Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-07-18
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CALIFORNIA RAIsINS

this State, with view TO securing higher
favor for our product. 1t says: The
Eastern market is apparently in very good
shape Eastern fruit dealers are learning q
truer appreciation of California raisinS and
are ready to handle them now. though q
| year or two ago they seemed quite welded
| to the distribution OF the Malaga crop. As
our raisins Will come IN earlier than usual
| this wear, for the conditions have favored
an early fruit crop all around, they Will
have a better start Of the Malaga fruit than
usual, and if they are properly pushed the
| Eastern jobbers will beinduced 10 get them
! well placed before the foreign crop arrives
! These facts are leading 10 more liberal
views among local packers. An item III
! the Riverside Press states that six cents per
pound IS offered for the fruit in the
! ''Sweat-boxes' i'll that colony.
! We trust that raiSin packers will be
! able to see the advantage OF keeping pack
aces Of California raisins up to their full
weight. L will be decidedly in favor OF
( California iruit to have square and honest
/ package as well IS & superior fruit. There
| has been for years great complaint and
dissatisfaction with the foreign fruit IN this
respect, and hardly any amount Of protest
could overcome the greed Of the foreign
| packers. BY giving full weight with the
California fruit, we shall capture 1t once
the retailer and consumer. W e are going
to have large Iaisin product, and can
afford 10 give good measure 10 those who
by their patronage, assist Us TO find al
enduring and profitable demand.
AGRICULTURE N APrIIA.
The spade IS unknown. and everything
is done with a short-handled and much
bent hoe. Earth and stones are carried
exactly as in Egypt, i'll small rush baskets
on one shoulder, each basket containing
about twelve handstui. ! tried to explain
a wheelbarrow 70 an ApIliar peasant with
signal unsuccess No doubt he would use
it as the Arabs did, when NJ. De Lesseps
tried 10 introduce them ut lsmaiiid on the
Sucz Canal-turn them topsyturYy 10 SLEEP
under. The plow weighs from eight to ten
pounds. and consists OF two very slender
bent boughs OF olive or lex, as shafts ard
a linv wooden coulter roughly shaped
with hatchct, which Just scratches the
soil when a man leans on Il stick that he
fits into d hole on the upper part. Some
times one sees fourteen pairs of oxen and
five Or six pairs Of mules ploWiilg in line
under the olives. The fields are very large
! and they make 10 burrows for the water
to drain oil. When the days work is oYey
the plow is tied on 10 the horns OF one OK
who trails the shafts on each side as he
seGately PAGES homeward. The shepherds
guide their tiocks partly by voice and part
" by throwing stones. They are unerring
shots, and a marauding lamb who has ven
tured into the corn jumps high OF the
! ground on receiving a stone on It's nose
| Janet Ross IN MacmIliau5 Magazine.
cocAINE-GRowING y CALIFORNIA.
| In view OF the increasing demand fo1
! cocaine. which promises to be 50 valuable 9
local aneethctiC the Department Of Agri-
! culture will no doubt soon be prepared &c
! furnish seeds and slips of the cocao plant,
to be experimental with in the United
| States. Indigenous 10 the mountainous
regions Of Peru, the coca is there cultivated
/ in large tracts called cocals. Growing from
/ six TO eight feet in hight, it nearest Tesem-
| ble5 hegeranium IN general characteristics
! excepting the structure Of the flower which
! is 50 peculiar that botanists have grouped
; the various species Of cocas into i separate
| family, and named it, on account of its
! frequently flaming branches ErytbrorWor
literally, redwood. The botanical name
| for the valuable commercial member Is
/ ErghroJyi1H c1clo
From earliest Peruvian TecOlieCtiOnS. the
/ leaves of the coca mixed with certain
/ proportion Of IIne, have been cheWed and
/ swallowed 10 produce a stimulating effect
/ The working natives allow themselves a
/ haIt-hour four times each day to enjoy this
/ pleasure and recover from the first over
I Powcr.rg tendency to sleep. With them ii
/ largely supplies the place OF food. and
strengthens them Tor hard. continuous
( labor IL tropical heat.
The wholesale value OF the leaf varies
/ from II to 81 % per pound. The active
principle cocaine, is segregated by an ex-
pcnSiye process, which gives il an rXorbi-
taut market price, the salts of cocaine be-
ing sold at 4 dollar d grain. In the versa
tile climate Of California mountain ranges
whore the geranium grows in rank luxuri-
ance, there seems TO be no reason why CO.
Gals should not flourish The plant ma
lures in from three TO i've years, when the
first annual picking Of leaves can be made.
Farmers cOnsciendousIv opposed to VIII
culture may find their tracts Of high lands
grow Tcmuneratiye By means Of cocals la
dies of leisure, longing for some means OF
swelling theirincomes, and the moredaring
women who are pre-emptiEg their quarter
sections should ind inGucemcnt enough in
the attractive figures quoted TO set aside q
few acres for this profitable gardening
San Francisco Post
EsrINATISG MEASUREMENT OF STANDING
GRAIN.
IN officer in the English navy has con.
>trtlcted Il table for estimating the amount
OF wheat on an acre Of land before il is
harvested. The estimate can be made as
soon rs the grain Is ripe and would fire.
Quentlv be SO valuable information to orr
readers that We give the process. Take =
wood or iron frame one yard square, care
fully let il down over the standing grain,
and thea Shell and weigh al the grain on
the straw belonging inside that frame. Ii
Il circular 'CnOp form. as he calls IT, is
more convenient, make it six feet nine
and q quarter inches in diameter, OF half
inch iron From his elaborate table, IS
published in the Dublin Furmers GQ.ate,
We extract tie following;
Two ounces per square yard equals zoos
bushels per acre.
Two and one-half ounces per square
yard equals 1850 bushels per acre.
Twoand jhree-quarters ounces per square
yard 1886 bushels.
Three ounces per square yard equals
1912 bushels per acre.
Three and oue-half ounces per square
ward equals / : 50 bushels per acre.
Five ounces per square yard equals 232l
bushels per acre
Five ana three-qUarter ounces per square
yard equals - bushels per acre.
Six ounces per square yard equals 30.2j
bushels per acre.
Seven ounces per square yard equals
800 bushels per acre.
Eight ounces per square yard equals 40
bushels per acre.
These estimates are on basis of sixty
pounds per bushel The two and one-haiI
ounces per square yard is about the average
yield Of wheat per acre in America: the
i've and thrce-Quarter ounces per square
yard is the average in Great Britain.
RENoyATIN0 FRUIT TREES.
An incident which occurred some ycar>
ago in nv garden taught me an easy way
70 iniusa new life and yig0r into young
trees OF sluggish growth i eat was ac
customcd to scratch ON the body Of a small
| pear tree. and before | was aware OF ii thu
| entire bark around the tree for about q foo
up was dry and dead. Considering tho
7 chances for the trees survival very small a
! best. I sawed of the stem Just below Tho
| laceratcd bark. This was done about The