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A Truthful Woman in Southern California

CHAPTER XII
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Think of honey made from orange flowers selling at five cents a pound! A clergyman writing of Santa Barbara County says that twenty-five years ago all their vegetables were imported.

Now beans yield a ton to the acre, potatoes two hundred and fifty bushels per acre, and he has seen potatoes that weighed six, seven, and eight and a half pounds--as much as an ordinary baby; beets, seventy-five tons to the acre; carrots, thirty.

Mr.Webster once declared in Congress that this State could never raise a bushel of grain.

Corn yields fifty bushels to the acre; barley, sixty; wheat, thirty.

Others give much higher records: corn, one hundred and thirty bushels; barley, eighty; potatoes, four hundred; forty tons of squashes, four tons of hay, sixty tons of beets.
I have spoken of stock-raising.


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