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Show The Homo Acre. i .Ll. , , , M 1 Hon. Willlum E,. Smyllie of Los AugeU'B, Oal., gives an agcount In Max well's Talisman of a visit he made to a , oue.ncro farm owno J by a Mr. decks, who lives at Orhiud, .in Ulenn County, Cat. Mr. HmythesnyB: "Mr. Clucks tells mo that ho has 110 dllllctilty whatever In making a comfortable com-fortable living from this 0110 nere ot liri- gated laud, Not only so, but ho Is able to save an averagu of four hundred dollars dol-lars n year hcalde. He has money to loan, as well as fruit, vegetables and poultry products to sell to thisa who are getting pooier every year In carrying carry-ing 011 big fauns without irrlgutiuu. I was. so anions to know bow lie could get fitch results fiom so email nn nrea that 1 askid him to give me a list o what the pUce contained . ttce It Is: "Ihtru and.corral flnnce, 7o"o. f.et. labiil hutuli, 23x2 lout; house anil poichiw, 80x30 feet 1 two windmill towers, tow-ers, 10x111 feet eauh; gaiileu, 4,0x04 feet; blackberries, lUiUO feet; straw bar-'rles, bar-'rles, 60x00 feetj cltrm nutntry, OtfxVS bet, in which there ate 2,300 trees c budded; one row of dewberries, 100 I Ifeel long; 4 apricot trees; 2 oak trees; ' kpiBulitrepsf.O'.llg irefis; 10 locust I Tr&ipM?it nwortct roses; 20 assorted ( gerMiiIuiiis; 12 lemon trees, bearing, t which are seven yeais old; lime trie, , nine yeHrs old mid bearing, fi out which were o'd ICO dor.en lluifH; 8 benilug orange trees; 4 breadfruit trrts; 6 ' pouiegraiialo tres; one pnlch of bntu- ' boo; 3 cat I a lilies; 4 prune trees; 3 i blue gum trees; U cypress trees; 4 t gtnpe vines; 1 Kugllsb ivy; 2 honey- ! suckles; 1 seed bed; one violet bed;l ; (nge bed; 2 tomato vines, 13 stands of bees, ! ": , - 'M in n .i...... |