. The American Legion Weekly [Volume 4, No. 50 (December 15, 1922)]. a. He gets four cut-tings a year from this field. It makesup into sixteen stacks, with an aver-age of forty-seven tons to the men complete the cutting alongabout the middle of November. He hasin his stacks some seven hundred andfifty tons of alfalfa. Stock men willbring their cattle and sheep to Brownsranch and feed them themselves dur-ing the winter, and pay Brown $10 aton for his alfalfa in the stack—a grossyield for the year of $7,500. Last yearthe stock men fed eight hundred headof cattle and 2,800 head of sh
. The American Legion Weekly [Volume 4, No. 50 (December 15, 1922)]. a. He gets four cut-tings a year from this field. It makesup into sixteen stacks, with an aver-age of forty-seven tons to the men complete the cutting alongabout the middle of November. He hasin his stacks some seven hundred andfifty tons of alfalfa. Stock men willbring their cattle and sheep to Brownsranch and feed them themselves dur-ing the winter, and pay Brown $10 aton for his alfalfa in the stack—a grossyield for the year of $7,500. Last yearthe stock men fed eight hundred headof cattle and 2,800 head of sheep offBrowns crop; they did all the work andwere glad to do it. You will be impressed with the factthat Brown has the best alfalfa in theValley. He has trees in his yard and asoft green lawn and flowers, and hisartesian well will flow 1,350 gallonsto the minute when it is wide open andrunning through his irrigation ditches,and all around him presses in the sage-brush desert, the dry, hot burning des-ert that would be like Browns wealthy DECEMBER 15, 1922 PAGE 5. Left, a pano-rama of theWhite Bluffs-Hanford tractbefore takingthe water , whathappens whenthe settlerheeds the how-dry-I-am callof the landand gives it adrink. Atright, ShawnKelly, andthree Kelly-ettes takinglife easy onthe back stepsafter a dayswrestle withnature acres if it had water on sunup to sundown almostthe year round dirt farmerswill appreciate that Brownand his men dont turn a handuntil the first of March eachyear, when they start irriga-ting, and close up shop for thewinter early in November. The project manager willtake you to the ranches ofother old settlers where thereare wonderful orchards of ap-ples — Yellow Transparents,Winter Bananas, Jonathans,Delicious, and so on—and vine-yards of Flame Tokay, Con-cord and other kinds of grape,European and domestic. One growerhas thirty varieties, some of the kindthat grew in the Champagne country ofFrance, and along the Rhine and t
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