Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-06-30
PACIFIC COAST.
IOWA BIDS HIGH FGR STOCKTON
BALL TALENT.
Interesting Meeting of the State
Horticultural Society-A Stage
Driver Suicides.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO TIE EroonD-gs1oa.l
THE FRUIT MEN.
Matters Considered at the Meeting of the
Horticultural Society.

San FRANCISCO, June 29.h.-Atthe regular
| monthly meeting of the State Horticultural
| Society to-day, \. T. Hatch of Suisun ex-
Aibited to the other fruit-growers present q
hox full Of e new variety OF apricot-the ST
AMBROSE. 1t is a large full fruit, and
rlfens better and somewhat earlier than
the Moorpark Mr.. Hatch obtained the
! stock from John Rock few years ago, and
| budded 1t to peach stock.
, Mr. Collins OF Haywards showed some
| samples of cultivated service berries. u
They grow wild in all parts of the State
| They are dark purple, and when cultivated
grow 10 look much like huckleberries, only
larger. They are edible and make good lam
W. N. Bramhall, editor of the California
| Fruit GrOleer, was elected 10 membership,
Fred Russell Of Haywards. son of the late
| Joel Russell, was proposed for member
ship.
Professor C. II. Dwinelle of Santa Rosa,
by letter, suggested as a theme for the next
meet, Is IL Desirable that the Sale OF
Fresh Fruits at Public Auction Should Be
Tried in San Francisco?"
Rev. j. c. Burgess of Danville asked by
letter tor some explanation of blight on
his pear trees.
Secretary Wickson expressed the opinion
that the blight is the same that is trouble
some, more or less at all points along the
coast. 1t Is sometimes known as smut.
THE AUCTION PLAN.
Mr.. Hatch, by request, gave some details
of his recent trip TO Chicago. He found
that fruits sent East had gone thus far bet
ter than IN previous seasons. The cool
weather was the reason for this. Fully
three times as much fruit has gone East
this season than in any corresponding pc
riod recently. The prices received have
been fully twenty-five per cent. more than
in former years.
Regarding the auction plan he was of
the same opinion as before he went from
here, that it would always be success if
left in neutral hands. The strong point
about the auction plan is the speedy dis.
posal of damaged fruit. 1t gets in that
way into many hands, and bad fruit may
be removed from the packages. Fruit
| ought always 10 be sold Immediately, and
this can be best done by auctions. Mont
gomery & Co. are the Chicago auctioneers.
LARoR- SAVING.
The subject appointed for the day, La
Dor and Labor-saving Devices" was taken
up. Mr.. Hatch explained that he employed
| mostly Chinese, paying 81 a DAY. The
men work usually from sunrise to sun
down. The producers about Suisun have
found it impossible to get enough white
help. Mr.. Hatch has offered wages, cut
ting fruit by the 100 pounds, so that a
young man could make 81 to 81 % q day,
and yet could get no help. At present be
was confident that all white people who
will work may find it in the Vaca valley
fruit region.
Mr.. Bramhall and Mr. Shinn spoke favor
ably of negro help, and the former spoke
of Mr.. Buffers successful experiment with
negroes at Fresno. DIR. W. z. MAY, a
Southern Pacific travelling agent, has agreed
to get negro help for California producers.
bringing them direct from the South.
GOBLIN MOTH REMEDY,
Sent from Vienna by David Lubin, was ex-
hibited. 1t is a sticky substance, a sort OF
glue, which is applied around the trunk OF
the tree IN two bands, one about foot, the
other about twenty inches from the ground.
Mr.. Lubin obtained the solution from Pro-
fessor Adolf Ritter Won Gutenberg, of the
Vienna HochSchuIe .tiT Bodencultur. 1t is
applied to tree warm with brush or cold
with flat piece of wood Mr.. Lubin gives
the recipe for the solution as follows:
Resini PM, 300; pix oil, 200; oil paraffine,
100; oil reparum crudum, $50. Heat the
above until assimilated, and then add
| acidunl SdIycidicum 05 parts After this
stir thoroughly. In another boiler mix
common terebinth, 100; raw vaseline, 80;
yellow beeswax 100; balsam gurgum. 90.
Heat and stir. ana when assimilated mix
with above first named mixture and stir
| thoroughly. Use oil for softening. This
remedy will probably serve against all in
sects that crawl up tree.