Anaheim, southern California, its history, climate, soil and advantages for home seekers and settlers . ntly fed the feathers will be ragged and comparatively valueless, hencein years of famine there are few first-olasa feathers produced. It is to Cali-fornia, therefore, that the marlcet must at sometime in the future look for itssupply of Hrst-class feathers, and we are justified in claiming that ostrichculture is one of the most promising industries of Southern California. Apair of chicks, four months old, will cost say $ or .f200. The cost of feed-ing is hit a trifle, and a small corner
Anaheim, southern California, its history, climate, soil and advantages for home seekers and settlers . ntly fed the feathers will be ragged and comparatively valueless, hencein years of famine there are few first-olasa feathers produced. It is to Cali-fornia, therefore, that the marlcet must at sometime in the future look for itssupply of Hrst-class feathers, and we are justified in claiming that ostrichculture is one of the most promising industries of Southern California. Apair of chicks, four months old, will cost say $ or .f200. The cost of feed-ing is hit a trifle, and a small corner of the yard fenced off is a sutfici«»nt en-closure. Three months after the chicks are purchased the feathers should beplucked, and at ruling prices they ought to bring $20; eight months later $60worth of feathers ought to be plucked; the third plucking ought to hring.$200, the fourth plucking $400. Assuming that these ligiues are correct (andthey are based on actual results obtained in Africa) there is a profit in thebusiness surpassing that of almost every other industry peculiar to this — 31 — The Wme Industry. Wine makiug has been, is and always will be the leading industry of Ana-heim. Our light soil has been proven, by over twenty-live years of experi-ence, to be the very best adapted for the successful growth of the vine. Itwas for the pursuit of this industry that the colony was Hrst organized, twen-ty-eight years ago, and what was at the beginning only an experiment, Hassteadily advanced, year by year, in method and importance to an establishedand highly remunerative industry. During the past four or live years, espe-cially, has this improvement been most marked. The subdivision of largetracts of land and the great improvement in the water system, ensuring aplentiful supply for irrigation, has resulted in the setting out of thousands ofacres of land to vines, must of which are in bearing. The improvement in method, if we may so term it, of tliis industry
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