SK \fj.TR (>/'/(' ( V! /,/ FORMA . 
glgrifullure. 
LOS ANGELES COUNTY, 
By Jims It NHiRi.rx. 
I N compliance with your request, I again 
undertake In contribute to the public 
store "f tile knowledge of Southern Cnli- 
furuin. By Southern California is infant 
Hie six sunthci innoht rmiutu-ii of the Stuff}. 
The county of Los .Vugcbi. will be cxclu- 
sivi lv (lie subject fur file present , the 
other counties nt another time. 
■ 
corn, pumpkins, fruit*. etc. The cap,. M <i uf* j ■ r e< iv per dax r,-| 
I bililirw of this Volley were profusely illu- ners pm -In fur u '.) s ,•. 
■ tin toil nt the Lim Ang. |en animal i\poxi-, lolnl nuintint * i ' t |.r ■ r* 
liun of October, Iff?!!. Thousands of I lie ofTnl uf ih.-.lurx f<db. ! - 
visiloi » will testify, with me, of tliosi increase of tin Ler i add u. lh< 
illustrations, as follows: Alfalfa from the Hogs, as an adjtMri, p.., I .tur 
vicinity of Santa Ana, 10 fed high, John alfalfa dairy than with nnv <,*hsi 
Doyonnev, exhibitor; an apple, the Gloria | t'ln- hop thrives on nlfnlfa no, ..m,» 
Mundi, from tin Minna vicinity, 16| inch# 1 the m . ..n y ,,f . ..ai.. !. „f n„. ,; 
in pit Hi Si* rnrii-tii-H <if full and winter |'ff>U, mid of the » In q. f. • ? 
apple* and good ramiiis, by J. M H.'illa i I airy .fur h f. , ,| j i.,, 
day of Santa Ann. Holden Ru-setn, Full | peiiMihh | r- n >|iu-ii> « .,f th< , 
Pippins. II inches in girth; Hen Davis. -illu, in lulditiou to th. i.t 
in it......... »._i..... 1 11 
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1 ill* ti 
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in i 
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Hfchs- 
me. 1 13J inehes, llaiurn Kinder pnorn, 114 
I shall not in this pnpei give details of inche?*; Itmim* d \itjou, l*i tnche*; Winter hod management A If ■■ I f -> 
tin-Mimuin industries iihniu the bcui h-liru 1 '* indies . Unwell ptni'H altwi, profitable ,„| pi H |ii< t of • ■■,» 
ioh Angeles county, a itch us the I (ft’npes, uliawlterries, chestnuta and nl b> Hu. daily cow it m, -i pit 
, tlio eryetallirmg of Hilt by Dolarernp- mniuls, all liv the Ihv. lidicrt Stroti;: Ii/ed. Alfalfa i» to be p • ■: ■ it 
n», the keeping of hotelii fur x inil-or* ^ ciffmitiKlfir. lclloly ruin, It meins soil products, n . much nil ■ 
ill addition 
uli'iidy given, art- fii 
b*it lonnagciiiPlit 
po-it. 
in.I tin 
the 
of Lrm 
eiil'M, tL. .... ..... „ v 
oration, the keeping of hotel* fut xisiUnu 
who Meek a summer climate much cooler 
than the -iimmei climate of the Atlantic 
beach, and more eq liable and somi-w hat 
milder in winter tliau the w inter climate of 
Florida er of .Southern Europe Neither 
give details of the maritime commerce, of 
which Wilmington i» the principal port; nor 
of the interesting probabilities of the juao- 
ticnJIy incalculable expansion of that man- 
time commerce to follow the completion id 
Uig four tintmeanfi denial railways now 
loading for Sou thorn California. Neither 
give the deluilM of how I.vs A ugeles coiiiitv • . -■ . - .. 
and Siuitlierti California are on the eve of I,lll,, h oj li. |{. Hayne 
an era of city building on a magnificent '* n ' n . . ' 1 " 
».f our vnll 
HtfHt Iifiihl t 
r\ , nr*'l 
i 1 V lift 
11 v | ■'■■Jill A 
prv frm d t 
I'll (111* 
o other 
■ 
•m arcioinl 
of Mm 
scalu. 
itecediog from the beach of tin- Parifio 
Ocean hoU Dll county uf r.os Angeles, one 
uosHeu Miuoolh, rich me mi or fuhle landn 
of limited olevatiuu. On these moans, 
Klieep-walks spread away from igyir the 
line of high ocean tidi . Luxuriant wheat 
and barley fields billow «n from near the 
limit of Htruiiiliug ocriau billows. Now 
that bin ley ban beeono b -n profitable on 
certainty ,ii a crop na on Acmtiol 
constant ami rapid growth and 
lv nutiitiouH qunlitiiw. It, 
The nec* S-UIMI of alfalfa i* .. 
steady a- the ntn'reboii of intc-i 
invest,mini in alfalfa-priHtuein 
regular in it* returns n- It .4 
Staten bumlM.” 
