Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-22

Uuu OF DIdHCHs w E6H InCtActss tiS 1tuu5
larva makes its way into the center OF the
stem, and. taking q downward course, eats
out the pith for distance Of several inches
The borer is of general white color, with
q brown head There are a few short hairs
scattered over the body. Besides six true legs
in front, there are ten feshy prop-legs further
back When full grown the borer Is nearly
half an inch In length, and slender Ia proper
ton. The main color of the moth Is very
dark blue. There are three narrow COLDER
green rings about the abdomen. This col len
color is also seen in the collar and on the
inner side Of the legs, on the sides of the body
under the wings, and to come extent on the
wings themselves. The wings Of the female
expand about tbree-fourths CT an inch,
but the male is considerably smaller.
The mischief done by the borer is shown
by the poor crops Of currauts, both as to
quantity and quality, and in the death Of
portions or the whole of the plants attacked
The remedy for the eurrant borers is to cut
away and burn al those portions Of the brush
infested, during winter or early spring, before
the Insects escape. If whole neighborhood
were united in this action the pest can be
practically exterminated In one or two sea-
Sons.
DRIED-FRUIT MOTH.
These insects infsst the packing-houses
and ssore-roo where dried fruits are packed,
and deposit their eggs on the fruit, etc.
Remedy-Take buhsch powder and dust
around windows, etc, also around where
packages are. This, in several csses, has
proved effectual.
The moth that produces the larva found
on the dried fruit and the codling moth are
not the same. This is a different species.
The Wheat Market.
There is very unsatisfactory feeling ali
around in regard to the wheat market Pro-
ducers held on to their wheat, confidently ex-
pecting by 50 doing to get the benefit of
rise in price. They looked for this rise to
come from two causes. First from natural
increased demand over supply in the Eu-
ropean markets, and second from greater
supply OF tonnage and consequent decrease Of
freight. Neither Of these things have &C.
cured, and consequently prices have gone
down instead OF up. The consequence is that
those who could have sold their wheat after
harvest at 81 50 per GENITAL are now unable
to obtain over about 81 So to 81 40 They
have stored their grain since at some c9nsid-
cradle cost, and many of them have paid in
terest on money borrowed on it, and it natu-
rally comes very hard now to bring them
selves to consent to accept a price
that will leave them losers The matter of
taxes on the wheat and on the money loaned
on it, adds materially to the embarrassment
Of the situation. There is liability that a
large amount of pledged or mortgaged wheat
may be thrown upon the market. already in
so unsatisfactory q condition, and reduce
prices still more. This would of course re-
suit in great losses to the producers who have
their wheat on hand, as prices once down
cannot be expected TO revive much before new
wheat will be in the English markets. 1t is
clearly to the interest of all who have wheat
on hand, whether producers or dealers, to do
what can be done to prevent the catastrophe
we have indicated az probable to occur.
The question is, what can be done?
Very much of the money loaned out
on wheat is foreign money, which
has been loaned through the banks here,
acting as agents. and has been loaned on
such conditions that it can be called in at any
time, even if to realize the wheat has to
be forced on the market. Whether any con-
cessions can be obtained in favor of borrowers
is quite doubtful at the present time or upon
the present loans. But certainly by con-
cert of action producers can prevent such
combination of circumstances against them
in the future, and it seems to US that now is
the time to take the initiative steps looking
to such protective measures. By combina-
ton of large growers the question of ex
orbitant freights eau be eliminated from the
dangers of the future by chartering their own
vessels and shipping their own grain. The
matter of loans can also be regulated by
making arrangements with capital SO that
forced sales will not endanger the normal
conditions of the markets in the future.
But there are now in prospect better fRcili
ties of shipment OF wheat from our State to
European markets, which. we hope, may be
realized tc some extent at least before the
crop of 1882 will be grown. Among these
better facilities, the first and most important
is the completion aud equipment of the
Southern Pacific Railroad to the Gulf of
Mexico and the establishment of a line of
steamers from its terminus to Liverpool. 1t
is hoped, and with reason, taat this route viii
by its competition with the route around the
Horn give ns a fair and uniform freight, aud
at the same time bring US so much nearer the
European markets as TO place US on an equal
footing with producers both the Atlantic
slope and in Russia. It is also hoped that
the overland or gulf route viii carry our
wheat in bulk, thus saving producers the ex-
pense of packing.