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Show MILFORD IS IDEAL MARKETING POINT We sometimes wonder i the farmers far-mers of Milford valley, realize and appreciate the many advantages Ihey are enjoying. We will just enumerate some of them as they occur to the outsider. Market There is no ordinary crop or product that may be grown here that, cannot find a ready market. In fact Milford is the best located farming community in the state. Los Angeles, with her ever-increasing population, is of easy access, and is bound to demand more and more of our products as the years go by. While farmers and fruit growers in less favored localities must haul products pro-ducts many miles to the railroad, the Milford farmer just loads on the cars by a fifty-minute haul. It is a serious seri-ous thing to ihave to cart fruit vegetables vege-tables and dairy products miles and miles to the railroad and then get no more for the product than is paid for like stuff raised right by the track. It costs money and time to cart stuff to the depot. Soil Milford soil is as good as any soil and will produce as well as the best. Water Milford is blessed with an abundance of water this year and if it has plenty for a year of short rainfall rain-fall like this, it is not apt to ever suffer from a shortage. A portion of the valley Is watered by gravity water wat-er from the large storage reservoir above Minersville, while the entire floor of the valley is underlaid by a vast lake of water which appears to be inexhaustable. This body of water is only from 10 to 20 feet below the surface of the ground and! supplies water for many wells which at the present time are irrigating quite an area of land devoted to farm crops. The surface of the body of water lies at such a depth that in two years alfalfa al-falfa roots reach moisture and seldom sel-dom require irrigation after the second sec-ond year, but continue to grow and produce crops' year after year. To be sure, the above paragraph does not apply to every acre of land in the valley, but. to quite a large acdeage yet undeveloped. Cropsi Aparently, in order of their importance we would say alfalfa al-falfa hay, alfalfa seed, potatoes, dairying, grain, hogs, vegetables, etc. The above advantage will in the near future be more thoroughly appreciated ap-preciated and when they are, Milford will experience a genuine influx of settlers such as it has never seen. They are destined to come soon. |