472 SECOND ANNUAL CITRUS EXHIBITION 



do some one some good, which is generally a blind leap in the dark, 

 and which by accident and the grace of God they sometimes accom- 

 plish, that I almost fear to state results I myself have obtained. 



From a statement given me for publication by my commission 

 men in San Francisco — Messrs. A. Lusk & Co. — of the amount of 

 money they paid me in 1877 and 1878, which was $8,210, the profits 

 that year were over $1,000 per acre, as the orchard was less than seven 

 acres. I do not anticipate any such results in the future. Nor would 

 I wish to encourage others with such hopes; but I do believe that, by 

 growing good fruit, when the trees have acquired an age of from ten 

 to fifteen years, for all good fruit sold, a result of from $250 to $500 

 per acre, net, may be obtained. 



Consumption always increases at a greater ratio than production, 

 when transportation facilities are afforded the producer. Put this 

 down as a rule to which there are few exceptions. When men cease 

 to flock to cities to make their living by their wits, and when all con- 

 sumers in the country go to work to earn and produce something, 

 then you may fear over-production, and not until then. 



My conclusions from all the foregoing can be readily drawn. 

 From the limited area on which the orange can be successfully 

 grown, and from the fact that the consumption will exceed the sup- 

 ply by the enlargement of our markets, my opinion is, that with us 

 the orange interest will always pay more than the grape interest per 

 acre. For the State, and nationally considered, the grape will 

 become the great overshadowing interest, dwarfing in its great results 

 the orange, cereals, and bullion yield combined. I believe this will 

 occur before the close of this century. 



When all our warm valleys are planted in orange, lime, and 

 lemon, Avhen all our sun-lit hills are covered with the graceful vine, 

 pouring forth her rich treasures into the lap of the individual 

 owner, county. State, and nation, then will you have heard the last 

 murmurings of discontent and communistic threat; all this will be 

 hushed; the cry of want will give way to the notes of joy and thanks- 

 giving arising from happy homes and contented firesides throughout 

 the land ; cities will be drained of their tramp element, the laws will 

 be better observed, and society saved. 



The discussion at the Wednesday afternoon session was continued 

 by James Boyd, of Riverside. He spoke as follows, on the subject of 



IRIIIGATION. 



In speaking on the subject of irrigation, I shall speak solely from 

 a Riverside standpoint, knowing that we are met at the outset with 

 an almost total absence of information on that subject in the English 

 language, and consequently we have to fall back almost solely upon 

 our own personal experience in the matter. 



Irrigation has been practiced from the most ancient times, and it 

 would seem that in some respects we have not improved much on 

 the methods of the ancients, as in our midst we can see almost all 

 the ancient metlaods any day. We have had irrigation by hand, by 

 animal power, by water wheels, by wind, and by steam, and last, and 

 perhaps best and cheapest of all, by natural gravitation. I shall 

 speak very briefly on the subject, and perhaps its brevity may be the 

 best part of what I shall have to say. I shall speak as to the neces- 



