El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-12-12

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would you like to have luscious
peaches at Christmas. ripe plums,
pears and cherries in the heart Of
midwinter, and great white MUSK
melons when the ground is covered
with snow2
This is what you may expect from
Chile now that the Panama canal IS
completed and the war demand Ior
American goods is turning our ship
ping that way. The vessels carrying
our wages to Pacific South America
will furnish cheap return frelghUsi ana
the prospect is that in the near future
many of them will come loaded with
Seasons Opposite of Ours
The seasons on this side of the
equator are the opposite of ours. The
fruit begins to ripen here late IN our
fall. and the Chileans have plums,
peaches and pears ready for the mar
ket in the midst Of our winter
From now on Valparaiso will be
within two weeks Of New York, and
the canal has placed a South Amerl-
can California, with It's summer proo-
ucts. almost at our doors.
The prospect Of a great expectation
OF Chilean fruits to the United states
is agitating the farmers the govern
ment is Investigating the subject ana
schools for teaching fruit growing and
the packing and expectation OF IIulls
are being established. Chile has long
been the chief fruit-grOwing country
o. the lower half of our hemisphere
It already has orchards of hundreds
Of acres and its vineyards are yield
ing about 5O,O0Q,OOO gallons OF VINE
earth that has better fruit possibilities
and it products are now to be dropped
upon Uncle Sans tables.
The Fruit King OF Chile.
In order to give you some idea OF
what this great industry may do for
the United States, have spent DAY
with Don Salvador lZpulerdo ). IN go
ing over his fruit and nursery planta-
tions situated near the town of Nos
and about - miles from Santiago Don
Salvador is the fruit king OF chile
and might almost call him the LuJner
Burbank of our sister continent He
has an irrigated hacienda OF about
1,4O0 acres covered with gardens ana
orchards, and plantations for the ralS-
ing of flowers, plants and trees OF al
most every variety. He has now more
than 5000, 600 individual plants in the
estate and he ships plants by the tens
OF thousands to all parts OF Chlle, anu
also across the Andes 10 Argentina
Uruguay and Brazil.
He is not only a grower Of nursery
stock, but is likewise a sclentIC
breeder Of new varieties. Altogether
he has introduced into Chile more
than $500 new varieties Of fruits ana
plants and he has himself originated
by cross breeding hundreds Of valuable
trees and flowers. Some Of his eX-
DEElInGnLb I'D We nEHAl dACA4E1 AAAN AAA-S
creating trees not subjected to certain
blights and pests. He has already
created fourteen new varieties OF ap-
pies not affected by the insect known
as the schizonera lanifera, that is now
destroying our apples of many parts
OF the world.
Among the other experiments Of
Senior Izquierdo S. is the elongating the
roots of the eucalyptus and other trees
so that they can be grown upon the qry
lands of the tops Of the mountains
This is done by sprouting them IN pOlS
where the young trees are FED win
nitrate of soda and treated in such a
way that their roots are about four
times the usual size.
Being planted, these long roots go
far down into the soil and tap the
underground layers of water, and are
therefore able to resist the drouth. 1t
was in recognition of this discovery !
that the Royal Agricultural Society Of
London has just unanimously elected
Don Salvador IzquierdO S. member Of
that body.
A Trip over the Estate.
But cannot give you better idea
OF the Possibilities of fruit raising In
Chile than by taking you with Don sal
vador over his great fruit estate. We
start at 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 on
both sides of the railroad. At Nos we
leave the train and take the private
car line owned by Don Salvador for
the hacienda which is a distance Of
five miles away.
The car is pulled by a horse, but the
Chilean driver makes the animal go on
the gallop. We go over a road lined
with poplars a hundred feet high, by
great fields in which fat cattle are
grazing, and within Q short time are
on Don Salvador's property.
As we ride in we pass a thrashing
machine which is moved by this plant.
IT was imported from America and its
noise carries us back TO our farms at
home. The grain is coming in from
the fields in enormous OX-carts, and il
Is fed directly from the carts to the
thrasher. AS the barley pours forth
il is caught in buckets made Of
skin holding a bushel or more and
carried by men to a great pile on the
ground.
We next walk to the sawmill near
by. where the men are making lum-
her out Of some of the trees that Don
Salvador has planted within the past
20 years. The soil and climate here
are such that trees will grow twice
as fast as in our country There are
eucalyptus a hundred feet high that
are not over Is years Of age, and