Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-03-22

ruined and all the young wood blackened
at the center throughout, with consider
able of the older wood similarly damaged.
The fruit spurs and buds will never again
show life. Qninces have Jared as badly as
pears. OF sweet cherries but few buds re-
main sound. Sour varieties are little dam.
aged. Peaches are a total loss. Necta-
rines and apricots are also completely killed.
The wood of the cherry is but little
harmed that Of the plum not at all In.
jured. Peach wood appears sound. The
trees themselves seem unhurt. Blsckber-
ries and black raspberries are killed to toe
snow line. There will be no shipments Of
either from this section this year. Red
rsspberries mostly escaped unhurt and
good crop is expected. Strawberries look
like giving good crop. Grape buds are
all black at the cept9r, but the secondary
buds yet to come will furnish a good crop.
This coadition of the fruit bearing plants
extends over SO wide an area and includes
so much of the territory forming the source
of Chicago's supply that it may not be out
Of place to remind your readers of the fact
that it will be best for them to make the
most prudent use of what fruit comes to
their market Prices will undoubtedly
rule high, for there will not be more than
60 per cent. as much fruit sent to Chicago
this year as reached there last year.
Upon the subject of smoking vineyards,
President Estee, of the Napa Grape-Grow.
ere Association, said at the last meeting,
as reported in the Register, that as much
attention is paid to smoking vineyards in
France as to pruning, They have there
been trying for some time to see how much
smoke CO. Id be produced at the least ex-
pense. Premiums have been offered for
inventions for starting fires and making
alarms by electricity. They smoke their
vineyards there everywhere using coal tar,
turf, and old straw, and whatever viii an
swer the purpose. Speaking Of fruit bsar-
ing, he said No vine ought to bear
largely to make fine wine. Ali the promi-
ment French authorities agree upon this
point II is well known that grapes from
NIL vine yards make better wine than those
raised in the valleys. 1t is square propo-
sition between quality and quantity. II
we make fine wine We cannot expect to
raise eight or ten tons TO the acre. We
haven't etepped up tle frat steps of the
ladder yet compared with the progress
made by the experienced viticulturis Is of
France. They don't expect enormous
crops, but they sell their grapes from five
to ten cents per pound. The average price
paid last year was over five cents per
pound. If had my way, and was wine
maker, | would rather raise twelve pounds
of fins grapes to the vine, and make twen-
ty-five cents, than to raise twenty pounds
of the coarse varieties and clear the Ike
sum-"
The season of orchard planting is being
actively occupied generally in most parts
of the State. The Red Bluff Sentinel, re-
ferring to the subject in that section, says
General Chapman is planting on his Clarke
Ranch in Antelope valley, 5000 apricot,
French prune and pear trees, and 20, 900
grape roots. On his home place he is
planting two or three more acres Of grape
roots on red lands, making a vineyard OF
twenty acres on this class of land He in
forms us that his grape roots planted last
year on the red lands west of town did
well, and that So per cent. are living and
made fair growth. He does not doubt the
adaptability of these soils to grape raising,
especially for wine grapes, where the lands
are free from bedrock near the surface.
Our red lands west of the river are gener-
ally underlaid with deep clay stratum
well calculated TO hold moisture. General
Chapman thinks our farmers are losing val
liable time in not utilizing their lands to
fruit. Grape cuttings and roots are much
cheaper than they were few years ago,
and are within the reach of every body.
We hear of several paintings, and we be-
speak success for them. There has been
an unusual number of vines and trees
II. ~, ko2
thirty.aere vineyard, and five or six
thousand fruit trees. We see fruit can
merry and winery near Red Bluff in the
near future.
In addition to the remedies heretofore
recommended for spraying trees in fight
ing insect pests, the Government authori.
ties at the Smithsonian Institution give the
following, which, it is stated, can be ap
piled at any time OF the year without the
least njury to the foliage or fruit and costs
about three cents per gallon: One gallon
kerosene, l50' fire test, one-hElf gallon
Of sweet milk and cne-half gallon Of water.
Pump through the hose fifteen minutes
with sprinkler attached TO nozzle. Add
three pint8 of milk and same quantity of
water pumping fifteen minutes or until it
becomes thick as cream. The mixture will
stand for days without separating. When
ready to use it add eight gallons OF water
to one gallon of cream and mix fifteen
minutes then apply with spray nozzle
same as lye. The remarks upon the use of
the wash or spray are, that while the
spraying of trees with It When 10 blossom
works very effectively, it is better to COM
mence to spray the trees before the BIOS
SONS appear, and then the solution can be
made strong.
Speaking Of the value OF apple and
other fruit pomsce, a correspondent OF
the Rural Ne,c Yorker says | have occa-
sionally seen articles in the agricultural
papers asserting that this was Of no value
but the few experiments | hav- made with
i have proved quite beneticisi, SO far az |
can Judge. The soil upon which my trees
and grapes are planted is poor one, aud
have very little manure to spare Tor them.
In the absence of this, | have carefully
saved the paTings Of apples and pears, and
the skins OF grapes, and the little apple
pomace / could obtain, and mulched the
trees and vines in a two.f foot breadth OF
ring directly underneath the outward ends
OF their limbs. Since this was done, all
have borne more abundantly than before,
and I think the fruit is improved some
what in quality. Why should not this be
the case, when, from the decaying of the
ponace, the numerous fine rootlsts are sup
piled with such elements as are exactly
suited for the production Of fruit?
In recent report of the National Acad-
envy OF Sciences to the Commissioner Of In
ternal Revenue it was shown that the in
dustry in the United States of manufacture
ing glucose from corn gives employment IN
twenty nine factories, having an estimated
capital of s.. eco 600, consuming about 40,
600 bushels of corn per day, and producing
syrup and sugar of the annual value of
nearly $40 000, 600 Tbe report Gays that
the article is in no way inferior to cane
sugar in healthfulness, and that corn sugar,
either in its normal condition or fermented,
has nc deleterious effect upon the system
even when taken in large quantities. A
bushel of corn will make thirty-6ve pounds
of sugar, or two and one half gallons of
pure strained honey" To manufacture
corn sugar the corn is first converted into
starch. The starch is then converted into
sugar by means OF diluted sulphuric acid.
After the sugar is made all the acid is re-
moved.
A party of Swedes purchased upwards
- / s3oO ,crel FeSr days since sOuth of