| Show I A FERTILE ACRE ACREA 5 A California render reader sends lIons nis n a noto nota flOt from tram the San Francisco eo Call In which tho tile wonderful performance of at Samuel C deck Cleek on an nn acre of at ground Is detailed Air Mr tr Cleol Cleek tiled died a n time ngo ct or old 01 1 age and his imla fertile aero acre Is 15 now helm run runby by hy hubs hili wife who survives him Title This farm farni Is a 1 most t remarkable example of what can nn bo 11 accomplished through It Ir itI I timid and Intensive le cultivation of tha Iho soil Foil all Mr III Wright tool took an nn of oC What It U contained every eer foot toot of or time the acre farm Is la utilized Hero here Is what IH Is on time tho farm at lit time tho present time Cottage lInd porches 30 by 30 Q feet bain baum corral ni n i Including etc ele 75 by hy 75 7 feet windmill towers 10 by hy 10 16 feet feel each cachi gar liar garden den 40 by hy 01 Di feet patch lii la laby by 90 VO feet teel strawberries 65 05 by b JO VO feet Ceel Citrus nursery ery HO 50 O by b OS feet teet In which there thero are budded bud orange trees a 11 arow arow row of ot dewberries along time tho fence felice by 2 feet tooti four foum apricot trees two iwo oak trees pencil trees hg trees 10 lU locust trees l trees trues ono erie tree Ilee tour four bearing trees 30 St rose bushes 20 0 geraniums 13 n lemon 11 trues years IRr old a limo lime tree Iree front from which was sold year dozen limes eight bearing orange orano trees five dye trees six beds of ot violets six lx by two Iwo feet teel ouch each ono olIc patch of ot bam baumm bamboo 1 boo bor ono boil bed of ot Hilton four tour six trees 14 of or bees hee four Cour hug grapevines one boil bed of ot sage page one olle seed bed bI besides beside and ninny limn rare In 1877 1177 Mr leek Cleek purchased Ills imle acre acme of ot laud land In time the corner of or H it dusty glaring Hold of ur stubble It was sas a uc big wat eat Held from which time tho crop had ha 1 been heen Just Juil cut cui It was vas wo remote from flom dwellings and was about us uma barren and uninviting a mc Ii upon which lu to a mc homo as can be bo Imagined There was LIs no running water waler waleron on the tho place tumid from May until Nov No November ember rain rilin docs dOCH not omit usually fall al iii although though in tho time winter tune time time the rains mills are generous I Mr Ir Clock had hll 1 but bul a 1 few dollars Inel the tho homo home he lie built buITt sae Mrs leek Cleek says only a u very small room roomI He I Is 11 It loch deep well and un 1 being handy y with tools erected a n wind windmill milt mill which operated a n homemade pump Crusoe did not de tIe more on Ills imia desert did Samuel Cheek Cleek on his Ills dusty nero nore It it if stubble At the time time tUne ot or Mr decks Clocks ho Ito left I tt almost 1000 Mr Mm desk Cleek Will was ill al lit times then too he was always anxious to reinvest t time tho profits of ot hi imla hili unique acre utere It Beonis ns as If It nearly every cery community ity call lt C show simO n a man who line has dono done won wonders tiers ders on 10 a u 1 small garden spot elIot Tho The crop may bu hu or lions liens or fruit but bul bulby by handling his hl Place MO so thai every square foot toot counts time the man has hils been able to support himself flIRt more Sometimes he hI does doe actually lends money to neighbors or who work vork 10 Union as Its fl much macli land as a he hue dos It la lagood I good these o timings things They rimey show farmers what can call de cle done clono It Ir tIme the roil noil Is III handled Intelligently They Timey alto also go to prove NOVO what most moat of ot us know that wo we 1 usually try to 10 work too much laud land The Time result Is that little If it any of oC It H Is properly handled bandied anti of ot course we 0 fall fail short of at full tull crops Now No that labor labur Is la ao o hard to 10 find many mommy of ut ui us II would be he far Cor better heller off to 10 put a 1 good share of ot the Iho farm tarm Into Inlo or or orchards amid crowd rowl our work and man manure manuro uro ure upon uon the thc best hest porte parts of tho time farm arm |
