Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-09-13

from small farms we'll conducted, the Los
Angeles Herald says: Mr.. Noland. who
purchased seventeen acres Of land, with a
house and an orchard thereon, last spring,
near Dowpey, for 81. 300, was in town yes.
terday with load of fruit. He raises
plums, pears, peaches, apples, apricots and
tomatoes, and will this summer sell about
81 200 worth of fruit. This result, gained
in six months, from an expenditure of
81, 800, is a very good showing of what can
be done in farming in the lowlands. Mr..
Noland's fruit is large and very fine. One
apple tree, although not full grown, yielded
thirty-two bushels of large apples. His
plum trees bore very heavily, and the
neighbors purchased them all at the
orchard at three cents pound. II he had
brought them to the city they would have
sold at six cents pound. With this solid
fact before our farmers, that on the low-
lands where some alkali is in the soil,
plums bear heavily and pay also heavily,
it is strange they do not plant more plum
trees
The Trade Journal, in an article on the
fiber industries of America, insists that
there is not State from the British bound
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not produce some fbrous plant that Will be
a source of wealth to the grower. It says
"Jute is especially adapted to the rich
alluvial soil of the Mississippi bottom
lands. All that was necessary for its sue
cessful introduction as a staple industry
was the discovery of mechanical device
for separating the outward covering of the
stem from the fiber, a problem which it is
now believed has been solved. The ma
chine will be tested en- crop now growing
in Mississippi. If it proves as successful
as is anticipated, jute.g growing will be
added to our industries, and within few
years will prove profitable rival to cotton
as a leading Southern product The mar.
ket for it is practically boundless, both at
home and abroad. ST. Louis alone, in the
year 1882, manufactured IL 900 yards of
juse bagging. Every pound of the raw
material was imported from India.
The celebrated New Zealand flax, and
the useful atcchs, or esparto grass, can be
successfully grown on the Pacific slope,
while Southern California and Arizona
abound with the csctus, which has not
hitherto been utilized.
$50 far we have only considered the
plants more especially adapted for textile
manufacture, but IN addition to these our
whole country ahounds with seeds, grasses
and plants, rich in material for the paper
manufacturer. In all countries where
paper is made, the cry for more fibers is
heard, and the search for new sources of
supply is constant, still the supply is not
equal to the demand Our Southern
States alone can supply the world with
all the paper stock it needs. All that is
necessary is to concentrate on our fiber
industries intelligence, capital and enter
prise.
"With fax and other fiber.producing
plants properly utilized, and jute and
ramie successfully introduced, together
with the products of our cotton-felds, a
matchless combination of wealth. produc-
ing raw material would be added to the
resources of the country, and marvel
ous impetus be given to sextile manufact-
ures, an industry, the Importance Of
which cannot be overestimated, presenting
a diversified range almost boundless, and
promising fine and reliable basis for the
future industrial prosperity of our na-
tion."