Show ESTS SMALL FARMS WONDERFUL CROP RESULTS FROM A SINGLE ACRE OF GOOD IRRIGATED TED LAND instance of a man who makes good living and lays by kour hour hundred fullers a Vt year arii no acar t car of crouth or I 1 allure WILLIAM 3 SMYTHE the sacramento valley of call furuli Is a land of big farms arms ill vate ate estates ruu run all the way arm one thousand tu to one hundred acres it was ua profitable table to lanu farm bast a reas lu in grain although this valley is blessed with alos must t water supplies irrl nation Is not generally empl employed oyed there is little rainfall rala fall from may alay to Nove niber yet grain and deciduous fruits lire aro grou without artificial ing conditions are superior even to those of southern california there lucre is a great future for this southwestern southwest eru corner of america and it will fit some day bo be peopled as extensively as its wonderful ruins show it to have been unknown centuries ago HOW THINGS GROW IN THE SOUTHWEST SOUTH WEST UNDER irrigation moisture dut but the big biff farms are not prosperous they lire are largely cultivated by tenants nud anre strangely devoid of features which make the true southwestern mouths ostern farm ono one of the most delightful homo hoine spots in ili the world the men on the land sell all ail they produce and buy nearly nil all they consume and ana so they pay tribute to others going and coming I 1 have been visiting a farm in the sacramento valley which consists of ono one single acre of irrigated land and which makes a better homo home rind and larger net income for its owner than many of his neighbors enjoy on places of thousands of acres each cadi tho the little farm Is tit at orland in glen county and Is the property of a man named samuel clocks who has grown old and gray while tilling it for the past thirty years mr clocks tells me that lie bo has no whatever in making a comfortable for table living from this one acre of irrigated land not only so but ho be Is ablo able to save pave an average of four hundred dollars a year beside lie ile has money to loan as well ns as fruit vegetables and poultry products to sell to those thoe who tire getting poorer every year in carrying on big farms without irrigation I 1 was so cli curious rious to know liow how lie bo could get such good results from so small an area that I 1 asked him to give me n list of what the place contained here it Is ON A SIN SINGLE OLE A ACRE C R barn end and corral space 7 5 x 7 1 feet 1 labbit hutch 25 s x 2 and 10 30 am 2 windmill towers ench jr los vi I 1 e 1 46 x P I 1 lox 10 x 00 straw bf rals 07 x PO 00 citrus nursery in bilich there tire anro or tinge lemon and aline trees treca 00 x 08 arow 1 row of dafft berries RK feet long 4 apricot 2 unk trees 3 reach trees I 1 6 fig trees 10 locust trees 30 20 assorted roses 20 0 assorted geranium 12 lemon trees bear liti seven years rears 1 alime 1 almo tree nine nin years rears old and henring from rom which wore were sold last beur dozen limes 8 cbearing orange trees 4 1 G pomegranate trees 1 of bamboo icalla 3 calla lillies 4 brune trees 3 heliin oum gum trem trees 5 cypress trees t grapevines 1 ivy 2 boney suckles eseed 1 coed bod bed I 1 veolet bad bpd asage 1 anre bed 2 tomato vines villes 13 stands stand ot of bues buca ETIA EKA OF TUB THE SMALL PW PAI time was whon tillman alip arlio hall had said that a living could bo be inar from acres much loss less a iliin lf libre would have been consid considered ored a droemer or a greenhorn NOM nm however nil all through tit alie S in groat sec sections tiong of I 1 biml arl 11 here the sun film Is warm tile poll Is dopp nil and for forille and tile for irrigation ample little darins tur aro milking making for their owners more enjoy anni v than many of tile lie ills ones two three five and ton acre tracts cloa ly find faithfully cultivated linvs in hundred 4 of instance q got carolil manos somo of the of of nf ihmoe e rin clips resemble rp Renil tit of 11 vI linge so inao are tile hip citrin holper llon arizona Is not so ao far along in this class of lement it 19 A 1 newer emi country iut but the claim Is made for jnnny parts of the territory that the climate and grow |