Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-18
The Scale Bug Defiea.


The editor of the Monrovia Mes.
senger has been inspecting the
Duarte orange groves. He finds
that the orchards of that place will
yield one hundred carloads, or $4,000
boxes of fruit this year. He give details
on which he forms his estimates. On
the Bradbury place there are three acres
of oranges which will yield 500 boxes.
These are probably budded fruit worth
SO to 81 per box. Mrs. Wilson has five
acres of fve-year-old trees which will
produce 250 boxes. These are also budded
trees, and are not in half-bearing. Thomas
Glenny has five acres of seven-year
old trees which will yield 800 boxes.
These also are of the budded varieties.
At IS per box his five acres brings him
in $2.40O. In two years more the crop
will be nearly fully twice as large as the
present one. DR.. Buttolph has Is acres
of trees six to twelve years old. He
will have 1000 boxes worth So 900. The
Messrs. Baldwin, Savage and Smith have
fifteen acres Of trees eight to fourteen
years old. They seem to have a poor
crop as they are set down for only 1,5O0
boxes. On another ranch Mr.. Bradbury
has fifteen acres of young trees which
promise l, 500 boxes. That is box to
the tree. Mrs. Crane has five acres of
fve-year-old trees from which she will
get 500 boxes. 1t must not be forgotten
that these trees will increase in fruit
fulness until they are twelve years old
Good budded trees, we'll cared for in
their mature stage, are sure TO yield at
least four boxes to the tree. S.
II. Daniels has five acres of trees which
only two years ago he buddei to
Washington Navels. He will get 800
boxes from these trees in their second
year. At So box this brings him 81 800
or $500 an acre-an excellent revenue if
there was no hope of it being three to five
times as large in as many more years,
Judge Norman has only one and one-h alf
acres of trees. Some of these are not yet
in bearing. He will have 400 boxes.
Here is hint as to the real Sc
cret of orange culture. The smaller
the orchard the larger by far
the returns. Mr.. J. S. Keefer
has ten acres just across the road, but
will get only 400 boxes. Captain H. d.
Fowler has thirteen acres set to oranges
and lemons. Some of the trees are
young and some are fourteen years old.
These Oldest trees produce four to six
boxes to the tree. He will market $500
boxes OF fruit. John Scott has ten acres
in oranges and lemons. His trees are
from one to ten years old, the larger
part of them being young. He will
have 600 boxes of oranges and 200
of lemons. Mr.. Van Dorm has ten
acres of oranges, from which he will
harvest 1000 boxes. Alexander We'll
and Eugene Meyer have twenty five
acres of oranges. From this there have
been harvested as high as seventeen car
loads or 6,12O boxes. This year the crop
is light. There will be ten to twelve
carloads. The trees are ten to seventeen
years old. VIM. Whitaker's estate owns
seven acres of six-year-old orange trees.
The crop will be 500 boxes. A. G.
Thompson has 600 budded orange trees.
The trees are mostly young-two-year-
old buds on three-year-old roots. They
will yield two boxes to the tree.
W. E. Pile and A. T. Morgan
have eleven acres put in orange trees.
The trees were budded only two years
ago, but they will bear 700 boxes. The
Newhall and Hall ranch has twenty
acres set to oranges and lemons. Last
year the crops sold for $500. This year
the yield will be 5000 boxes. The Mes.
senger says: ga tract of land ompris-
ing this and another ranch was purchased
few years ago for 81 200. One half was
sold for $4,000, and four years later the
other half was sold for $22, 500. 1t could
not be had now for less than $50, 900. /"
The Seymour and Johnson ranch contains
seven and half acres of oranges. The
crop is light this year-6OO boxes. w.
M. Chippendale has fifteen acres in
young trees. He will sell 1000 boxes of
oranges. A. s. Baldwin has seven acres
in oranges. He will market 1000 boxes.
Ernest Watson has $3.50 orange trees,
1,500 OF which are fifteen to eighteen
years old. His crop will aggregate $500
boxes. From two trees last year he
picked twenty-seven boxes. He has $50
lemon trees from which he will harvest
1000 boxes. George Merrill has ten
acres OF oranges which bear 900 boxes.
He has thirty acres of walnuts from
which he sold 81 500 worth of nuts. E.
II. Boden has six acres of oranges and
will have 600 boxes. John p. Dunn, the
State Comptroller, has ten acres
which bear 1000 boxes. Mr.. Perry from
ten acres will harvest 500 boxes. Thomas
Wardall has six acres of trees and will
sell 1000 boxes Of fruit. Mrs. Steven
son has eight acres Of oranges and will