Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-01-09
County horticultural Commissioners, has
been interviewed by an Express reporter on
the progress being made in the extermina-

County Horticultural Commissioners, has
been interviewed by an Express reporter on
the progress being made in the extermina-
ton of the cottoDy cushion scale. he says:
:" i don't think the white scale will ever be
fully exterminated Here in Los Angeles,
Pasadena or San Gabriel. or wherever the
white scale exists. the fruit-grower must
hereafter be provided with his spraying
outfit, the same as with his blowing outfit
or anything else with which he wishes to
carry on his business. 1t will require an
eternal fight to keep down the white scale.
One reason for this is that while the thrifty
and careful orchardist will have clean trees,
the improvident, which, like the poor, we
have always with us, will nourish the bugs.
We have seen demonstrated from our ex-
perience that the white scale travel about
mile in five minutes. Birds carry them,
and they 90 in different ways So long as
there is one such nest there Will be bugs"
FooTHILL ORANGES.
A wagon-load of oranges from the Ex-
celsior Water and Mining Company's Bo-
nanZa ranch, situated two miles below
Smartsville, were brought to town yester-
day, among them being a box of the fruit
sent to the Transcript by Mr.. Stewart, Secre-
tary of the company. They were brought
! up by II. B. Jones, an experienced grower
| OF citrus fruits, who is shortly to be made
| foreman of the ranch, w. /. Fontaine, at
present in charge, being about to remove
! to another part of the State. Finer oranges
were never raised anywhere They are of
| large size, entirely free from scale,
bright in color, sweet and of delicious
| flavor. The orchard is four or five years
| old, and this years crop amounting to
| about 10000, is the first gathered. 1t is
now clearly demonstrated that the foothill
country lying few miles below there can
compete successfully with southern Cali
foTnia in the matter of orange-growing
and we are proud of the fact Nevada
Transcript, December 31st.
Mrs. w. L. Bradley has presented us witt
a specimen of orange grown on q 10 year
old tree in their yard, which is rather a
| better favored orange than those usually
grown in this vicinity. The tree is from a
seed planted by Mr. Bradley Last year
! the tree bore single orange, but the pres
ent year it produced quite number Mr.
Bradley Will send specimens to the citrus
fair at Sacramento on the 18th instant
There are quite number of bearing trees
| III Chico, and another year will witness
still more, as the trees are just now coming
into bearing. C. w. Harris, near Forest
Ranch, at an altitude of about 1000
feet has produced some excellent
| oranges. They are said TO be of better
flavor than those grown in the valley.
Mr. Harris was in town with n load this
morning, peddling them out to our dealers
and families. He Will send goodly sam
pie to the citrus fair at Sacramento. They
are real beauties.-lCh Chico Butte Record
BLAcKBERRIEs IN WINTER.
Last Saturday the Republican received
from O. p. Baxter some specimens of ripe
biackberries and q cluster of ripe, second
growth apples, both grown on his ranch
near Applegate station. The blackberries
are of the Early Crandall variety. the same
as are grown by O. W. Hollenbecl1 in Au-
burn, and were described some time ago in
this paper as the Texas variety. This
variety is known by both names, having
been first propagated by the late DR.. Gran
dali from a root brought from Texas by
TREND good many years ago. They are
large and bear for a longer time during
the year than any other kind Mr.. Baxter
says he has gathered them from his bushes
IN January. Applegate's is several hundred
feet higher than Auburn, and these speci-
mems of fruit, at this time of the year, are
remarkable, as showing what can be done
SO far up in the foothills:-[Auburn Repub-
ican, December %, 1885.
GENERAL NOTES.
The Los Angeles Times saws that a band
OF sheep have been feeding in the old Bris-
walter orange orchard, which is full of the
cOttony cushion scale, and that the wool of
the sheep is full Of the same insect. and
that the sheep are to be driven down to
Santa Ana. That kind of work should be
stopped, surely
A letter from Ellwood Cooper. of Santa
Rarbara 70 7 A
" that the cottony cushion scale has in
tested the greasewood and sage under
growth in the mountains thereabouts. A
patch of chaparral 100 yards wide and
quarter OF mile long was literally alive
with the pestiferous insects until q noun
tain fire swept them ont OF existence
What further hold the scale NAV have on
the mountains Mr. Cooper cannot state.
Some of the orchards about Santa Barbara
are infested, but the owners are fighting
hard to keep down the scale.
writer in the american CultiUqtor tells
how he preserved apples and kept them
fresh and good for eighteen or twenty
months. He lakes the apples ripe and
fresh from TIC trees, in the fall of the year,
but lite III the season, and covers them
With dry, iine coal ashes to depth of four
teen 10 eighteen inches He has apples
that have passed two winters thus pre-
served, out ol doors, exposed 10 rain and
frost, and vet the fruit cane Aut fresh and
fair lie thinks other articles inav be
kept in the same manner.
In experimenting with Paris green Tor
TIE Goblin moth 81 the New York Ae.i-
culture Experiment Station. every alternate
tree IL The row was spfiyed with Paris
green and water, while the other ;rcc- re-
ceived no treatment. TIE faiit Guon
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