Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-18


so large an estate.
have trespassed too raueh upon your time,
and will close. have the highest hopes for
THE FUTURE OF CALIFORNIA.
Our boys are growing up to take our places.
| What can they do for living? The Trades
Unions shut them out from every chance TO learn
trades, if, indeed. there are any trades to learn
the professions of law and medicine are crowded,
and boy may be clerk for years, and yet he
is only a clerk. know OF no life comparable
10 that of intelligent and skiliful vineyardist.
| 1t will engage all his learning and bring him
into contact with the keenest and most progress
| i've minds in the State. He Will not rust out
| with forty acres of grapes about him.
| With these foothills of the lordly Sierras fes-
| TONED with vines and homes on every hillside
shaded By the green and gold OF the orange, and
| when our sons and daughters shall tlrn from the
| illusiye pleasures of city life to the enduring
| charm and contentment of country life, when
| wine ana oil are the gladness of our domestic
table, then the Golden Age will have come ;
then California will have achieved her destiny.
Remarks of Professor f. w. Hilgard.
On being introduced Professor Hilgard, of the
State University, said that he was not prepared
| to deliver address. He came Up from San
| Francisco, having spare moment, to see how
the citrus exhibit of this year compared with
| that of last season. He did not see last years
| exhibit until 1t was removed from this city to
san Francisco. He was pleased with this ex-
| hibit That of last year was good this one is
very much better. 1t seems inexcusable that
this country should have been so long neg
| lected. Our Eastern friends are just now being
enlightened upon the capabilities of our soil
| and
THE sALuBRTrY OF OUR CLIMATE,
| Facts long since known to our people, but un-
| heard OF outside our home circle. The unpeas-
ant odor of our exhausted gold mines has not
yet departed from the nostrils of the gold-seeker
| He yet believes that FL Dorado and Placer are
| not capable of any other product He must soon
realize, as all others now do, that the diversified
products of our foothill soil are more profitable
| than was ever the gold product. Upon the fruit
| and wine industries depends the future pros
perity of California. He said he had an oppor
\ tunity last year of testing some of the citrus
| fruit of northern California after it had been
exhibited at the citrus fairs both in this city and
San Francisco. The experiments could not be
| called a fair test. as the fruit had not been
plucked with that purpose in view, yet not
withstanding these facts
THE RESULT WAS HIGHLY GRATIFYING.
| The present boom in southern California was
| the result of two things: first, her meritorious
fruit and climate; second, judicious advertising.
| The citrus products of this section are good.
Some OF the best oranges you have here are ac
| cidental seedlings-fruit without name. Out
| of eighteen samples the average of acids was
| within .02 of per cent. of those of Riverside.
| That is not a bad showing. He could not say so
| much about the sugar for it was too near the
| time when the orange loses its sugar. One sam
| pie, however, came within one-quarter of one
| per cent. as much as the Riverside, which is an
excellent showing. This was
A BUTTE COUNTY SEEDING.
1t was very near the maximum of the Riverside
orange. You must understand that there are
| climatic differences between this section and
| that of Riverside. You must rot select the best
variety from Riverside, and expect that it will
do as well here as there. Some varieties of
| grapes do better in the south than here. Others
produce and ripen to perfection here that are a
failure in the south The best varieties of pears
and apples grown in the two sections are not
the same in either: A good fruit in the north
| may prove worthless in the south, and vice
Shnnld no an
| ton? The navels grown in northern California,
an Australian variety, are very different from
those grown at Riverside. They have more acid
and less sugar. He regretted that the samples
sent HIM were not accompanied with the name
of grower
AND LOCALITY WHERE PRODUCED.
He agreed with Mr.. Maslin upon the PROPOSE
| tion that wine-making was in the interest of
temperance. The p;ohibitionists were on the
wrong track. Teach the people to drink pure light
wines, and whisky and distilled liquors VIII be
discarded and the people will become more
temperate. Make good, pure wines and you
will aid the cause of true temperance. He
thought tie time would come when Europe
would import largely of California wines We
already have monopoly in the United States,
and soon will have an established reputation in
all the foreign countries
THE FOOTHILLS OF Ell DORADO
And Placer raise as good grapes and produce as
| good wine as any other portions of the State.
| One thing that had initiated against those
counties in the past was that tie wine made
there was inferior This, 1t has been ascer-
tanned, is not cause the grapes are not suited
for choice wiz es, but because the vlneyardists
did not have proper knowledge as to how TO
make good wine. Good wine Is like baby. 1t
must be nursed to make it good. Qrality and
| not quantity is what gives
REPUTATION TO A WINE COUNTRY.
In southern California they irrigate great
deal because they need it badly. In northern
California we need but little; our water comes
l lat hon
In setting out orange trees be sure and not get
trees that have been irrigated. Trees forced by
irrigation are not suitable for transplantipg.
Nursery trees should not be irrigated, and never
| irrigate tree if you can get along without it.
You who now irrigate might get along with less
| irrigation if you would cultivate the soil more
| Less water and more muscle expended on the
hoe and plow will produce harder trees and
| better fruit.
Additional Exhibits.
The following is intended to close and
round out our notes of all the exhibits. If
any have been omitted it is due to the fact
| that goodly number are not marked with
| the exhibitors name, and still more are
misplaced. The counties with small ex-
hibits have nearly all suffered by such ex-
hibits being scattered here and there, and
this is due in turn to their having failed to
reserve space and not coming in until every
nook and corner was crowded:
! SoNoMA-General NJ. G. Vallejo, oranges
and lemons.
SAN JoAQUIN-San Joaquin is the casket
of great portion of the San Joaquin val
| ley, drained by the river of that name. 1t
is as nearly in the center of the State as
can be. Its area is 1850 square miles, of
which ,210 is great valley Including 80
of adobe and $50 Of tule) and of
lower foothills so. while of coast
range mountains it has but 100
square miles. 1t is essentially a wheat
growing county, but it raises grapes large
! ly, fruits to a large extent, and oranges
lemons, olives, etc., to some extent. So
little attention has been given to citrus
fruits because the interest centers in grain
growing and the soil is not uniformly
favorable. The north end of the county
has q sandy loan, deep and easy to work,
and well watered, and timbered with will
lows, sycamores and oaks, and is capable
of producing the best kind of citrus fruits.
The west side of the section is the
great watermelon producing area. The
southern part of the valley, south
of French Camp slough and west
| from San joaquin plains, is level and
sandy and useless back to Pennington
black lands. This part needs irrigation.
West of the river the land also needs irri-
CATION. The foothills has soil from dark
TO llght loaIn ana RED graVelly land. Ihe
climate is warm and especially favorable
to earth growth production in great
iuxuriance. The county is rich and
prosperous one, and its lands as
whole capable of all vine, tree and
grain growth that is attempted anywhere
in the State. Its exhibits at the fair are
few, as little effort was made, and that by
only few and at a late hour San Joaquin
will not certainly be left behind another
time. She shows products as follows S.
S. Littlehall, Stockton, Preparturiens wal
nuts (early), French walnuts, very large,
Ceretena walnuts (late), English walnuts,
Bijou walnuts, almonds; W. J. Adams,
dried figs; Mrs. NJ. L. Melee, Stockton,
nuts, ounces; F. J. Littlehall, olives; B.
F. Bayley, clusters of oranges and baskets
of oranges Mrs. L. A, Stockton, fine clus-
tiers of oranges and persimmons; Alex.
Chalmers, oranges: H. S. Sargent, oranges;
W. c. Daggett, oranges B. w Bours.