fruit is sweet, of a fine flavor, ana
always ready for the market from six
weeks to two months earlier than the
ern California. This eliminates com
petition with the better known sec
tlons, and insures a better price for
the fruit of the valley by reason of it's
perial valley has $4,000 orange trees
at present, and this number Is sure
to be largely increased within the next
few years by the planting by those
practical orange growers who have
recognized the opportunities here and
are planting many thousands of trees
in nursery beds.
Cantaloupes-The very mention of
eantaloupes Immediately suggests the
Imperial valley The cantaloupes
here are of the very best variety
and flavor. This valley holds the rec
ord shipment for number of carloads
in one day, of over 14O cars These
cantaloupes bring the highest prices In
the eastern markets, and are on the
market at least three weeks before
those of any other section Of the
United States. In one season 5000 car
loads were shipped
WatermelOns also play an important
part in the bank account of the farmer
who raises them.
The cantaloupe brings the quicke est
returns of any crop yet planted In the
valley. The seed Is planted about the
Let of EahruarY and the al