SXMT-TROPIC CALIFORNIA. 
devoted to fruit. The soil is generally a | removal of the railroad terminus, but we , r-o apply a* manure j>s«r »>, h ingre 
deep, sandy loam and very productive, | do nut apprehend that much trade will | as ate needed Hut utif.-.r'iir: jt<| v { 
tree* attaining full eixe in half toe time re he lost to teem, as the adjacent farming the ,tv many practical drTi.Mit.ea 
quirod in the East. The deciduous trees hand is being rapidly settled up, and the A m mil’t -t h- r •. not:1 « ; .<.. .. 
Htid vines seem particularly adapted to |new terminus ha* no fariliur-» I-r »n e»fi n- that what i» . rt'..-.,. i4 
Vernon, and a man with twenty acres of >ive settlement Wilmingti-n t-na«i* ,,f year for a rertmn rod .rod .-t>-pir, 
laud clear of debt can not only secure » aonua of the fine*! private residence* in IS#I no was the nut, and whet 
good living, hut with good management! county, although 'mfurttinut-dy limy ... •; u m i r t 1 ^ -t , 
realize a handsome ytarly profit. .Sunt? of show to advantage from th- railroad #n<l future timi- 
thf most thrifty ranahea in Vernon arc harbor. M-*»i« Hanning, M?L>utndd, Ihx *nr,> man or •* . 
owned respectively by Messrs. Jb.riek, by, Alexander, Hind.. I'.-Ihrm.i*, Van, f- M:'i.-ers, *. . ... r — th- t . 
Kntvflatje, Kfolda; Walker, Gelohel, Meade. | Valkenberg, and minv mIIxth hair heanti i.i . mt n»r.-*»»rv it.gr. -h ■ >« ' 
Shallaok, Foote, (lichardni ), ( ©Iby, Kyoer, ful I maa, sarrounden orangi 
Clapp, NfoKeo and Cargill. j and vinca. There *-.• several auhauntfai, u *» b.< which .tain -i »t 
FLoiUCWCK. I mercantile <-«t*hli*hment*, a drug atore, j pin-phori-- *c,d Hei 
. . . about twenty rxlonu*, bUckatnilh *l*p* 
Florenco district u not m .. bigh . >Uic ,.. . T b. , 
of c„lt,v„t,o„ M v.rnoc, but there ...*ly .. th. I,.rb“, . .11 
n.vortbr oss well impruvc.l hm.. tv,In,lug,MM. .Ilbuugl, ,t„- J,,, f, 
U.y, gr.m cmltru,* ,rc thr P nM,p,t ,,nv in .„ffi„V„V. tv,I S- ' 
ducts, rha hoy and gram crops are about 
half as large as last year, but tins quality 
fully twice as good. Mr. M. 1‘. Cutler, the 
leyaru 
that his grape crop will be a third larger 
than hist year. Mr. Nadeau, one of the 
principal owners of land in Florence, 
planted several hundred acres with grape 
cuttings the present season, nearly all of 
which are growing vigorously. Mr. Nadeau 
titids his great eucalyptus grove, planted 
several years ago one of his most profitable 
investments and largely supplies the Lo» 
Angeles wood market from it. Mr. K. Kan- 
ney, another progressive citizen, had an ex 
tensive nursery stock on his hands last 
year, which owing to the demand for trees 
he sold very profitably. This year ho will 
repeat the experiment, no doubt with sim¬ 
ilar success. 
COMITOJr. 
