Show elwood spencer to leave for california mr air alood spencer who for the past two years has been the agriculture instructor at the local high school Is 13 leaving the first of september tor for el centro centre in the imperial valley california where he has secured a similar teachings position mr air spencer visited el bl centro last week leaving here monday and arriving back last friday lie he Is very favorably impressed with the productiveness of the imperial valley ile he says that section is growing very rapidly too as the all american canal goes right to el centro with an abundant and constant water supply from boulder dam mr air spencer visited the farm of one of his school board members who is growing acres of alfalfa in that section they cut 7 crops a year and the average production Is eight tons of alfalfa hay to the acre the school board member like his neighbors was cutting his hay with a tractor lie he was raking racing with a side delivery rake drawn behind an old car and had an old truck equipped with a power baler baling the hay from the windrow wind row the baled hay is stacked on the farms with special derricks and trucked thru out the year into the los angeles area aside from hay considerable grain Is grown as a field crop milo maze Is the principal grain crop As truck crops melons and lettuce predominate melons being grown for the early market and lettuce ott off the same ground for or fall all and winter marketing some cotton and grapefruit is also grown in the imperial valley the climate mr spencer reports Is lovely levels for or eight months of 0 the year but a little too hot for or com fort ort the other four our ile he says the thermometer read 1201 V F the day he be arrived there last week mr air spencer has many friends fiends here whose best wishes for or success will go with him to his new beld field of 0 work |