The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-12-15

on hn,h seal farms and VINEYARDS
Nos W." sloes OF the railroad A.
-,cS We cav the train ana -
private ear line owned nv Va Il
uor Ior the hacienda. which - a.
.anIe OF i've miles away tn o.
puileo by a horse, but the chiia
liver makes the animal 90 ~ -
S"liop' We go over d road lined ,.;tb
So1da d hundred feet high bv great
and - "hich lat cattle are grazing
S.l,o"1 d snort time are Oh Don
oalvauors property. The estate -
by magnificent scanar-
IL nes on a plain at the foot of tie
niouhtaiIls, slipping toward them i,,St
Unou6h To give the fall reoIired Tor
ne irrigation bitches. These ara fed
ny d branch of the Mapocho river .
!uShine stream so larSe and swift that
~ hot only lrrigates the 1000 acres
OF plants, but also furnishes the aIac-
trio current that runs ali +hn ~
chinery. One OF the canals turns .
turbine that gives the estate 10
horsepower. This plant LIGHTS he
nd'ieiua and other buildings. If runs
%" hlills and thrashers and moves
the achln OF a large fruit hacking
Shu canning establishment.
AS We ride III we pass a thrashirg
which is moved by his
pr"ii'' IT. was imported from Aulpri-
ca and its noise carries rs hacx =.
our farms at home. The Grain is cows
ing IN from the fields in enorrnone
oA-cafts, and it is fed directly from
the carts to the thraSher As the
paflev pours forth it is cauehr in
puchets made of skin holding a busheI
OF more and carried BY men 10 a
great pile on the ground.
We next walk to the sawmill near
ny, where the men are making hmm
per out OF some of the trees that Don
salvador has planted within the past
twenty years. The soil and climate
mere are such that trees will grow
Twice rs faSt as III our n There
are eucalyptus q hundred feet high
that are not over fifteen years of age,
n palms as big around as a hogs
mead tnat ave been planted within
the past generation. The big trees on
tnlS estate are numbered by the hum
areas or thousands, and they have ali
Deen planted since 1884, which was
the time When Don Salvador began to
turn his ancestors grain and dairy
farm into a nursey. Some Of these
trees are raised solely for wood, and
there are little forests of eucalyptus
containing thousands of individual
trees that are being grown for this
purpose. Some of these trees are only
a year or so old, while others are
from Is to 100 feet high.
Around the large fields making up
the plantation are rows of LOtnbardy
populars 100 feet high. These are the
fences of the estate, and they make
walls Of green of wonderful beauty.
They often follow the irrigation ditch
eS, making a double row of these trees,
Walling the orchard or pastures within.
The rows of pOpulars are often $50
| feet high and that a1rhnlI0, thnU ara
only sixteen years old. The custom
Of using them for fences and to mari
out the boundary lines is common
throughout the central valley Of Chile.
This adds greatly to the beauty of
the country. 1t changes the face Of
the landscape and makes it loo great
~ like the farming regions OF Frence.
1t is safe to say that h country has
tens of millions of these beautiful
trees.
This great estate is divided by such
trees into sections. Some are devoted
to grain, some to vegetables and fruit
growing and others to the raising OF
plants, flowers and trees like our lar
ger nurseries at home. Goine onward
we are soon in the nursery part Of the
estate. We pass rapidly from one
great ~tree-Walled enclosure tc another,
riding on the railway. There are so
many separate plantations, and the
varieties are so different, that | can
not describe them. Don Salvador
tells me that altogether he has $4,000
different species of trees on the farm.
He sells a half million eucalyptus trees
every year, and receives single orders
for as many as 10000 trees at one
time. He has one plantation of CitrOuS
trees in their various stages OF cuiti-
walton. and here you ma see ranges
lemons and grapefruit OF every variety
He has long lines OF poplars from
stock that came from South Carolina
and III one of the nurseries there are
@, 900 acacias. IL another section We
find 100000 peach trees ready 1or
tsaIe and as We pass this We come Into
acres OF apple trees, ranging IN SIZE
from mere sprouS to almost as hlsA
aS orr heads. There are 1oo,U0V apple
trees in this field, and they are twice
as rail- and as thrifty as trees OF the
same age in our American nurseries
r had a snapshot made OF Don saliva
- ,,5 nvSelf as we stood III the nuF-