Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-13
CANAL WILL MAKE CHILE
WINTER FRUIT GARDEN
IL Will Furnish Of Its Very Finest
Products for Joy of Amer
lean Stomach.
VISIT 10 GREAT PLANTATION
There Will &c Peaches, Plums and
Cherries for Christmas and White
Muskmclons in Midst OF Snow.
Millions of Plants.
nv FRANK q. CARPENTER.

) pluinS. pears and cherries in The
heart OF midninter. and great white
s nuskmeions when tho ground is COW
cred with snow? This is what YOU
may expect from Chile now that the
4 Panama Canal is completed and the
War demand for American goods is
turning our shipping that way. The
vessels carrying our wares TO Pacific
South America will furnish cheap re-
turn freights. and tho prospect Is that
IN the near future many oil Them will
come loaded with fruit Tho seasons
,,Sn this side of the equator are the OPP
posite of ours. The fruit begins TO
ripen here late III our fall and tho
Chileans have plums, peaches and
pears ready for the market in the
midst of our winter,
From now on Valparaiso will be
within two weeks OF New York. and
the canal has placed q South American
California, With IT'S summer products,
almost at our doors. The prospect
of a great eSportation OF Chilear fruits
TO the United states is agitating the
farmers. The government Is investi-
eating the subject, and schools for
reaching fruit growing and tho pack
ing and expectation of fruits ere being
established. Chile has lonG been the
chief fruit growing country OF the
lower half OF our hemisphere. 1t al.
ready has orchards OF hundreds OF
acres. and its vineyards are yielding,
about 100000 gallons of wine every
year. There is no land upon earth that
has better fruit possibilities, and it's
products are now TO he dropped upon
Uncle Sans tables.
In order to give yon some idea of
what this great industry may do for
the United States, have spent II day
with Don Salvador IzquiertloJ s. in go
ing over his fruit and nursery planta-
lions, situated near the town of Nos
and about twelve miles from Santiago.
Don Salvador is the fruit king OF Chile.
and ] might almost call him the Luther
Burbank of our sister continent He
has an irrigated hacienda ossaDouI 1,Io0
acres, covered with gardens and or
chards, and plants tio,is for the raising
OF flowers, plants ana trees of almost
every variety. lie has now more thar
l3.0o0,0oG Individual plants in the es-
tate, and he ships plants by the tens OF
thousands TO all parts OF Chile, and
also across tho Andes to Argentina
Uruguay and Brazil. He is not only II
grower of nursery stock, but is like
wise n scientific breeder Of new va
rietles. .htoScther lie has introduced
into Chile more than 1900 now va
Iieties OF fruits and plants and he
has himself originated by cross breed
Ing hundreds OF valuable trees and
1owcrs. Some Of Ills experiments have
been along the line of creating trees
not subject TO certain blights and pests
He has already created fourteen new
varieties OF apples not affected by the
INSECT known as the schizoncra llni-
icra, that Is now destroying our apples
Of many parts OF tho world. The new
varieties are grated onto the stalks
OF ordinary trees. The insect crawIs
up the stalk, but II stops whore the
gratis begin. and the trees and their
fruit arc found to be safe.
Among the other experiments OF
senior Izquierdo :. is the clongatin,,
tho roots OF tho cucalyptus and other
trecs so that they can he grown upon
the dry lands Of the TORS of the noun
tains. This is done by sprouting item
IN, pots, where the Young trees are FED
with nitrate OF soda and treated in
such way that their roots are about
-four times The usual size. Being plant
cd, these long roots go far down into
the soil and tap the underground lay
ers OF water, and are therefore, able
10 resist tine drought. 1t was in roe
ognition OF this discovery that the
Royal Agricultural Society OF London
':;is just unanimously elected Don sal
vador Izquierdo $, q member Of lhat
body. -. :.
But / cannot g!yo H6l u better idea
OF the possibilities of fruit raising in
Chile than BY taking you with Don Sal
rador over his great fruit estate We
start 1T the station IN Santiago and
Within an hour have ridden out to the
little station OF Nos. Our way is
through the central valley OF chile,
and We see great farms and vineyards
en- both sides OF ihc railroad. Al Nos
we leave the train and take the pri :
rats car line owned by Don Salvador
FOR the hacienda, Which is distance
of five miles away. The car is pulled
Aoy horse, bu; the Chilean driver
makes the animal 20 on the gailop.
We go over road lined with poplars
hundred feet high, by great fields In
which fat cattle are grazing, and with :
in a short time are on Don Salvndors
property. The estate is surrounded by
magnificent scenery, 1t lies on n plain
ut the foot Of tho mountains. slopin;;
toward then, just enough to give the
lali required for the irrigation bitches
These arc fed by n branc,, OF the Ma
pocho River, rushing stream so large
and swift that II not only !rri.:atcs the
loco acres Of plants, but also furnishes
me electric current that runs all the
machinery. one of the canals turns :,
turbine that gives the estate ] 20 horse
= s'oH'-i- ms pi@ui ilSHls tns nnCfcuui,
and other buildings, il runs Sawrnille
and thrashcrs and moves the machines
of large fruit packing and canine
establishment.
As We ride in we pass I; thrashing
machine which is moved by this plant
IL ~as imported from America and
its noise carries us back 20 our farms
: at home. The grain is coming in from
The hclda in enormous oX-cartg, and
Il Is fed directly from The carts to III,
thrasher. As the harley pours fortl,
u IL caught in buckets made OF skin
holding = bushel or more aud carried
by men ia 4 great pile OH tho ground
We next walk 10 the sawmill by
where the men arc making lumber gu
or some Of the trees that Don Snlvadci
has planted within the past twcnt,
Years. The soil and climate here ar,
suth that trees will grow twice a,
fast us IN our country There ar,
eucalyptus hundred fee. high tina
are not over fifteen years Of age, ant
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