Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-08-22
lected longer. Who will devise the way it
should be accomplished"
GROWING OF OLIVE ORCHARDS.


should be accomplished"
GROWING OF OLIVE ORCHARDS.
Considerable interest in oliye-growine
has been aroused in this part of the county
and there is a prospect that Placer will in
few years compete with the old orchard:
down on the coast. Those who are already
in the business are making preparations tc
propagate olive trees on larger scale than
heretofore. One gentleman who is inter.
ested in the subject says he is convinced
after a careful study of the Consular re-
ports, that as much can be accomplished
here in olive-groWing in six years as can be-
done in twice that time in those parts Of
Europe called the home of the olive. \
number of persons have signified their in
tention of setting out at least few trees
next season, and one gentlema close by
Auburn, has ordered 500 trees to be planted
on his place. Placer County Republican
NEW LIFE TO FRUIT TREES.
An incident which occurred some years
ago in my garden taught me an easy way
to infuse new life and vigor into young
trees Of sluggish growth. A cat was accus-
toned to scratch on the body of q small
pear tree, and before was aware of it the
entire bark around the tree for about foot
up was dry and dead. Considering the
chances for the trees survival very small al
best. l sawed Off the stem Just below the
lacerated bark. This was done about The
middle of May, and the top of the stump
was thickly covered with grating wax. The
first season 4 new stem of over five feet
grew from the stump, and four years after
ward the tree had reached double the size
and bore twice the amount of fruit of any
of the other trees planted at the same time
in the same field. Proiiting by the expert
ence, have since that time never hesitated
to saw off every limb from bark-bound,
crooked unsatisfactory and slow
growing trees. New sprouts will start at
once, the trees viii regain new life grow
luxuriantly, and eventually form large,
symmetrical tops. OF course, where there
is deficiency in the soil, or where stand
ing water settles around the roots, neither
replanting nor pruning can do any good be-
fore the fundamental causes are removed.
i American Garden.
PEAR TREE BLIGHT.
Prof. T. J. Burill, who has made a special
study of pear ice blight, and who believes
it is caused by bacteria that may be carried
from tree to tree upon saws or knives in
pruning the trees, urges orchardists TO ex-
anime closely for the first appearance of
blight, which is indicated BY the leaves
a.
cut away all diseased parts, being careful
to cut low enough to escape cutting into
the diseased wood. Two sets of tools are
recommended, one for trying the condition
OF the branches, the other for making the
final cutting in the sound wood If the
same tools are used for both operations, he
would pass them through the flame of a
lamp, or into some liquid that would de-
strOy the bacteria. He has repeatedly car
ried the disease to healthy trees by inocu-
lation with the sap from blighted tree
IN. +. Farmer.
FREAK or NATURE.
Thomas Fraser last week left us a speci-
men of fruit, grown on peach tree on his
place, that is rarely seen. 1t was part peach
and part nectarine- about three-fifths peach
and the other part nectarine. Where the
two joined together on one side there was
a slight depression in the surface, and the
difference in color and the smoothness of
the skin were distinctly Marked on the
other side the two seemed to blend to-
gether. There was also difference in the
size and appearance of the pit, the nectar
inc side being smaller and of darker color
than the other The dissimilarity of the
two was still further shown in the taste,
the peach being watery and sour, while the
other possessed a sweet and decidedly nee
tarinish favor.-[El Dorado County Re
publican.
GENERAL NOTES.
Rev. j: Hartsough brought to this
office last Thursday morning two yellow
cling peaches from the orchard of Theodore
Disney, on Cow Creek, near Fort Redding.
These peaches weighed 194 ounces, and one
measured 10 and the other 101 inches
around. Mr.. Hartsough informed us that
they We're of average size, and not selected
from the largest. He also states that they
were raised without irrigation, and that
the peach trees in Mr.. Disneys orchard are
badly broken down from the weight of
fruit. Let the croakers look at these
peaches and weep, for their occupation is
gone.
The Del Norte Record speaks thus of
matters in Humboldt county: Crops in
the neighborhood of Ferndale and Eureka
are reported by travellers as immense.
Never was finer hay, oats, orchard grass
and clover cut than is being harvested the
present year. All along the coast, wherever
orchards are grown, south of here, are
found the finest apples, plums, berries, ETC..
and while the counties further south and
inland complain of drought and hard times,
We really feel that our coast people have
very little to complain Of
1t is said that timber cut in spring con-
tainS eight times as much phosphoric acid
and five times as much potassium as that cut
in the winter. If anything like this is the
condition of that cut later in the summer,
and if the presence of these elements rem
ders the wood much more liable to decay
and this appears TO be pretty well estab-
lished-the logging railroads, which it was
believed would render it practicable to
push lumber more vigorously in the sum-
mer than in the winter, may not prove the
bonanza which it was hoped they would
Exchange.
That earthquakes exert destructive in.
fluence on the phylloxera insect of the
grape is, in the opinion of S. Villalongue
who has told the Paris Academy of Sci
ences of a vineyard near Malaga which had
| apparently been destroyed by the parasite
but which vigorously burst into leaf after
| the recent earthquakes in Southern Spain
| i. Gully, of Tulare county, started into
| the poultry business last year with 15C
hens, and from them he has raised in the
past year !, 800, and now has 1000 in fine
| condition. He raised them in the good old
| way, without the aid of incubators or other
artificial contrivances.- Exchange.
1t is curious fact that wasps' nests of
ten take fire, as is supposed by the chem.
ical action of the wax upen the material Of
which the nest is composed. Many of the
fires of unknown origin in hay stacks ant
| farm buildings may thus be accounted for
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