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Show A WALNUT FARM. Pasadena, In the San Oabrlel valley of Southern California, has ptobably the largest municipal farm In the world. As a grower of walnuts, this city innks among the most extensive producers in America. This jcar's ctop, which has Just been harvested, will net the municipal treasury about $."i,000. The magnificent ranch of 300 acres which Is owned by Pasadena, Is situated situat-ed In a dip of the San Gabriel Valley, not far from where the giant walls of tho Sierra mountains rise up against the cast and north. It bears the mi-savoiy mi-savoiy name of "The Pasadena City Sewer Farm." which gives a hint of tho manner of solving a sanitary problem prob-lem that Is exceedingly vexing to cities in the arid regions. Pasadena did not go Into agriculture as a business speculation, but from a public neccssltj'. In Southern California, Cali-fornia, whereas the Jokers say, the rivers run upside down, disposition of the sewerage of a large city or town is a veiy different question from that confronting cities adjacent to some running stream, or to a large body of water. The Arrojo seco, or dry river of the Southwest, even in Its natural state, would alfoid no outlet foi drainage. drain-age. The scrupulous saving of cveiy available diop of water for Irrigation, by damming up their tilbutaiy streams, lias sapped their sources and converted them Intodiy washes, save at brief Intervals following the heaviest heav-iest showers of the rainy season. Some fifteen yeais ago the founders of Pasadena were wise enough to realle that a perfect system of sewer-Ingwasessentlalto sewer-Ingwasessentlalto insure a peimanent prospeiltyln the city. The Pacific ocean, some thlity miles to westward, and cut oil by two langes of hills, was not available for drainage. Then again, the sewage water had In Itself an intiinsic value. If used to iirlgatc the arid lands about the city, It was potent to convert them Into fertile and productive Ileitis. The pioneers of Pasadena weic of a thiifty turn, so they putchascd .100 acres of raw lanch laud, In the San Gabriel valley, and about six miles from the city, and there by means of a gieatout-fall pipe, was conducted all of the How from the sewets, and spiead upon the giottnd. Sixty actcs of tine English walnuts are planted, and the water was also used for ltilgating huge tiacts of alfalfa. Alfalfa Is jet giown upon many acres of the lanch, and not only supplies all the hay for tho horses of the citj's fire and stieet dep:irttncnts,but many tons are annuallj sold at good prices. The sixty acte walnut grove is just leaching leach-ing the full-bearing age, and this jear produced between foul hundred and five bundled sacks, which at the present pres-ent niaiket quotations, will sell for about $10 each. So profitable has the culttne of walnuts proven, that another an-other giovo of thirty acics was planted plant-ed some time ago, and Is Just now coming Into beai ing. When the old giove and the new gtove have leached leach-ed tnatuilty the city's income from walnuts will not fall far shoit of $10,-000 $10,-000 a j car. To this, must of course bo added, the value of the haj, which, If not giown, would have to be purchased. purchas-ed. The piescnt management is going extensively into the laislug of swine for the niaiket, and the present heid of 100 head Is to be Increased by 306 and posslblj COO head. The hogs are fed with coin and pumpkins raised upon up-on the ranch, and It is believed that thej will ptove as rcmuneiatlvo as the walnuts. Their number will bcllmit-cd bcllmit-cd onl) by the ability of the ranch to produce theh ficd. The sewer farm Is also a convenient retiring place for the horses that aie too old or too slow for iiNoon the Hie engines, but have In them mint) jeatsof good seivico as "countr) plugs." 'I he water cf the sevveis is as clean as a mountain stie.iiu when It has reach the faun thtough the sl miles of pipes. It has. however, a slight odot, and would bo Impiopei for the lirlgatlon of vegetables which come Into contact vv 1th the water w hen lr-llgated. lr-llgated. Los Angeles and some other cities of Southern California that have sold the flow of their sewers to tuck fanneis principally Chinamen ate continually forced to enact stringent niearsuies to pi event sewer-hiigated vegetables fiom being sold In their markets. Pasadena, by tho wisdom of its foundeis, not only controls its sewage sew-age and prevents It from being used for Improper purposes, but will, when Its ranch has reached full development receive an annual Income approximating approximat-ing $26,000 as a result of its unique ex-pcrlmcnt ex-pcrlmcnt in municipal farming. |