Tulare County Biographies

CHARLES GREEN McFARLAND

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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An innovator among farmers and dairymen in Tulare county, Cal., Charles Green 
McFarland, who lives two miles west of Tulare, is undoubtedly deserving of 
special mention. He is a native of Green county, Mo., born February 27, 1872, 
who came to California in 1887. During the five years after his arrival he was 
employed by his father, and in 1892 bought the Exeter stable at Tulare, where he 
conducted a livery business for about a year and a half. Subsequently he grew 
grain eight years, and in 1901 bought forty acres of land and rented three 
hundred acres, on all of which he set up as a stockman and dairyman and he 
operated with success five years. His location during that period was four miles 
south of Tulare. He now bought thirty-two acres two miles west of the Tulare 
post office and rented an adjoining thirty-two acres. He has on his own place 
twenty acres of alfalfa and twenty-five acres on his leased land, and milks 
thirty cows, disposing of their products over a milk route which he has 
established in Tulare. He has the only herd of registered Jersey cows in the 
vicinity, thirty-five head altogether, the largest milk producers thereabouts, 
the average test of their milk yielding 4.8 in butter fat. He has raised no 
cattle except thoroughbreds and it is only after years of selection and of 
careful attention to details that he has been able to produce a herd so 
excellent. In 1910 he built a silo on his place, in which respect he was a 
pioneer in his part of the county, and in 1912 he installed an electric pumping 
plant which furnishes ample water for all purposes.
On February 27, 1896, Mr. McFarland married Matilda Monroe, who has borne him a 
daughter and two sons, Lois, Merrill and Loren, who are aged respectively 
fourteen, ten and eight years. The family are communicants of the Methodist 
Episcopal church of Tulare, and Mr. McFarland is a member of the order of 
Fraternal Aid of that city. He is a stockholder in the Dairymen's Co-operative 
Creamery Company of Tulare, and also a stockholder in the Tulare Power Company.
 
History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California with Biographical Sketches - 
Los Angeles, Calif., Historic Record Company, 1913, pp. 616-617