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'''September 22, 1917 [SBDN]:''' “A carload of wheat seed for planting on Santa Cruz Island was loaded on the schooner ''Santa Cruz'' this morning and taken across the channel. The schooner also carried a large shipment of empty wine casks. Preparations for a big output of wine from the island vineyards is being made. The schooner also carried over a flock of hens.” | '''September 22, 1917 [SBDN]:''' “A carload of wheat seed for planting on Santa Cruz Island was loaded on the schooner ''Santa Cruz'' this morning and taken across the channel. The schooner also carried a large shipment of empty wine casks. Preparations for a big output of wine from the island vineyards is being made. The schooner also carried over a flock of hens.” | ||
'''February 5, 1918 [SCICo Letter Books]:''' “Relative to the conservation of wheat, we have on hand at this time 6 sacks of flour and we would suggest that you send us sufficient rye or barley flour or corn meal to go with this. We believe that this 25% of other flours will make the bread dry out fast so that bread will have to be baked every two days, which will add very materially to the work of the cooks.” | |||
'''March 1, 1920 [SCICo Letter Books]:''' “I had the four sacks of wheat planted in the lower half of the Upper. It is about six inches high and growing nicely. The original plans called for corn in the above mentioned piece but where I planted wheat I had given up hope of any sufficient rain falling to raise corn and I knew we would be unable to get around to _____ and irrigating that piece in time for corn, so rather than have it lie idle I had the wheat planted there.” | |||
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Wheat
In the News~
September 22, 1917 [SBDN]: “A carload of wheat seed for planting on Santa Cruz Island was loaded on the schooner Santa Cruz this morning and taken across the channel. The schooner also carried a large shipment of empty wine casks. Preparations for a big output of wine from the island vineyards is being made. The schooner also carried over a flock of hens.”
February 5, 1918 [SCICo Letter Books]: “Relative to the conservation of wheat, we have on hand at this time 6 sacks of flour and we would suggest that you send us sufficient rye or barley flour or corn meal to go with this. We believe that this 25% of other flours will make the bread dry out fast so that bread will have to be baked every two days, which will add very materially to the work of the cooks.”
March 1, 1920 [SCICo Letter Books]: “I had the four sacks of wheat planted in the lower half of the Upper. It is about six inches high and growing nicely. The original plans called for corn in the above mentioned piece but where I planted wheat I had given up hope of any sufficient rain falling to raise corn and I knew we would be unable to get around to _____ and irrigating that piece in time for corn, so rather than have it lie idle I had the wheat planted there.”
