DOES IT PAY TO GROW FRUIT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2230, 26 February 1886, Page 3

DOES IT PAY TO GROW FRUIT.

Docs it pay to raise fruits! asks an American contemporary. This is a question often asked % all classes of men who have not been engaged in .this'' pur-. . suit. Beforo entering into it they ■ want;, to know whether it is a s;ifn investment for their capital and. labor, and whether.'; they can find a ready maiket for t.heir - fruits. The most satisfactory answer can >. bo given by referring the qucrest to those '. in this .pursuit, all over the state. «i the Santa; .Clara Valley friiit urms are dotted all Over it, and nearly nil the valleys are being-cut up into small ; farms, and. fruit-raising is taking the ■ place of grain-growing, . Fruit-raising builds up large towns and cities. Take away this industry from Los Angeles, Sacramento, ban. Joss, and other -largo , . cities, whose -foundations of business activity is based upon fruit-raising, ship- . ping, and the patronage of the thousands of families engaged in it, and what would ■ : bo the result./ Hundreds of storerooms. would bo for rent, which are now filled with goods.. The greater the number of families the larger -the demand for merchandise. ' A great many owners of large tracts of land are cutting them up into ■ ton, twenty, and forty-aero lots for fruit . farms. By this imeans from 5,000 to ' 10,000 families annually find homes in California. They come to engage in rarious branches of farming, . bufc principally that of fruit-raising, because they 1 Know thoro is' tnonoy.to bo ; iiiaUtfafc it; " They locate as near towns as possible, : -tuid the business men reap the. benefit. ■ jOioy create an "increasing demand for wrchandise, and give remunerative. em-:.. ployment to' theinecliamc. s "lias a'iliiclily f ■ populated community around-the town that makes business. Set a town out in . ' a million acre tract of land, and' what would keep it :iu I. It would ' soon dwindle.away'and become deserted, for yrant of proper nourishment to keep ; : ft together. Only' a few large arteries i might centre there, .and they could nob ■' supply sufficient vitality to give new' life • and increased activity. Inducements are hold out to tlio immigrant- all over the ■;■ state, each - sectioii;^-.tryirigl ta(ge.t: a\viiy ' from its neighbour, but none of thorn can excel the San Joaquin Valley in pro- •; ductivcnps3 and climate., It- has been ■ : fully demonstrated-. that oranges.can be grown here, - and why would not the ■ orange industry be as practicable" for Modesto as it is for Los Angeles or Rivereide ? Knowing that the soil find climate : are adapted for orange culture, other, fruits could be easily, grown, :and perhaps with greater profit. Centrally located in ; one of the . richest valleys of the state, - Modesto has every advantage to become one of the most/important cities in the. valloy. But, to reach-tliis -position', we . want 200 or 300 s fruit growers and chickeri ranches around the comity seat, and its prominence will be: assured' beyond a . 'question of doubt. What is.said respecting California in this.;respect, can be ' sa,i(| with equal'truth respecting the pns- ; sibilitiea of this part of New Zealand, —Auckland Weekly Ncwb,