CALIFORNIA NOT A PARADISE.
A Bradford man writes from King’s County, California, a deplorable letter as to the conditions of fruit farming there compared with three or four years ago. Raisins formerly fetched 5 cents a pound but they are now sold for 1 or I£. Two years ago he rented a twenty acre farm for 175 dollars, but this year ho only pays 125. Wheat has been sold for 65 cents per 1001b, about half the usual price. Farmers can’t grow it for that. As a nurseryman he says, “This year I am selling my trees at 8 to 10 cents each. Three years ago they were sold at 30 to 35 cents each.” Everybody is in debt. When a man works it is rarely he gets paid. Everything is done on the long credit system, except payment in kind. Yet that is one of the lands to which Englishmen of the laboring class would floe to !
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Cromwell Argus, Volume XXVII, Issue 1359, 7 May 1895, Page 5
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