Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-01-29
Mrs. Elizabeth Gattwinkel Writes
of Some of the Wonderful
Crops in Above State
FINDS THAT MEXICAN
FAMILIES ARE LARGE
Meets Former Baraboo People,
One Of Which Is William Rich
ards---Wichern Family Near

Have thought that some of you
might be interested in hearing about
the school system and some other
things about this splendid section OF
California where we live and where
the slogan Is, "Chino, where every
thing grows"
This section is, indeed, rich along
agricultural lines. Here peaches,
apricots, grapes, lemons, oranges.
grapefruit, tomato, pears apples, ber-
ries, melons and cantaloupes flourish
abundantly, and any of these make
a good marketable crop for the ranch
or.
We have splendid Libby, Nc
Neil & Libby cannery here to better
care for the great quantities of fruit
raised each year. We also have a
packing house for apples; another at
Narod, a few miles distant for oranges
and lemons, and it has been recently
voted to build a growers packing plant
at Chino, to care for the steadily
growing crops of walnuts.
Walnuts do not begin to produce
until the tree is from six to eight
years old, so consequently rancher
must wait some time to see his money
grow. Less than block from our
house we reach the corner of 100
acre tract of walnuts, which bore pro-
fusely for the first time this year.
The investors owning the tract came
near being financially embarrassed be-
fore the eight years were up.
Peanuts also are becoming good
crop, but alfalfa still leads as farm
crop, although beans are close sec
ond. / will here enclose clipping
recently taken from our home paper
concerning a huge bean:
Gigantic Papuan Bean Is Grown In
Chino
w. J. Tebo is the champion bean
grower of the valley, if you will be-
Heve the following statements.
Mr.. Tebo brought into the Cham
pion office a single bean pod that is
twenty-eight inches long, round, -four
inches in diameter and weighs about
eight pounds.
OF course, if you believe the state
ments made, you will recognize that
some new kind of bean is being grown
and that is statement Of the facts
The new bean, of gigantic proper
tons, has been introduced into semi
tropical countries from Papua. Some
specimens have reached the length OF
thirty-six inches and weight OF
eleven pounds.
Unlike other beans tn, pod alone
is edible and is prepared like the wei
known egg plant but the flavor is
said to be very much superior to that
of the egg plant.
This Papuan bean is grown extern
sively in Chino and Japan. 1t is some
times sun dried for winter use"
Big Pumpkins
Pumpkins grow very profusely and
the ground will be almost complete
ly covered with the great yellow mon
sters, although they also grow white
AC1Ss nave OOCA OOtA pQ1A
kins and citrons growing so thickly in
their respective fields that one could
scarcely see the ground. Following
is another clipping from our Chine
paper telling of one of our pumpkins
grown at Chino.
Some Pumpkin! I'll Say 1t Isl 1873
Pounds
Chas. II. Roberts, on Riverside
Drive, west Of town, raised SOME
pumpkins this year, and if the one
in r. A. Bareuther's display win
dow is fair sample the yield was
satisfactory to him.
Mr.. Roberts, at the invitation of
the Champion man, brought in a
specimen. 1t weighs 12S pounds
and is 95 inches. in circumference.
Just how many pumpkins pies
it would make is left to the guess
ing ability of Chino Valley house
wives.
Last week we referred to pump
kin on display at the Champion of.
fee. This mammoth pumpkin was
raised by c. H. Roberts but it weighs
148 pounds instead of 12S pounds, as
announced. We apologize to both Mr..
Roberts an the pumpkin"
Beets Great Crop
The greatest output here in normal
times is the beet. sugar as we have a
large American Beet Sugar factory
here which not only employs many
men and women but manufactures
great quantities of sugar which is ship
ped to all parts of the world The
factory has been closed for the past
two years owing to the war, but it is
hoped that it will open this year.
Being closed does not mean that the
ranchers are not raising beets or
that they are not employing any hclp
as the large acreage OF beets grown
here is shipped to Oxnard, where the
second largest sugar beet factory in
the world is situated. The company