- — *- ■ .'i * * 
long; popcorn nearly double the usual 
size of ear; ebnfa and canary seed, by f. 
W V 1 ,'liable, near Oowney. S joimpkin, 
weight l HI poo mis avondupois, by .1 J{. 
Tnieman near Downey, Hubbard ipiasb, 
a pumpkin ? feet in girth, weight 1T.7 
pounds; umber eaim, first crop, 15 feet 
high; m fond crop, 12 feet high; Egyptian 
coin, all by J. F, Dnrixdl of FloVenee. 
Nursery trees both deeidm.os and cifrnn. 
plums; all by fi. D. Compton of Comp 
I" 11 . Fine display of fall and wilder ap¬ 
ples by Joseph Kirk of Artesiu, grown on 
the ranch of li. It. liiiynr-x. A cheese, 
w ight ItiO pounds, by IF AJucbudo and 
H, J. Vulez, of Ifalloini. 1'lie Itulloua 
valley is in m»me places similar lo the 
vnlli v of alfalfa, corn, etc. Returning to, „ ,,, 
I. 1 ip latter valley out- hnds Hud alfnlfu i-j ib(H jduee I d.all is..-- on w.m . 
thu most profitable soil product, nml the illusti atirnis brought t..g. ihn a tl„. 
dairy IS tho moat profit,af.le inrdium I lirough I Exposition, 
which tu convert alfalfa into mnnov ln^ n " 
or its 
’irpnsvong- 
■ver fads, 
me nnd as 
•t, and the 
land is as 
III I'nlUsl 
oiAvnii uaovtjv m> vixtvms. 
Leaving the valley of alfalfa, corn. ■ tc 
one gysutlyfU'crnds as I,, a.lvai . is nd.ind. 
and is soon upon Ho. licit of plains val- 
leya mid m( was wheieoii are f xa. trig, let 
ill., I- niton's Sulphui ! 
AunllPilll Ulld Orange I'lie •.range gnocs 
and Tiuyyanla of the* belt or. |«... » airly 
known to require iv. n . .ui-.i no, r, 
few 
... oj. Tliirn was a Meditertutiran - <vv t o. >n 
support of these two propositions, I ml- | m *. ou. vc.rohllad Mo ,, 
doec. tho result of an interview with the old i.mt.V f*. t |„,.|, - n c >Vll, 
--- . . . . . ,,ou ;. "• Venuhlc, a Kentuekian, nt j bearing Lhree orange, four otlo n having 
llnau me/.an, iu CoriHdpif tiec of lower pricGB j ® l,r '"ue a tiiBUilwr of the California la tnUn off, ., N o. I 
for Hu- gram, wheat is becoming more '^“tuie, and now the ilicumlaiil uf th. J May, on a stui k -• veral yem old, 7 f. . ; 
piofilalilo, through better adapted varin 'mpartiuit ™'of '1'ax Vssoaxor for Im> high, t irielit-in girtl. hIim i,,ni. 1 ;i,.s 
ties And nidi ..s,(;i,.i.i., ..., 01 1 ,.| Angeloa county. Mr, Veuublo in a ]mrtnrr| yeur; one tlirve yeai old m,.ogi- 1 • - 
prufilahh', through better adupted 
ties. And still more profitable are likely 1 "'" “““V• >vuuimu in h |inmm 
to become t,be m ar-on an no s.w, now llnil "" ul,ll| h‘ dairy near Dow ney. Mr. j five y ear old oraii.;. . . lii f.. t t,, », 
f Kltiifcl l 1 fldivnnvl I La ...1 ... I «'( 11 i'll A V till* rttlir V tanlliaii ' • * • »• 
• " * ’ »* 11 • 1*1 m ' nciir-un un m»^W } nuw LliiM urm ihhviiiij. »il 
r, Ernest T. Oennmt, the vr lcnm beet r, 'ei,ev, t In otlir-r puilner, attend* per- 
ignr tnonufnotuier of the I rut, d Slat. , 1 F "'"dly t" the business I will now let 
vs ordered las t sugar works from Uer-1 ^ T- '" u, 'blo do Hu* talking This gelle 
««.o r.% 1 .*. ... man *nid "Forty uen of alfalfa will 
atigAr 
has oniarctl beet MUgnr . . 
tnaiiv to ho pnl up in Loh Angolca riinuty, - . .. ..... 
mid IK making contracts for vagat beeb»,' "wi'daiii eighty COW* the year through, ..... .......... . .. 
