Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-07-03
Important Matters Con idered by the
State Board of EnIticuI1ure

state B0aru OF horticulture.
SAN FRANCISCO, July ID. - The State
Board OF Horticulture met in semi-annual
meeting to-day, at headquarters, 220 Sutter
street Presid' Mt Ellwood Cooper presided.
There were present Commissioners Block
OF Santa Clara, Chapman of San Gabriel,
General Vallejo of Sonoma, Peck of Pen
ryn, Boggs OF Napa and Inspector Klee
There were several visitors, among them
Il. }. Wlckson of the University of Calfor-
mia, and E. Alleghretti. Flags draped over
desk and platform and pending from the
ceiling, gave the rooms bright and patri-
otic appearance.
SSecretsry Lelong in his report devoted
considerable space to olive culture. There
is perhaps no branch of industry that is
more prominent before the people than
olive culture. New plantations have been
started nearly all over the State, and many
others would have been started if the trees
or cuttings could have been obtained The
culture of the olive has become one of the
regular industries in this State, and of the
great future which awaits its culture there
Is no doubt. Olive-oil making cannot be
oVerdone. As the production increases so
will the demand and there cannot be
enough produced to supply the demand for
many years to come. | am constantly re- |
celying letters asking where pure California
olive oil can be got in the East. This goes
to show that the Eastern consumers of |
adulterated oil are beginning to rebel
against it and seek for that which is pure
and healthy:
The difficulty in getting pure oil in the
market was referred 10.
The following are those that are engaged
at present in the manufacture of pure olive |
oil in this State Elwood Cooper. Santa
Barbara, Santa Barbara county; Frank A. |
Kimball, National City, San Diego county; |
Colonel George F. Hooper, Sonoma, Some |
ma county; Edward f. Goodrich, Quito |
Olive Farm, San Jose, Santa Clara county; |
J. r. Wolfskill Winters, Yolo county: |
Juan Gallegos, Mission San Jose, Santa |
Clara county; E. W. Holmes, Riverside,
San Bernardino county; General John Bid |
well, Chico, Butte county; DR.. II. Fl. Clark, |
Auburn, Placer county. There are others |
who have large plantations, and many
others who have in recent years embarked |
in the business and have largely planted |
olive trees, but as yet they have made little |
or no olive OIL the fruit being used for
picking purposes. Many new orchards |
have been planted in the interior valleys. |
These trees are young, and many have be- |
gun to bear fruit this year. There is no
doubt that in few years there will be an
abundance Of olive oil produced in this |
State as all these plantations are doing ex-
adapted to their culture.
The comparative advantages Of different
varieties were considered, the Secretary
giving his Judgment in favor of the Mission
variety. Two new varieties, one suggested
by the Italian Chamber of Commerce and
another by G. P. Ri1ford of Sonoma, were
mentioned.
The Secretary reported having found five
brands of spurious oil for sale IN the local
ma bot 1F IL Il
as having been put up at Sierra Madre [!
Santa Maria and from San Bernardino |
olive grove. AT Sierra Madre there are but |
feT olive trees planted, and but few, as yet |
bearing any fruit, and what olives are pro- |
duced there have been picked At Santa |
Maria there are but few olives, excepting |
the ~ " orchards that in the last five years |
have assD planted. In San Bernardino |
county out one person has ever made any |
olive oil, and that only small amount, |
namely, E. w. Holmes, of Riverside. |
There are many trees planted in that |
county but the fruit is used for picking, |
so you will see that it would be impossible |
for those brands to have been produced at |
either Sierra Madre, Santa Maria or in San |
Bernardino county. Tests showed that all |
samples of these oils contained various |
proportions of lard and cotton seed oils. |
That labeled Pure California Olive Oil |
iTOIn odn bernafO1DO OllVe GrOye, showed |
no trace whatever of olive. That labeled !
Santa Maria Pure California Olive Oil" |
showed 10 per cent. olive, the remainder |
seed oils and lard. That labeled " Coburn's |
California Pure Olive Oil" showed 80 per |
cent. olive oil, 35 per cent. lard, 81 per |
cent. seed oils. That labeled :" Red Cross !
Brand California Pure Olive Oil" was re-
ported by Professor Hiigard of the Uni |
versity to be grossly sdulterated. 1t bore |
certificate of purity from Professor Rilgard |
which that gentleman says is wholly un-
authorized. The sanp e labeea Sierra |
Madre California Pure Olive Oil" showed |
10 per cent pure olive oil.
1t was agreed that the question OF s9uri-
GUS oils is one OF the greatest importance |
MIR. Cooper thought that laws against oil !
adulteration should be made at Washing
ton. Mr.. Cooper, Professor Wickson, Of |
the University, and Inspector klee, were
appointed to act as committee TO report |
upon the oil tests made By the Secretary.