The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1922-03-17
FORMER CRENADIAN
WRITES FROM CALF,
lells About Preparing Soil For
Orange Crop and Other Big Things
There. Lots of Children. Land
Values. Birkhead Suit Against
Governor Reaches California.

Porterville, Calf. Feb. %. 1922.
Editor Sentinel:
Enclosed find draft for one fifty TO
! pay The Sentinel.
This should have been sent some
thirty days or more ago, but | have
been quite busy since 1922 came. get
ting my orange plantation in condi-
ton to take on a new crop. Orange
farming is kinder like making cotton.
you have to work at it about 13
months every year AS soon as we
get our crop off, which is about the
middle = of November, we begin to
prune the trees, then fertilize. sub
SOIL and deep plOw, then plant a cover
crop of either melilotiS, buckwheat.
kaIe or white clover, which we plow
under IN February and then give the
trees spraying. About that time
1t Is time to sucker. and in April we
spray again and begin to irrigate and
cultivate and every time we irrigate
we have to sucker again and keep this
up TIL time to pick the crop, and
the begin all over again.-iust the
same thing year in and year out. but
guess 1t paws as we average from
to 10 big boxes of fruit to the tree
which packs from to 7 boxes, aver
trees to acre makes bank account rise
some like Grenada County Taxes.
For the past sixty days there has
been considerable excitement in our
particular nelghbOrhOod on account
OF party who was boring a we'll
about two miles south of our farm
striking oil. The Standard Union.
Associated and Sell Oil Companies
began taking leases from
every one who would sign up and al
so buying land adjoining the property
where the oil was struck. We did
not lease but will sell and our price
Is $4,000. per acre for our 5 acres,
might take right smart less. pos
sibly would.
Mrs. Latimer had a letter from Mrs.
mo. Garner few days since saying
she was coming to see us Immediately,
made reply enclosing invite for her to
,ome at once or sooner and stay as
ong as she could or longer
We live 21s miles from Porterville.
light on the paved State Highway
md often walk into town instead of
Using car. don't mind the walk as
here are nice little bungalows all
long and every one is raising some
md of fruits, chickens, rabbits,
'uinea pigs and children. Speaking
f children. we have more children
light in and around this village than
ny other place in the world of same
lze, and the keep coming as regular
5 the moon changes. We have three
chOols in POrterville that are extra
irge also three others about the size
f your school but the six could not
ear accommodate the scholars, there
ore, last summer, we took site
nd voted $365,000. for another
,hool. Out of 1880 votes the count
1Owed 1446 for and "a against the
70 bonds. The two banks here
'Ok the entire issue, paying g per
ant premium. The contract was let
st month. work is now progressing
ast and we hope to have the building
lady by fall.
few days ago while in town one
my friends handed me a COPY of
he San Francisco Examiner and
olnted to pair of pictures, a he
nd she male and asked me if I knew
1ything about them, | told him | did
OF, that | left Mississippi IL years
20 and from what read in the
lpers / did not think Mississippi had
ected real man for Governor in
lite a spell.
Yes, Mississippi is getting quite a
Nv undesirable ads in the big papers
nd to person, viewing the situation
trough a long distance monocle, it
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