The Health Seekers and Early Southern California Agriculture
The Health Seekers and Early Southern California Agriculture
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健康追求者和早期南加州农业
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10.2307/3635436
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发表时间：
1951
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J. Baur
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作者：
J. Baur
关于人类亲近土地的好处，已经有许多智慧被表达和发表。几个世纪以来，地球不朽的外壳因其精神上的相关性而受到赞扬，从格拉古的时代起，它就被宣布为一个人身体方面的发展。在19世纪70年代的南部加州，土地仍然相对便宜，土壤肥沃，户外生活不可避免，该地区在经济上需要定居者和生产者。与此同时，铁路繁荣了向农民出售土地的活动，并顺理成章地将气候和农业联系起来，以抓住早期涌入的残疾人，并说服他们通过购买农田来健康和富裕。当然，那些有头脑的人可以预见到白色领劳动力的进步不大，当地经济支持的工作岗位很少，而生病的人口提供了过剩的人员。律师和医生人数众多，而且往往在财务上绝望。在铁路推销员旁边有许多人告诉寻求健康的人，农业是他的救星。在圣盖博谷，柑橘种植仍处于先驱时期，到19世纪70年代，已经有许多当地的气候爱好者，他们把那里和正东方向的地区称为“大橙子带和疗养院”。例如，在1881年，Rev.P.D.杨为《工作中的基督徒》（Christian at Work）写道：“尝试过所有这些方法的人认为，”橙子带“（沿着这些山谷的上部）的气候比欧洲南部或佛罗里达更适合虚弱的肺。“稍后，亨利·C。斯泰尔斯沉思道：“在这些国家，病人、体弱者、残疾者蜂拥而至，为了舒适和治愈，应该种植这种具有如此宝贵药用价值的水果。“”这两个
MUCH WISDOM HAS been voiced and published concerning the benefits to man of closeness to the soil. Through several centuries the earth's immortal crust has received praise for its spiritual correlations, and from the days of the Gracchi its development of one's physical side has been proclaimed. In the southern California of the 1870's land was still comparatively cheap, soil rich, outdoor life inevitable, and the region economically in need of settlers and producers. Meanwhile the railroads boomed land sales to farmers and logically as well as inescapably connected the climate and agriculture to catch the early influx of invalids and convince them that they would be healthy and wealthy through buying farm lands. Surely those with good sense could forsee little advancement in white collar labor, for which the local economy supported few jobs and the sick population offered superabundant personnel. Professions presented an even darker aspect where lawyers and doctors were dense in numbers and often desperate in finances. There were many beside the railroad promoters to tell the health seeker that farming was his salvation. Citrus growing, still in its pioneer days in the San Gabriel Valley, already by 1870o had numerous local climatic enthusiasts who were calling the area there and due east the "Great Orange Belt and Sanitarium." For example, in 1881 Rev. P. D. Young wrote for the Christian at Work, "By persons who have tried them all, it is thought that the climate of the 'Orange Belt' [along the upper sides of these valleys] is better suited to weak lungs than that of the south of Europe or Florida." Later, Henry C. Stiles mused that "it is appropriate that in these countries where flock the sick, the infirm, the invalids of the world, for comfort and healing-should be grown this fruit which has such valuable medicinal qualities."' These two