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Franklin McMillan Diary, 1923 & 1924

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you could not eat either one too sweet other too sour Canneries use the sour ones. Says orange land running out as they cannot get manure and costs about $80 an acre per year to water. and $60 a year to water an acre of Alfafa, the other man was a Carpenter from Mass. only works part of the time. grow a lot of cranberries were he comes from. says the plant on bogs, first cover with 5 inches of sand to keep the weeds down, have to wait 3 years for a crop. they run like strawberries. they cover with water a couple of months in the winter to kill the Cranberry weevil. and have a machine with a scoop to pick them, he says Walnuts best to grow here. nothing bothers them much only Codling Moth.

Feby 12th. Warm again today talking to a man from Colorado he is like all the rest here says oranges no good in price, costs too much to raise. thinks alfafa best as the dry farmers are all out of it this year on account of no rain.

Feby 13th. Left the house at 9.40 am. to Catch 10 oclock bus to Redlands but owing to a misunderstanding there was no bus till 1130 so we had

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