Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-03-10

scnt IulnlInuu TitntI tndu IIic average,
and are positively within bounds. 1t is a
fact that whole rows of vines often produce
from so to $50 pounds each, and it is a
poor vine that won't yield 40 pounds.
Now, allowing but 600 bearing vines to the
acre and but twenty-five pounds per
yine and we have seven and one-half tons
per acre. These, at the lowest price per
pound, leaves net income of over $50 per
acre, or 20 per cent interest on an invest
ment in land at $3.50 per acre. The net
yield from the eighty-acre field of Profess
sor Brady, ex-President of the Bank of
Fresno, amounted in one season to over
$4,000. The average was twelve tons of
green grapes per acre, and the price re-
ceived was four and one-half cents per
pound in the ''sweat-box."
PEACHES AND APRIcoTs,
I. 3. Mathews, whose property lies one
half mile east of town, furnishes the fol-
lowing data: He has as fine and varied an
assortment of deciduous fruit trees as one
could wish to see. His peach trees are
now seven years old. They are of the
Crawford and Salway varieties, and bore a
little the third year, increasing each sue
ceeding season. They are planted 160 to
the acre, and last year averaged $50 pounds
of fruit to the tree, which he sold at net
profit of cent per pound or $500 per acre.
Sixty-nine Crawford trees FIVE years old
yielded 400 pounds each. His Bartlett
pear trees six years old, averaged rs
pounds to the tree and netted three cents
per pound, or $500 per acre.
Mr.. Matthews also has an excellent
orch rd of apr1a +raac ipol,,dtprr IUi1aeo
Bellhowers, Northern Spy, which, by the
way, ripens for late summer and early fall
use. For winter use the Ben Davis and
Kentucky Red Streak have proved ex-
cellent and at this writing, March 5th,
are firm and of good flavor. The Newton's
Pippin has proved itself to be good
keeper, but shy bearer The trees all
bear young, some the third year after
planting. At four years, the Ben Davis
averaged four 40-pound boxes to the tree,
that sold for from 81 to 81 80 per box.
Last season the tree averaged net profit
of over $500 per acre.
NJ. Sides has 400 apricot trees which are
planted in rows Is feet apart. They are
of the Royal and Early Morepark varieties
and are now seven years old. From 260
bearing trees, he, this year, dried over 1000
pounds which are yet unsold, but are
quoted to-day at 9910c per pound. Be
sides the dried fruit, he marketed between
$50 and $40 worth of green fruit. As it
takes four pounds of green fruit to make
one of dried fruit, the 260 trees must have
produced about four ton of green fruit, or
less than half an average yield and yet the
net profit is close to 800 per acre.
ALFALFA.
This is without doubt the greatest hay
grass extant, and yields quicker and larger
returns on capital invested than any crop
grown. 1t is adapted for either cutting OF
pasturage. Lew. Waggoner, seven miles
south, has eighty acres on which he pas
lures five head of horses per acre, from
seven to nine months per year, and from
one to two head the balance of the time.
h. +. Hammers, one and one-quarter
miles east, has seventy acres, fl ON which
he cuts three crops each year, aggregatine
six tons to the acre, and which he sells I'M
baled at an average of Sc per ton The
cost of each cutting amounts to 81 80 per
acre. The growth is such that a crop is
cut every six weeks. The first crop runs
about two tons per acre, and each subse-
| quent crop about ton and half -Four
crops can be cut every year, and often five
but after cutting three crops Mr. Ham,
mers uses his fields for pasturage taking
transient stock cattle and horses-at 81 sc
per head per month, pasturing four COWS
and three horses per acre. The crop is
generally grown by flooding after each cut.
ting, but in some instances by sub-irriga.
ton only.
OTHER CROPS.
Since the advent of irrigation, a failure
of any crops raised within the ditch bound
aries has been unknown. Some tracts are
yet devoted to cereals and produce good
returns. w. J. Colwell, five miles east OF
town, has 40 acres he uses for wheat
growing that yields an average of 16
bushels to the acre.
John Shafer, seven miles northeast from
town, has experimental with sorghum,
broom corn and sugar beets with extra
ordinary yields in quantity and of quality
unexcelled. Potatoes. sweet potatoes
squash, beans, turnips, radishes cauIi-
flower, watermelons, cantaloupes-in fact
every variety of vegetables produce ex-
cellently, both as to quantity and quality
j. A. Stroud, President Of the Bank OF
Selma, has tenants that harvest two crops
of potatoes each year. The first crop is
planted about the LIST of March and dug
about the LIST OF May, yielding about sc
sacks of 10 pounds each to the acre. The
second crop is planted in July or lst OF
August, and dug the last of October or LIST
of November and average about 30 sacks
to the acre.
VIM. T. Sesnon, nine miles northeast on
| Kings river, rented 80 acres to Cinnamon,
| from which they raised 4,500 sacks, aver
aging los pounds each, and for which they
received an average price of 4 cent per
| pound.
LANDS, WATER AND FUEL.
Every acre of land in this vicinity is
thoroughly adapted to raising any and
every product of which mention has been
made. The west branch Of the Center
vile and Kingsburg ditch distributes an
unlimited supply of water, available to
every square acre in this section. Prices
of lands vary from $50 to SIS per acre
according to distance from town and
canals. Water for irrigation costs, per
year, an average of from 30 cents to &C
cents per acre. Unexcelled water for do
nestle purposes is had from bored wells at
depth of from 80 to 80 feet, the water ris-
ing to within few feet of the surface and
thence is easily raised with a common
pump.
| Excellent oak wood for fuel is furnished
at from s. 80 to 81 30 per cord. Tree
growth is rapid, and small area devoted
to that purpose would furnish wood suf.
fieient for domestic purposes with but
slight trouble and expense, and in com
paratively short time.
A mulberry tree planted in March, 1881
which at the time of planting was les;
than an inch in diameter, to-day has q
circumference measurement of thirty-foul
inches Cottonwood, willow and poplar
produce about an equal growth Goa
ranges in price from SIS to $40 per ton.
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