History of Orange County, California : with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its earliest growth and development from the early days to the present . lege, College \iew, in the samestate. On the evening of Harolds graduation, with honors, from the high school, thatis, on June 1, 1915, the Hebards left for California, and their first home was at SantaAna. The following year they removed to Riverside, and now the parents reside inSan Diego; but our subject remained and embarked in a hatchery in Santa Ana. Heestablished what is known a
History of Orange County, California : with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its earliest growth and development from the early days to the present . lege, College \iew, in the samestate. On the evening of Harolds graduation, with honors, from the high school, thatis, on June 1, 1915, the Hebards left for California, and their first home was at SantaAna. The following year they removed to Riverside, and now the parents reside inSan Diego; but our subject remained and embarked in a hatchery in Santa Ana. Heestablished what is known as the Orange County Hatchery: and it was not long beforehe made it the largest and most successful hatchery in the region. He commenced with a capacity of six thousand eggs, and the following yearraised it to nine thousand, with which output he contented himself for a couple ofyears. During the season of 1919-20, however, he enlarged the hatchery to a capacityof twenty thousand. He has both Pioneer and Jubilee incubators, and uses a heatingsystem devised by himself. He erected a hatching house, twenty-four by thirty-sixfeet in size, out of hollow tile, and has a ceiling with an air space made of building. a<i^,^. HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY 1593 paper and sawdust packing, that serves to keep the entire room evenly compactness, his incubators are arranged two tiers deep. Although hatching isthe main business undertaken by Mr. Hebard—and to that he gives his entire attentionfrom January to August—he has four hundred head of the very choicest Rhode IslandReds, Barred Plymouth Rocks and White Rocks. His hatchery is located on thefive-acre ranch of Fern S. Bishop. His five acres of walnuts are under the service ofthe Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company. Between August and January, Mr. Hebard is busy as manager of the IrvineWalnut Association, which last year handled over nine hundred tons of walnuts, whichthey eventually marketed through the California Walnut As
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