with all the increase of production there has been no diminution of the de- 

 mand; rather has there been an increase in demand and a consequent 

 increase in prices paid for the farm products. With every increase in the 

 population of the farming districts of the State, there is an increase 

 of the city population which calls for the increased supply of farm products. 



Good land for intensive farming can be bought in many parts of Cali- 

 fornia for from fifty to one hundred dollars an acre. This can be had on 

 a small cash payment and easy terms on the balance, if a man so desire. 

 A small house and the other necessary improvements on a twenty-acre 

 farm, with horses, cows, and poultry, can be had for a sum that will make 

 the total cash outlay in the beginning, not more than $3,000. This farm 

 will give an active, energetic man a good living for himself and family, and 

 will let him put a good sum into the savings-bank each year. 



The expenses of a small diversified farm are small, and one is always 

 certain of having the table necessities. The farmer must have average 

 intelligence and the faculty of application. California is not a shiftless 

 man's country, and to succeed on a small farm or in any industry in this 

 State a man must apply himself to the business at hand. Many a man 

 who has not been able to pay down more than one fourth of the price of 

 his small farm has achieved entire success with diversified farming, and has 

 paid for the place within two or three years from the proceeds. Many 

 instances might be cited of such success in California. In fact there is 

 scarcely a locality in the State where they may not be found. Hundreds of 

 men in California today are well-to-do who came here with just enough 

 to pay part of the purchase price of their places and get the improvements 

 and stock. These men devoted themselves to diversified intensive farming 

 and are now considered among the substantial citizens of the State. 



There are entirely too many of these instances to attempt to enumerate 

 them. One instance will be a fair sample of them all. A prospective 

 farmer bought twenty acres of land at $100 an acre paying one-fourth 

 cash and taking the rest on easy payments. His outlay at the start was: 

 Twenty acres, $500; improvements, $2,000; horses, wagon, harness, farm 

 utensils, etc., $350; six cows, $240; six young pigs, $30; chickens, $20; 

 incidentals, $110, Total, $3,250. This man divided his land, laying out 

 eight acres to vineyard, two acres to orchard and garden, and ten acres 

 to alfalfa. Five acres of the vineyard were devoted to Tokay grapes and 

 three acres to seedless Thompsons, for raisins, and while these vines were 

 reaching maturity the six cows, together with the pigs and their progeny 

 and the hens, supported the family. 



The lima bean crop of Ventura County is commanding from four to 

 five cents a pound, with the price rising. The yield will be well over 

 500,000 sacks. 



The highest priced carload of fruit that ever left Yolo County was 

 recently shipped from Winters direct to Germany. It was loaded with 

 apricots, and its net value was $8,040.92. 



The cantaloupe growers of Brawley, in Imperial County, California, 

 sent 209 carloads of cantaloupes to market this season, at a net return 

 of $702.93 a car. There were twenty-three growers, and the net profit 

 to each was $6,387.82. The total amount received was $146,919.86. 



The pulp from beet-sugar factories is coming to be an important article 

 of fodder. A herd of fifteen hundred cattle is maintained on the output 

 of the factory at Hamilton, in Glenn County. 



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