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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 
ICULTU 
LOS ANGELES. CAL, DECEMBER. 1,-mi. 
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IS FARMING PR0FITA9LE 7 
bor what varieties h«* b«i>n thoroughli 
; tested and foontl to be beat adapted l >u<ii 
!■ soil Mil climate, The Burnt tins !.•• -n 
j of vineyard planting, and the possibility oi 
failure will figurn as a minus quantity it 
- j hi* ira*<s. Along with the Orchard and vine 
: yard come* butter, egge, potatoes, etc , mi 
, ausilariea, and fi»> argument ii 
■ needed to convince the judicious, indut 
! trioiu inan that, with our market* all in he 
»r, there i» no risk bat « liei 
This question is answered in the ,iili 
live by every rural district, yet the answer 
comes to ua with stronger umpbsri 
Mime sections than from others. 
In our August number we devoted the Uv< 
whole of tins page to an article on poiaUia*, ,n tlm profits of am nil farming 
mel advised, as lar ae we think an editor'* Again, the man who im.-.u t<, ,1*. ha- 
right.-* lends, planting largely for the late I th- advantage of the ...... wi„, , n .;.u , 
lall and winter markets. Thus* who . year henc*. Th<-eailier h« begins his nr* 
heeded our advice and acUrd Upon .t arc ..he he >*urr-cmd< d with 
now receiving •l.M per cental for their «|{ il„. profits and .■omful* wlu.-b , few 
potatoes, and emphatically declare that ,.; M ra will bring. Further... .re, ii «.11 r 
farming is protHab 1 -.. Our poultry depart • j le*g to make tiro .on today than at a..« 
' Wt ol I future time. While land t* goner ally r»-a 
" ’l price now, the tendency is up- 
* ' wtli 
ire, and «■» i 
iterial goes to 
mid carry it 
gumVlha 
id, wl.relliarr 
merit has given instruction in the _ 
fowls, especially for eggs, and those who -,,nabl* ii 
read it carefully and followed iU teaching, j ward, and'the roe ... .mue 
closely are now marketing eggs at V» cents , probably dnubln the pre.cn „n.,u a h*« 
per dozen, and they, too, declare that farm- v ,*r», an item which w.wiht justly ligure 
“ profitable rh0M • hat th. • 
alfalfa patch And two or three good cows [„ submitting then facta we do*, with a 
arc receiving DO cents a roll far butler—a j ,f Mire %U rl 0 qr reader, to think, writ 
scant two pounds —and as they vote in Ho-; kwing that the active mind will read.lv 
alhrmative, their air of satisfaction gives riuiali.m, „„| prr- ra.iinat.o'r. • 
double emphasis to the vxprewiaa: “farm ,,,|| fn ^ rt *„», *„ j a g|„ r i, m » defeat at th¬ 
ing is profitable.' Thee three branch.-* I band* of determined -tT rt 
ol I he general industry arc aulJi.-iunt So j __ 
toward* th* l 
nor* .atrreatad it 
fully illustrate the happy condition of 
class uf our producers. This may lie railed 
small farming ill contiasl with our large 
grain and a took ranclms, and it is a fact 
that is daily becoming more patent to u* 
all, that the future wealth of Southern tlali 
farm* will eventually bo found in our ten 
and twenty acre Imnn-a. There are sevrial 
causes at work bringing tills about (»oe 
is, our people are becoming more dome-lie, u. rr go t. 
anollmr might be found in the fart that i,.„, „f farmmg w.it answer a. long a 
the spirit of speculation is bring supersedud virgin fertiinr of tin- soil is not rxb*. 
by the more rational spirit of satisfaction j but altar that the farm. 
MAHURE. TOOLS AND BOOKS. :*«!• »m 
- up in the 
The barnyard is of more importance in , [he fai 
farm economy than the bouseyard, because work m 
out of it tire the unn of cmp*. It i* there mu b his 
that the manure i* made and preserved | tl„. farm 
Soma farmers have no barnyard, and they l.n»i>'*do: 
make very little manure, and .ave or pre- might km 
'oc-h farmer* roust ew»n.-r or I keeping, 
wall. The no harnyar.1 ays j earlv lam 
brod of liuirosl Industry. Again, our large j manure pile, 
landuwm.ru arc beginning to real in- tin. • ov#t..u* cyr. i* 
fact that there .* more moony in dlvid.ng I |,*rn>ar.l far |lu- 
their largn ranches Into small trai ls and j farmer, i* one it. 
eelling at present prices than to us* them for {,,|| toward* 
pasture lari.N. It i» certainty wry gratify 1 1 ,,,„ I, .. 
ing to those who rejoin* in ll.o gmnll. ami ( water tight. fl- 
* It* ag*. 
d and p 
guard it wii 
\ pro 
prosperity of tins sectiun to 
• ba I m 
md the 
yard is for 
'liquid mai 
protuiaing changes which an- now working . . . _ 
bo harmoniously for the vunnou go .,1 and from tl.o »t 
glory of u» all. The man who arrives horn abundant that tin- liqird 
to day itc.'d not mako a mistake, lie can To nrevo 1 « >.-• w*«loog . 
draw upon the i.xprricm v of those whoi rains, a cot ,*r lor tin- »*r. 
liaVfl pruomlud him ten, twenty and thirty f devuttul to tt.v* pres«rta 
years. In setting an orchard, without \ »houl.l be protidod. •'' i 
being obliged to experiment Aw the first jortly a few dollars, oi l * 
ftvi. vwara, ha at once learn* front ho neigh- ; ii|i»t year in » larger 
sorbed by it.; 
> manure by | 
