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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



with the world if 20,000 people found prosperity on 

 100,000 acres than if 2,000 on 10,000 acres. 



Several attractive colonies have been laid out in 

 Kern county, and the experimental farms have been 

 carried to a stage which warrants settlers in apply- 

 ing their lessons. Settlers who go there to-day will 

 have the benefit of the best instruction of experienced 

 and expert farmers. This is a wonderful advantage, 

 and the results of this liberal policy will certainly 

 justify it. 



PRICES AND PRODUCTS. 



Prices of Kern county lands range from $60 to $100 

 per acre, which includes a perpetual water right. 

 The products include everything, except citrus 

 fruits, and there are certain limited areas where 

 the latter flourish. The writer would predict that 

 the small diversified farm will be the final outcome 

 of Kern county experience, but the surplus product 

 will be peaches, apricots, olives, raisins and alfalfa. 

 A very low and conservative estimate of the profit 

 per acre from any of these sources, except alfalfa, 

 would be $100. The products of Kern county lands, 

 including the costs of growing them and the prices 

 they bring in ordinary times, were very fully treated 

 in these pages last month. 



WHERE THE STRIKE DID NO HURT. 



It was understood that the California fruit growers 

 were heavy sufferers by the recent railroad strike, 

 which was more effective and for a longer period 

 there than elsewhere. Bakersfield and its surround- 

 ing Kern county colonies are on the main line of 

 the Southern Pacific railroad. Traffic was seriously 

 interfered with there, but there was no occasion for 

 the fruit of the vine and tree to perish. Nearly 

 everything grown on these lands can be dried and 

 sold profitably at the grower's leisure. This is true 

 of the raisin grapes, the peaches, the apricots and the 

 prunes. Nothing except a drouth could seriously 

 affect Kern county, and the ditch is an insurance 

 against that calamity. 



The intending settler can obtain full particulars 

 about everything relating to home-making in Kern 

 Delta by addressing S. W. Furgesson, General 

 Manager, Bakersfield, California. 



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