1 10 Fruit Fanning J or Profit in California. 



strumentalities of local railroads everywhere. Wlien 

 that is accomplished, a process of the steady growth 

 and expansion of the industry will have set up. It will 

 haye become organic, and, obeying the law of all 

 organism, will continnally grow. It will offer a com- 

 petition to the growth of fruits in climates not favour- 

 able to their production, which will eventually give us 

 absolute control of the markets now being supplied by 

 Eastern producers. This is true, because it is true in 

 modern economic methods, that notwithstanding the 

 distance intervening between points of production and 

 consumption, every article is being produced in the soil 

 and climate, and under the conditions most favourable 

 to its production. It is absurd to suppose that this 

 law of modern economics is not ecjually applicable to 

 the production of fruit in California, when the favour- 

 ing conditions in this State are understood, or when 

 they are contrasted wdth the unfavourable conditions of 

 other portions of this country. The very contrast closes 

 the argument. 



General farming, however profitable, can never confer 

 population. Whether true or false, it is a leading 

 tradition of general farming in this State that its 

 highest profit is derived from large aggregations of 

 ownership. These large aggregations have taken place, 

 and the tendency is constantly in the direction of still 

 greater consolidation of ownership, and consequent de- 

 population of the country. On the contrary, the in- 

 dustries connected wdth the orchards, vineyards, and 

 gardens of California have an inherent tendency of se- 

 gregation. Ten acres of orchard, vineyard, or garden 

 will afford profitable employment equal to that required 



