Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-04-13
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growers and wine-makers. The prices paid
for the stock have hitherto been high, and
growers profits exorbitant, while Gamers
and wine-makers have made little. Yet
selling prices in both cases have been good;
indeed, so good that, with costly transpor-
tation East, tie canned fruits and wines of
California have been rather articles of lux.
ury than of ordinary consumption by the
million. In few years there will be ten
fruit trees bearing in California where now
there IS one, and we may expect to can or
dry ten times the quantity we do now. To
get this enormous qantity into consump'
tion it must be sold at prices that will put
canned fruits within the reach of the great
mass of families.
Stockton Independent, referring to the &C.
tion of the State Board of Horticulture in
electing Fruit Pest Inspector, says The
result presented to the people is that $3.50
per month is to be paid to self-confessed
ignorsmus who admits that be knows moth
ing more about entomology than a jaekass
is supposed to know about moral philoso-
ply. Very important duties devolve upon
the State Board of Horticulture, and to
select man to execute trust which he is
incapable of comprehending, might be par.
donable if it were nothing worse than
childish. The proceedings were disgrace
fal. The true mission Of the State Board
is surely higher than the selection of hor-
ticultural advisor who has no more knowl.
edge OF the subject than child. By its
own action the Board has brought itself
into contempt.
The Kern county Californian, after men.
tioning that alfalfa hay does not have a
good reputation in the market, argues that
it is owing to the mistake of cutting before
it is matured. It is usual to cut il when
in blossom, and it reaches that state about
four times in the course of the season. Its
nature as to nutritive properties is just the
same as any other grass which no one would
think of cutting before the seed is wholly
or at least partially formed. Any grass cut
before that time would be almost worth.
less, but that alfalfa is as good as it is, cut
when it is, well illustrates It's valuable and
nutritive properties. But when cut at the
right stage of growth as other grasses are,
or the cereals, when cut for hay, it makes
the best hay in the world, its strengthen
ing and fattening properties being very re-
markable.
Marysviile Appeal' The new State Board
of Horticulture met at Sacramento on
Thursday and organized. w. M. Boggs,
of Napa, was chosen President Of the Board
and also Pest Inspector. Politics seem to
have entered into this selection, as Mr..
Boggs is not qualified for the position. His
salary was fixed at $3.50 per month. The dis
cussion over the election was excited aud
bitter. Mr.. Cooke deserved the Office as the
best qualified horticalturist in the State,
and it was expected he would be elected.
But Boggs, as Chairman of the Board, de-
clared himself elected, though he received
the votes of only four of the nine members.
The usefulness of the Commission will
probably be seriously impaired by this un-
wise selection of Pest Inspector.
Los Angeles Times, We say, with the
Ventura Free Press, as to high liquor Ii.
cense, "put it high-very high-so high as
TO utterly extinguish the deadfslis and
cribs where the whisky is so mean that
drink of it would make man strike his
mother, or steal his own blankets-the
dens to which thieves resort to dispose of
their plunder-the places which the Sher.
itf instinctively starts for when he gets no.
tice OF larceny or other crime, sure of
finding bis man." Tax these holes ous of
existence, then punish every body for
adultcrat;ng liquor, and long stride will
hava been taken in the direction of true
temperance reform.
San Jose Mercury Boggs is a Notary
and has had nothing to do with horticult.
ure for ten years, but he proposes to hold
on to the Inspectorship as long as that $3.50
per month is attached to the office. At
he To- t-,f. rS.4r8rrs-1 n
held in this city, we thought we detected
disposition on the part of certain promi-
nent members to wrangle and to lose sight
of the great interests intrusted to them,
for the sake OF personal alteration. We
hope that the new Board will comprehend
the fact that they have in their keeping, TO
considerable extent, one of the most i'm
portant industries of the State.
Calaveras Chronicle It is an undisputed
fact that the many well.sheltered little val.
leys in the foothills are among the most pro-
ductive lands in the State and in the de-
velopment of the agricultural and horti.
cultural capabilities of the whole re-
gion lying immediately below the snowbelt
Of the Sierras, there is prosperous future
in store. Experiments have already suffi-
ciently demonstrated the fact of the possess
sion of all the qualities requisite to reward
the labors of the husbandman with success,
and it needs no far penetrating vision into
the future to prophesy great prosperity for
the whole foothill belt
Placer Herald. From all accounts of the
capabilities of the land, the revenue de-
rived from its products, the desirability of
climate, and the facilities for market, we
of ,N1a ~ u,
can get as much for his money as in the
foothills of Placer. This important fact is
fast being learned by the people of other
sections, and hence the reason for the
rapid settlement and development os this
section. Those who come here, however,
that the acquisition of piece of
land will afford them a living
without work, will be sadly disappointed.
Walla Walla Union. One of the singular
facts about the whole liquor question is
that the consumers of strong drink, the
patrons Of the bar, are nowhere found OBJ.
jecting to high license. On the contrary,
they all appear to favor it. Their reasons
are plain. Few men desire to have multi.
piled their chances of getting drunk, and
less number desire to drink poor liquors.
High license prevents no one from drink
ing, but it does, in measure, protect all
from being injured by poor liquors, because
it shuts up the I" dives" and dead falls"
Helena Herald, The well recognized
principle of taxing only luxuries and follies
is not well adhered to in our present license
law. The licenses imposed on butchers,
bakers, hotel, boarding house and restau-
rant keepers, is direct tax on living and
the necessaries Of life. The licenses thus
paid are charged up with liberal margin
to all their patrons, and the tax thus fails
upon every morsel of food that Is eaten by
every poor man. The matter of drink
stands on different footing, but no license
should be allowed to increase the price of
food.
San Jose Herald II it be true of Mr..
Boggs that he has had no experiences in
horticulture for ten or twelve years, he is
not fit and proper person for Inspector of
Fruit Pests, whether he be Democrat or
a Republican. That place was not made
for political hummer Of any party, but
tor practical, experienced and conscier-
tious horticulturist. In our opinion DIR,
Chaplin, Of this county, is the man for the
position, and We had hoped that he would
be chosen.
Colusa Sun. There will be q full half
crop, II not more, on the river lands from
the upper to the lower end of the county
that is, If we do not have too much unfayor-
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