. The Howard and Wilson colony company of Madera . go pur-chased forty acres which had been leveled ready lor cultivation, and the previous ownerhad erected a comfortable but small residence on the place. He paid $175 per acrefor the property, and farmed it in wheat in 1886, cutting a large crop. In ISv he plowedunder a very heavy volunteer crop of wheat, following this up with two deeper plowings;and in 1888 he planted twenty acres in cuttings of muscat vines. Last season, from thistwenty acres of cuttings only two years old, he sold the crop on the vines to the Griflfin-Skelley Company, for
. The Howard and Wilson colony company of Madera . go pur-chased forty acres which had been leveled ready lor cultivation, and the previous ownerhad erected a comfortable but small residence on the place. He paid $175 per acrefor the property, and farmed it in wheat in 1886, cutting a large crop. In ISv he plowedunder a very heavy volunteer crop of wheat, following this up with two deeper plowings;and in 1888 he planted twenty acres in cuttings of muscat vines. Last season, from thistwenty acres of cuttings only two years old, he sold the crop on the vines to the Griflfin-Skelley Company, for .f9i*5—nearly $50 per acre. Now I have twenty acres in vines one year old; and I expect, if the season is favor-able, to realize from my raisin crop ^2,500 next year. I paid S7,000 for tlie fortyacres; and *30,000 would not buy it to-day. Mr. Humphrey is a native of New York, and settled in Fresno county as a rancher,but witnessing the almost fabulous results obtained from Iruit and raisin growing, con-cluded to embark in that line of CALIFORNIA VINEYARD IN WINTER-Adjoining the Howard & Wilson Colony A riNANCTAI. VIEW OF THE SMALL RANCH OWNER Mr. H. D. Coulson, President of the First National Bank of Fresno, thefollowing opinion, based upon long observation, as to the probabilities of success in smallfarming : I believe the raisin industry, taken as a whole, to be very profitable. Men havecome here and succeeded on an amount of capital, personal ability and industry on whichthey would have starved elsewhere. I was born in New England and know wellthe typical farmer there, all his work and all his thrift; and I say such men expending thesame work and displaying the same qualities as they do there, and withal barely scraping ^). HOWARD &. WILSON COLONY COMPANY a living together, must inevitably in this iutlustry grow rich. * * * I have yetto see the man who has come here industrious, intelligent and frugal and has failed.* * * I quite believe that a twenty
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