toes grow in plenteous abundance, and the early crops are sent out to 

 supply the demand in other localities, and then the dealers buy at a less 

 price the crops of other localities for home consumption. Beans, cabbage, 

 cauliflower, onions, tomatoes, celery, beets, radishes, cucumbers, in fact 

 anything in the cereal or vegetable line that will grow anywhere else, will 

 thrive here. In the way of citrus fruits, suffice it to say that it is the home 

 of the orange, the lemon, the grape-fruit, while the grape, the berry, the 

 deciduous fruit are also grown in abundance. 



Irrigation is necessary in many places, but there is water in sufficient 

 quantities to meet the demand. In numerous instances the crops which 

 were garnered had no moisture except that which the earth retained after 

 the rains of the winter, and the yield was satisfactory in every respect. 



Truck-farming is remunerative, and the men from the Orient are not 

 slow to grasp the opportunity thus afforded. Here the vegetable gardener 

 is in his element, for no sooner does one growth diminish than another 

 takes its place. In short, this is the land of perennial seedtime and harvest, 

 and the table has something fresh from the garden every month of the year. 



The possibilities are greater than people living remote frorn this favored 

 region can understand, greater than even those who have lived here for 

 years fully realize. It does not take a large tract of land to occupy 

 the time of one or more men in its cultivation, nor is it a prerequisite to 

 till a quarter-section in order to make a living. I call to mind one man 

 fiving in the El Cajon Valley, a few miles east of San Diego, who cleared 

 forty dollars a day on his strawberry patch during the past summer. 

 He has two acres under cultivation, and he was compelled to hire assist- 

 ants to harvest his crop. Out in that same valley hundreds of Indians find 

 work gathering the grape crops, and this valley is but one of the many in 

 this county where like conditions may be said to exist. 



In the city limits of San Diego there are thousands of bearing fruit-trees 

 and vines. Oranges, apples, lemons, grapes, figs, olives, quinces, and many 

 other varieties of fruits are grown, and a little garden will keep a good- 

 sized family supplied with all the vegetables they can possibly use. 



I have not gone into the subject generally. It is too large to attempt 

 to describe in an article of the length at my disposal. Instead, there has 

 been enumerated some of the products of the soil of San Diego County, 

 ft is not improbable that there are numerous omissions, and I would make 

 amends by saying that if there is anything in the fruit, cereal, or vegetable 

 line which has not been specifically named, it can be grown in San Diego 

 County. It is a far cry from cotton to chestnuts, yet both are grown in 

 this county; and speaking of nuts calls to mind the fact that nearly every 

 variety known to man is produced here as abundantly as other crops. 



INTENSIFYING SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY 



J. 31. EDDY 

 Secretary Stockton Chamber of Commerce 



SAN JOAQUIN consists almost entirely of cultivated land. Out of the 

 total area of 873,600 acres, 871,165 acres are assessed. This indi- 

 cates that the land is used. But the kind of use has undergone a 

 material change in the past few years. In 1899 San Joaquin was the 

 leading county of California in the production of wheat, barley, and 

 rye, and possibly hay. It then had only 1 ,966 farms, of which 699 were less 

 than 100 acres in extent, while 414 were over 500 acres in extent. The 

 progress of intensification through subdivision may be shown by the fact 

 that there are now 2,554 farms of less than 100 acres, and 4,184 separate 

 farms exclusive of island tenancies. 



The wheat-fields are being converted Into vineyards, orchards, gardens, 

 and small dairies. Alfalfa hay from irrigated land is displacing grain pro- 



