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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HORTICULTU 
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LOS ANOELF.9, CAL., HKFTF.MBKB, !P«1 
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be sure that it is seeded befi-t* the firet; tin 
rain comes, and be so prepared if possible F« 
after the raid ia over to < 
MORE BARLEY AND LESS WHEAT 
and 
hod farming; 
sow a lerjr*"' 
i amount of! 
I with sufficient fora 
-- (chinery ki do yoor work up 
It is a fact that this county is better I well. Too much careless slip 
adapted to raising: barley than wheat. Year | is practiced in tin* desire to 
aftcryoar the farmer has been faperimer, ting 1 acreage; beti«r put in a Ire* 
with wheat, and it has not proven vitiirfac- ground and -Jo u well than run 
lory in any particular. There may be rears «r«. t hi an indifferent manor 
when partial success attends the wheat! just as much to head an acre 
crop, but these year* are ao few and far be - 1 only ten sacks as 11 dnc« to l> 
tween that it now behooves our farmers toi that yield* double that ■> n-.int, the capital 
BtMQKifl CROP REPORTS 
drop experimenting and to sow that which 
can be relied on for a full crop every year. 
Until recently the price of nor barley da 
pended solely upon tbo San Framist •» mar¬ 
ket, and it barely paid to raise it, hut now 
wo are entirely independent of up-country 
markets, and ’ barley commands about as 
high ft price here as there. This has been 
brought about, of course, through the open 
invested ia juat as large in the 
the other; therefore the percentage i 
interest to the bushel ia double a* much i 
'iiio case as it ia in the other. These far 
may seem to some to be beneath their ti< 
lice, but on a large ranch these items slur 
would amouut to several hundred dollars. 
Fanning will certainly bear a little clue 
artful figuring, and the Urib.-i 
mg up 
of tlm Turritorles east of US. which ! inquires intelligently into nil 
vc had as 
h minus 
Th. 
little 
promise to absorb all the barley that this I min alii* ->f bis businev, and l-« L* t .■-v 
unction can produce from this time forward, avenue of rap. (>'<-• and l.-aUg.., «U-rc l. 
Not only will we continue to bate uur may save here and emtad then*, the tfi.-atvr 
present, feeding points to supply, but the will b*i his vucccm, and lb* more aahslar 
Atlantic and Paoifio railroad will gut- us | tory will be his endeavors. 
northern Arizona and northuro New Mexico | *•-- 
with tha nuw towns which will spring tip INDICATIONS OF EARLY RAINS. 
along the way. Without doubt our market,' - 
and a good one, is nsaureil for a number of [ It is very seldom that «. hi 
years, and if our [armors will only recognise early aa the month of August * - 
1 1 11 a fact and bend th< ii «nt rgies tm r# li il ild indioat 
bad) jr, they will fin-1 that thoro is some- . noticeable all around us this scmm 
thing more eonneotud with their iuduatry j violent ram *n.«nre sud < h-od l i.i’.t* 
than incessant bard lubor. Hurley may bo ' and south id us al-a disturbed »tat- 
sown much Inter in the season thae wheat, t>-n atraospbi-ic over a large extant of 
it will yield nearly double the number of country in close sympathy 
bushels to l.liu acre, it is much leva liable to respect In weather matters, 
rust, it will stand u dry season while whe.n storms have already r- inn *>- 
will utterly fail, and to turn it up, you are! Materially affect our own are 
ulwnya sum of a barluy crop, but of ■ whsat | mg and *u.,'reding thsm I 
crop you are tn'vor sure. There is no good had very little real I- t wrath 
roaaon why (Ida comity and the county of has hern u n-.ii.val.tc aim, , 
Sim iWmirdimi ahuuld nut tluutdo their ' winds uf that drying and p* 
barluy yield. | actor •*« common in * me fori 
If n choicu hniwiug grain is raised you [ The aum-phere ha* been - 
Iinvi, the Knstand Kuropo«l your door bit) ' uiiusiial degree m moi.ture 
ding for it; railroad freight rales and ocean j through, and I- r »- «ka past this 
charters will not always remain where they , lias boon penmptlbly imuvaviog 
lire now, but even with present rate* our .Wrcaving, »s U» fo'* u the • as¬ 
sn ch as to justify tha farmer in aoaaous past. There have l-..-on 
» largely into Ih'a industry. Thu ] few nights this summer in which 
The 
Wee dur 
ind there 
ged with s 
tbo seam 
(into 
going n 
lima of year is drawing near wheu ntteu- 
tion should be turned to the fall and win 
ter sowing. Procraaliuattun should never 
fall in the way of tbo farmer; alwav* drive 
your work and you will sea that it will sue 
If you have any ground that can be dry 
auwn, hucIi aa aiunmor-ftilow or volunteer, 
=sn 
weeks past thii 
creasing. In ll 
daw, i 
dew baa boa 
> ha 
in laying tho Juat on tb- 
tatiiui is visibly enlivened 
All those signs are fan-'* 
and damp fall, though th 
l;; rv cm tbe harvest at a.Oeret 
it countries 
is now batitg leaned. ’ It report 
wheat crops in Francs are thia 
year from 
over a larger area, ami oulu-ai 
la s better 
crop than last year. Thia yei 
ar barley is 
maira very ordinary; oats and r 
wheat crojMi generally the re 
port shows 
,| lr 
None of the crepe will be ter 
y good end 
n.ne very bail, ami none of the ct 
ops are aver 
fair The Sums wheaturap is 
ifltTlt 
very fine; oalv and barley, goc 
ty »nd quality, but there are 
: sown of the latter. In Hvigiu 
small uru 
m wheat is 
. far below the average; berle- 
I and oata fair. All crops tn bp 
•in are l>ad. 
A.1 .• - (.•#;» i Holland am- ii, 
good ootidl- 
. Ut/t>. Ail reports tram the l 
agree that the crape will be 
S Tun life of the nation com. 
! (ana. It re to this source thi 
li we must 
[look for our national prxwpwt 
tv. Just in 
proportion as inMJiyewM a 
spreads among them, just to 
!ltv. It is flatly absurd to as 
I rural districts remain in a » 
1 
Lucli a thing never will occur. 
I Tun flNHceaa of all be»ine-e J 
\Vhwu irwjia 
1 their grata on band »» 
' portmeot of human loduaUy fe 
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