Anaheim, southern California, its history, climate, soil and advantages for home seekers and settlers . ven to this tree, hut when once the people understandthe immense profits of olive culture, and appreciate the fact that the tret-iTows and Hourishes on soil aliKost too poor to raise anything else, we mayexpect to see the olive as largely planted as the grape and the oiange. - ^Iz/K-/ifiin Gazette. Corn is generally known as the poor mans crop from the fact that thefarmer can do all the necessary work, and need hire but little help. It , one of the most profitable crops grown, a
Anaheim, southern California, its history, climate, soil and advantages for home seekers and settlers . ven to this tree, hut when once the people understandthe immense profits of olive culture, and appreciate the fact that the tret-iTows and Hourishes on soil aliKost too poor to raise anything else, we mayexpect to see the olive as largely planted as the grape and the oiange. - ^Iz/K-/ifiin Gazette. Corn is generally known as the poor mans crop from the fact that thefarmer can do all the necessary work, and need hire but little help. It , one of the most profitable crops grown, as on the corn lands of LosAngeles county the yield is heavy, and the market for some years past hasbeen very good. As an illustration of the profits of rorn culture, we maycite the case of a farmer who last year s,iM\ 1,1.)0 centals of corn from thirtyacres. He sold it for .fl per cental, a total of $1,, and his actualcash outlay was barely ^, Much better results have been obtained, liiitwe submit this showing as a fair illustration of what can be done on the cornlands of this — 31 — A Ride through the Country. A couple of years ago the editor of the Anaheim Gazette took a days ridethroughout the adjacent country; and his observations were embodied in atwo-column article in his paper. From that article we take the following per-tinent extracts: As we drive through this region (North Anaheim,) our companionpoints to vineyards planted last year in which over ninety per cent of thecuttings nourished; to orange orchards, young and old, in whicli the trees areas thrifty and clean as it is possible for trees to be; There are some verybeautiful places in N<)rth , and land there is ciianging ownershipquite often, and always at an increasei a different character from tliat pre-viously described, but is as fertile, judging from the appearance of t
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