Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-05-22

of a deer or antelope, and both bucks and
ewes have horns. The fleece is large and
coarse, and weighs from four 70 five
pounds. The mutton is said to be the
finest in the world. In the wild mountain
and moorland districts OF Scotland this
sheep is preferred to any other breed. 1t is
thought that in this country these sheep
would live and thrive in all the mountains
without any care except occasional looking
after by herdsman, to keep informed as
to the section occupied by them as range
dayton News Reporter.
TULARE's GRAIN PRODUCT.
1t may perhaps be little early to give
definite figures upon the grain product for
the county this year. but week or two
more will place the matter beyond doubt.
one way or the other. The apnis is I'M
pleasantly numerous, and it is not known
what damage, if any, it will do. Then if
We could have one more good shower to
help the late grain TO fill, ii would add
many thousand sacks to the total Weld.
The total acreage for the county has been
estimated to be 100000 acres of grain of all
kinds, and many believe it to be greater.
1t seems to one riding through the country
as though it were one vast grain field But
TO be entirely within bounds, allowing for
all possible deductions, we will place the
there are those who think the average will
reach ten sacks per acre, but wish
ing to be within bounds, we will
place the average yield for the
county at eight sacks per acre. This will
make a total yield of 100000 sacks, or
2i333S tons, and will require l., 227 cars of
average capacity to carry it to tide water
Going north from Tulare thirty-fve cars
can be hauled in each train, making 40G
trains necessary to take Tulares crop TO
tide water. 1t is not probable that more
than two trains can be sent out of Tulare
county daily during the shipping season,
though Superintendent Coddington tells US
that the Southern Pacific Company will be
able 10 take grain to tide water as
rapidly as it can be handled after itreaches
its destination. But were Tulare county
shippers to be furnished seventy cars per
day, it would yet require 203 days to move
the grain crop. Not all oft will be moved.
but from what we have given above it will
readily be seen that Tulare's grain crop
will cut no insignificant figure i'll the food
supply OF America ulare Register.
AN EASTERN DEALERS ESTIMATE OF OUR
FRUITS.
The following letter has been received
from a representative of one of the leading
New York fruit firms, who is now on this
coast:
1.-The position of California to the con
sumers of the East is to her advantage.
She is three thousand six hundred
miles from the toiling masses of the cities,
towns and villages adjacent to the Atlantic
coast. They are virtually the consumers
OF the largest amount of the productions
of this country. One of the most important
products of this State is fruit. Fruit culture
is at present in its infancy. The supply
the past year has been SO abundant that
the prices were quite unsatisfactory
to many growers. The question for the
future is to create demand equal to the
supply. The acreage of fruit trees that will
come in bearing the next few years, with
out corresponding outlet, will cause a
glut in the market that will render fruit
growing failure and financial loss New
York with its two millions inhabitants is
the financial center, the depot for foreign
fruits, the distributing point for all
Eastern products. Therefore California
fruits. to reach the masses, must meet its
competitors upon equal grounds with
equal prices, and at the center of the
market. Can this question be solved
The California fruits that have been dis
tributed to the East has been shipped from
Chicago at large percentage to the middle
man. 1t has been sent only in small
quantities to reap fabulous harvest. As
your fruits are one month earlier than
Eastern fruits, the first shipments will
bring fancy prices and will pay the ship
per.
But this is an outside question. You are
to look at the market for the whole season
when there is large amount of Eastern
inferior fruit to be marketed. With present
railroad arrangements a carload of fruit
shipped direct to New York from Sacra-
mento to arrive at New York in seven
days, will average fraction of four cents
pound for freight charges. In the fifteen
car trains that the railroad have offered,
your fruit can be landed in New York and
other Eastern cities at two cents a pound.
The time from Sacramento to Chicago is
eighteen miles All hour; from Chicago to
New York it is thirty-fve miles an hour.
If the Central Pacific with its connections
would make the same time as they do from
Chicago fruit could be shipped from Sac
ramento to New York in four and half
days. This would insure its prime condition
upon arrival.
Z" In the large and consuming market of
New York the price of a product in compe-
-tition with its like from adjacent countries
depends upon the best value for the least
money the amount of the production to
the demand the real intrinsic value of the
commodity in dollars and cents The world
oNihito lbah NdlllOl AiilS nave IIO ttiudI
for flavor and quality Therefore, in com
petition with Eastern fruits, it should bring
greater value. Experience has proven
that, with facilities from the railroads, it
can be landed in condition. The most i'm
portant item is the price. Eastern fruits
are raised in the warm climates of Florida,
the Carolinas, Virginia, Maryland Della
ware. The railroad freights from Florida
and Carolina nearly equals two cents
pound. Those sections produce the early
crop Virginia, Maryland and Delaware
freights are less, and we can average it at
one cent pound. The Pennsylvania Rail-
road has monopoly of all the fruit grow
ing section of the South. They give better
facilities for quick transit, but they
apply the anaconda rule TO the freights
At two cents 10 the grower, one cent for
packing boxes, etc. two cents for freight
he could land California fruit in bulk and
in prime condition in New York, at a cost
OF i've cents per pound. With this low
price of fruit TO retail at eight cents per
pound, an enormous demand could be ere
ated among the thirty millions of bread
winners, who are virtually the consumers.
1t could be readily supplied from the future
orchards of this State, and give an outlet
to the over crowded markets of the Pacific
slope; give an incentive for large produc-
ton and in the end large financial in
come to those engaged in horticulture.
The whole question boiled down amounts
to this consideration: Quick transit and
low prices for fast freight 1t depends en-
tirely upon he rates and Transportation.
The railroad authU1ities shipped last year
over its tracks to the East, eleven hundred
and twenty carloads of green fruit II can,
with liberal spirit and the positive aid of
low rates on their part, be increased to ten
thousand cars a season. 1t would make
Sacramento the greatest shipping point for
fruits in the United States, and bring to
her a new and abundant era of prosperity"
COST OF FooTHILL VINEYARDS
A writer, referring to the cost of putting
out vineyards in the foothills, cites the
Hillside vineyard, at Colfax Here 200
acres are inclosed with rabbit-proof
fence" but the writer says it is not en-
tirely proof against the incursions of rab-
bits The bottom board is u inches wide.
wire three inches above the board; five
inches above is the second wire; SEVEN
inches are allowed for the third, IL inches
for the fourth, and - inches for the fifth
wire. Rabbits are found not to pass
through between the base board and the
first wire, but frequently find their way
through the next 5-inch space, and when
run by dogs, also jump through above
The fence with cedar posts, bottom board
and five wires, and day labor in construct
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