Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-08-08
L. J. ROSES SPEECH.
what Was Said Ar the Fair ON
Monday.

tne opening OF the FAIR on Monday DI
Senator l.. j. Rose. 1t was in type il
the HERALD for Tuesday mornings issue
but by an error left over. 1t is of tot
great importance to let it pass altogether
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Sirth Dis
trict agricultural association:
We again meet to hold our annual
tar. Looking through vista of twenty.
hve years, many pleasant recollections
are brought back to my memory.
About twenty-five years ago, the little
acorn was planted, which each year has
grown with increased momentum, and
now the tree has assumed fair proper.
tions, and each coming year makes it
more imposing and yielding increased
enjoyment.
Then, on every side the lands for
miles around were an uncultivated and
unclaimed treeless waste, which no one
cared to own at even two dollars an acre.
How changed all this is now.
Lands are now subdivided into lots
and selling at the rate OF IS, 900 or more
per acre. Beautiful avenues are now
laid out leading to this park, lined on
either side with shade trees, and backed
behind lawns and flower gardens are
beautiful villas of every style that archi-
tectural ingenuity can devise. AS you
drive along these well-kept and sprinkled
avenues the air is laden with the per-
fume of the orange, heliotrope, jasmine
and the rose, whilst through the open
easement floats the merry voice and song
of refined population.
A pitV iS a1ypOct RpOpEipU of orr uofoc
demanding more room to spread, whilst
on the other side can almost be heard
the boom of the waves as they break on
and cool with the salt laden
breeze, as it comes health giving
rustling through the trees. Nor is the
change which has taken place in the
features of the landscape more marked
than the change in the varied productions
of the various productions OF the farm,
the orchard. the vineyard, the improve
ments which have taken place in the
various breeds of all domestic animals,
and especially the horse. Then our
speed programme was very limited.
There was no thoroughbred in all the
boundaries of this southern district,
whereas we are now breeding them by
the hundreds, and of such quality that
they are the peer of the best in the world.
Then trotting race or pacing race
meant that race made in three minutes
was good time, whereas now we have
in the stabling at our track, horses which
hold the record of the world. Not all
have been reared in this county, but all
are California bred, and we have enough
good ones belonging and reared in this
district, to feel that in accordance with
the number produced, we have fair
share of the best, and when We remem-
ber Arrow, who is now flying at the
highest marks, with chip on his shoul-
Ter challenging all corners, and as we
know by the telegraph with no defeats
% date, to explain away, then we may
De excused if we believe that the highest
possibilities ere not beyond our reason
lble expectations. We are as yet small
beginners, but We are lay ing good found
atoms. The telegraph has flashed the
news that the highest priced stallion ever
sold is out of mother who was raised in
his county.
Fifty thousand dollars was paid at
auction for this stallion, and bought bv
q gentleman from San Diego, and this
might indicate that he was coming back
to this State.
We take much justifable pride in our
orange culture, our grapes and fruits OF
every kind, and taking all in all we may
be thought reasonable in our opinion
when we believe that we have advan-
tages certainly equal to any part OF this
continent.
1t is true we are meeting with some
drawbacks. We have to exercise inge-
nuity with wisdom to overcome some Sc
rious drawbacks, and as l have great
ove for fruit farming, and have given it
much thought, it may not be out of
place to give some theories which have
grown out Of observation, for it is by the
small accumulation of observation of
various individuals that remedies may be
found.
Two of the most serious draw. backs
which have developed themselves in this
county, are the cottony scale, endanger-
ing in many localities the growing of the
orange and lemon with profit, and some
unnamed disease which is causing the
dying of vineyards in some localities in
this county. This cottony scale insect is
a most astonishing prolific multiplyer,
and much experimental work has been
done by many intelligent horticulturist
and scientists, and as yet with no practi-
cal success.
l. myself, have expended several thou
sand dollars in spraying and fumigating
trees, and as yet with more injury to the
trees than benefit, until despair of any
success in either of these modes; but
have learned, however, habit of this
scale bug which is never varied from,
and that is, it always goes up and never
down.
This is valuable knowledge, for we
have only to guard for one direction. 1t
may fall off the tree, and they do in thou
sands, and many will hide and live for
time in the ground, but in the end they
find the trunk of the tree and 60 up
again. My cure would be to trim the
trees, stripping it of all foliage and small
branches, leaving only some of the larger
branches, and we'll cut back at that, then
to thoroughly wash the trunk and
branches that are left, to form another
top, with sal-soda dissolved in warm wa
ter; in fact, care must be taken that no
egg or bug escapes, for in this thorough
washing success lays, and Immediately
after washing and before any bug
can crawl up, an inverted cone
must be tied around the trunk
of the tree, so that as they
crawl out of the ground, up the trunk !,
they crawl under this cone shaped
bandage, and when they come to the
end, they will stop, for their instinct Of
never going back, answers here a good
nurpose. AS they accumulate they will