And jih winter■planted crops on tl„ ..|. menus ,l ' oiihIuuI. and cnptiiiis flow of by tin « i.iir>. 1 vtum. • »pl„ 
come to perfection without irrigation, it is ru '“ ,- he,-e and butter, yi- bbng milk f.u n , ... and Miuootbm , el tl 
Mtmngly suspected Hint the migm la-et l ' > , ‘ """'He' In He ye„i from each cvy. i„, | |,. v Im l ,b 
which Oiiol.t 1 .. Iu. .,i...,i„.i *i .. . Hot in older to iraeli tliesi resuIlM, th. cm cxlulsition. though 
inches girth; altogether, ir 
were sennit.en varmtir# of 
four of lemons all the dis| 
llToliard«n, \ t o , uf I - ' 
The llouiib pruning di 
th 
ills!' 
•t F 
• Uv 
u hich ought to be pi tuti<1 then in Jan-, .... . 
"my, may eventually convert if..* n.-nr l ’"" 1 1,1 uiiifiitnily what i-. called aur.n.sth. ti„c 
Ocean mens into a «mh» of florin liing : "" M, '"d of alfalfa loitst , „f „. .ll».rn o-d 
Flalioiatc tests ought til ,,ot '"IO f hw gimind, it uuul I..- nnovn i In nm-tlo 1 disi l i. 
v t.liiMiiii.* i- 1 finil fml, mioml itiitl • .«r. i-.iI., .. ...... 1 i ! (' \ 
ida, 
one 
find ti< 
• m th 
•ngiir cMtuUw. 
deep, thu* tern 
warm liuinid . 
notulf naallou of vapor > 
•ip 
i’ll i > 
of 1 
M, ,1 
■it ne 
itvrr 
• Con»lT|IICIlt 
III Hoi po|\i,| 
• .. - Ini*'lit heal us 
"lie of I lit. chemical results ,.f cpltdi.-nsttlum. 
and withal the .piick geriniiratlou of augur 
, .. rli'ttji 
i/«d soil, the ( volution of Ininut |'„.at 
ilig as Hi*' soil is by nature Mannoi or 
raiidei II iv of ollici funi. , c plant, mav 
mu x» Ha ll"W of iriilH, biitaihdl. hay ~tim- 
nlatcn Hu, flow of milk only m a has 
lei 
n ,aiinuuou oi sugar "my m 
I'cel setsl planted in January, and the "Cgiee Ilian the , ltniunlinniy d> 
ulrudy, rapid growth of the bent. ; which grinsn alfalfa stimulates tin Mow 
'nr. vm.r.tv or M , rAllF4 Lf| fftl ( n K rc<,H * imhI «n>«'0K all y»a, 
. . , , 1111 ilaii v season is r \>n 11 \ as long as t he 
; T i.assmg iidat" over th... I year. At !» cent- a pouud, th- ,.r. «■id 
„ U.lv ' 1 K f," ' 1 ? MC<,, t‘i S ,l " ’ "ncmimotlly low price of el.e.^se, the o 
inu.ly flat bottom,...-(I valley of alfalfa,fimouie of o„r band of .. uv . . 
! all ( ightci ll , 
"I ilige ruvit. 
RiOlith^ 
< 'll ^ Il 
i'Hil <*ii n 
I 
a 1 aabiin Icn 
tH 11 t ll w 
1 A . ... 
1\ itiout It* 
a lit. ye,»r "I 
• I 
•i fVK'l N 
high, and 1 
|||C 1 44 H 
in girth. 
mange, ti re 
III gilili Mr 
veals old IU Jilt* 
ilili.riiit.i ill . 
Mivsu-anmllv 
- old 1 
!■ •» (I ,.■(!*' 
rfitl mi u 
at trv. 
tu-f* 
I'M b 
f. et 4 i 
A MU 
t, a twei.lx- 
livi v i o >>td 
• Hang, root, It lovlies in polb ill cvlul. 
it.'l by tin* Cu-(i|Mii«lir> Nurvir* ii.l 
Fllllt I ItllJpa IIV of Lo \lea I. - |Y ei'.s 
V Harry, Manc.i It ,, Mr. (• 11 
vyliu (xInbttwl tho H po»t ornd • ti»>* 