The dairy market predominates in Comp 
have been meagre and inganoient. Wil¬ 
mington ought in time to become a man' 
factoring center of coot* importance, i 
well aa the trailing point for a rich agrt.-u 
tural district. H. IS. W, 
one dust. Th 
to beep the 
those inn 
xl» Hut i 
id beat art i llr 
I Tbi* i 
easily 
' farm* 
NOTES rEOM EL MONTE 
We received some magnificent specimen* 
o( deciduous fruit* from El M on to last 
month which ahow that this, one of the old 
eat American settlements in the county, ha* i 
a nearly neglected w*urts* of wealth. Com, | 
potatoes ami barley have hitherto been the i ^ 
chief agricultural product* of the Montr, 1Ii( 
but we believe that twenty acre* in pear, 1 fiJI 
plum and peach tree* will yet prove to be | l4 
a greater bonanza than grain field*, with; c j, 
their uncertain crop* and price*. »l, 
Many of the bavannaq and El Mont* m , 
farmers are raising hog*, and the high j ^ 
have considerably decreased the 
l apply 
Ilia i 
i due* 
• crthlna rubbish by I 
hints before it is app 
Nest, to manurino 
•ropa. Intelligent »gn 
imp* aa first, enrtehi 
i» and gram, «tt | 
crop*, aa gram rip 
th, very vxhausit 
•n, hemp* hop*. • 
sitication may be 
low-rooted, quid 
n exhausting on 
lly and 
almost 
. . ■ price- - 
ton, and the cheese factories of Messrs, stock of hog* in the county. The Ariro 
Harshrnan and Itullis arc the life of the markets aro our best rustomers and every 1 1 .. ( . 
settlement. Large, herds of cattle supply „cw mining ramp started is an additional . 
an abundance of milk, and Compton j outlet. m 
cheese now has an established reputa* _ - 
lion in all part* of the Pacific Coast. ' TQ pfiESEHVE THE FERTILITY OF THE $0,1 n . 
The alfalfa fields of Compton arc the nui;*t _ , 
in the county, and the farmer*, after (Wed I ^ Thompson, State Grange Ler t l„ 
ofliaytcisell»tLosAi,gfli*sund|\\ ilmii.gtim. | , , 
The’water supply t* unlimited, artesian , Grange, June .nth. u. thr eour.e ot 
well* flowing constantly upnu ilnval every ^ as report**! in the lL*d*,i>d City l '<"•», ln> v 
plant food;lei 
but prvpot|an 
s fertile for tv 
[>a. Hence an in tall 
inting of crop* is 
tanee. Hut unfortui 
on >-r *1- 
• • , 
*ur soil and coma'* 
• An. Uw 
‘tbsfcftfMty of “our 
■oil, is (one 
1 1 ed fall* 
11 t’ 
ranch. There are several mercantile e*»ab- j N 
lisluncnts, a hall and aohuolhuusc, lumber 
yard mill railroad depot. 
wu.titatimM*. 
Wilmington is tl»» principal seaport of a 
vuat area of country, and in it' on mediate 
vicinity has thousand* of acres of the tin.-t 
agricultural land in the county- l'h« rail 
road conqmiiy is »t present engaged in 
extending their track from thia town, which 
lint* heretofore been their terminus, to San 
I’odro, a point in some respects in 
vunient. This alteration will be completed 
some time this month, but will not, we 
understand, materially cheapen the coat of 
transportation, as the lighten* will for *01110 
time vet be necdeM between the railroad 
wharf"and the anchorage, for deep water 
Vessels. The people of Wilmington hair 
feared serious injury to their town from the 
Some soils seem so rich 
that they require nothing 
watering—tillage—to trontm 
an indefinite period. Such are some 01 
rich bottom lands of the Western St" 
and such 1 oeusider someol our own ad 
and 1 alley land*. I t***p ami UtOiV 
tillage wilt fur a long time produce g 
crops on such win*; hut even «M» such 
prudent farm 
some respect* more con- tivi heavily without resoi 
... -* ficial means to preserve t 
first among ibesu stand 
» fort 
And; 
apply 
anuring Man limy *'* 
iF benefit, first, by improving the j alternate 
physical condition of the soil; second, t>y , ning. t 
acting as solvent*; and third, by entering , h’ca.ity, 
the plant* a* direct nutrition. Were »H, *k* 
manures of the latter class, then it might be (hsustiou, 
poasiblr, by analyzing the ash of any iiop.j plntvlv u 
and tt t* practically am 
ithin the reach of all our f 
