Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1892 — What a Small Ranch Produced. [ARTICLE]

What a Small Ranch Produced.

Reliable figures of profits of Southern California fruit ranches are among the most valuable and effective ammunition with which to assault prejudice against this region, and it is unfortunate that our successful ranchers do not take more pains to supply newspapers with such information. Many muoh more noteworthy instances than the following hare been published from time to time, but this is good enough to repeat A Southern California ranch of nineteen acres near a prosperous town yielded in the year from December, 1888, to December, 1889, 15,568, the product being oranges, lemons, and miscellaneous fruit. After deducting family expenses of ?1,700, the cost or employing two men and other items,the net income brer all expenses was $2,697.83. —[San Diego,Cal., Union. Farming is to he taught st Rutgers College in New Jersey, with the other stud.es.