Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1911 — I. W. Porter Writes That California Spring Has Started. [ARTICLE]

I. W. Porter Writes That California Spring Has Started.

I. J. Porter, who has been living on a fruit farm near Dinuba, Cali., for several years, writes as follows In renewing his Republican subscription: "We are always anxious to read the Republican and if perchance a copy happen to miss us then we miss it greatly. We are all well and doing well and have rock on the ground for a new 6-room house. We have had a fine rain in the past few days and the clouds have hung low for several days, which means that we are having snow in the mountains and that makes water for irrigation in the summer. Vegetation is advancing rapidly. The almond trees are leafed and the buds are swelling to almost bloom. Usually the almonds bloom the last of January and peaches and other fruit blooms the first of February. We have at present in our garden plenty of radishes, lettuce and turinips, large enough to use, and peas are In bloom. We also have some beautiful roses in blossom. I only wish the people of old Jasper could see California in all its beauty. It is only a few days now until every unplowed field will be a glow of California poppies, which is certainly a beautiful sight The farmers who are going to plant watermelons have much of the ground plowed but will not plant until the first of March and the crop will be ripe the latter part of June or the first of July. It is necessary to plow the ground early and deep. “Well this may not interest you. as you have probably heard it of times before. I would be glad to see any of the old Jasper county people at any time they come this way.”