Show FARMING FEET BELOW SEA J. Wheelen in the Garland May Leaving Garland Saturday May feet above sea and dropping into the Imperial feet below sea Monday May i's down and while I have not yet met the red man with horns and it seems about hot enough for Four Carloads of We have just returned from an automobile ride of ninety-five in we covered a district about half as large as the state of Rhode examining flumes and controlling works of all kinds and passing miles barley and cotton seeing an asparagus field from which the owner had just finished harvesting and four carloads of asparagus this barley in stacks and the second crop of alfalfa being The Land of Big more than a dozen dairies where 25 to cows at each were pasturing in the alfalfa At one place we stopped the owner was milking sixty but does not own a mowing machine and has not fed ten tons of hay during the last four He has acres of and when one pasture gits short or he turns them into another with feed up to their eyes this going on winter and Then They harvest barley and plant cotton as soon as the land is irrigated and and will pick the cotton this thus getting a crop of barley and a crop cotton inside of twelve The valley we passed over today is as smooth as a billiard table you have ever seen tipped up on a slope of seven feet to the We noticed where some water had flowed into the road and had followed the wagon wheel track for more than a The wagon had turned down a crossroad and the water had followed the I presume it is still We passed a flock of Angora goats in a big field that had recently been clipped of their Angora In the center of the field was' a stack of and the goats had around it until it resembled an the receiver for the canal pointed out this stack to us and stated that that was the kind of mushrooms they raised so you can easily see how he got his Mark Austin is here with but stated that he was anxious to get home as he felt sure if we stayed here a week longer we never would be able to tell the truth The Salton May we took a ride to see the repairs made at the great breach in the Colorado river that threatened the valley two years' also visited the new levee now in course of The Mexicans give a grand bull fight in our honor May and Monday we leave Calexico on our homeward |