Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-01-01

least four boxes to the tree. S. II. !
Daniels has five acres of trees which |
only two years ago he budded to Wash |
ingtcn 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
half acres of trees. Some of these are
not yet in bearing. He will have 400
boxes. Here is a hint as to the real
secret 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 900 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 4, ,120 boxes. This year the crop
is light. There will be ten or twelve
carloads. The trees are ten to seven
teen years old. William Whitaker's es-
tate owns seven acres of six-year-old
orange trees. The crop will be 500 boxes
A.C. Thompson has 900 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 we're 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 81, 700. This year
the yield will he g. 900 boxes. The Mes
senger says: ga tract of land comprising
this and another ranch was purchased a
few years ago for $1,000. One-half was
sold for $4,000, and four years later the
other half was sold for $22.500. 1t
couldnot be had now for less than
$60,000." The Seymour and Johnson
ranch contains seven and ia half acres
\ of oranges. The crop is light this
"A year-600 boxes. w. Nj. Chippendale
Vi has fifteen acres in young trees. He
81 will sell 1000 boxes of oranges. A..
81 s. Baldwin has seven acres in oranges.
b He will market 1000 boxes. Ernest
E Watson has 2250 orange trees, 500
tES OF which are fifteen to eighteen years
$A old. His crop will aggregate $500
III boxes. From two trees last year he
HsfH r,iaEoH 81 no
III trees from which he will harvest
M 1000 boxes. George Merrill has ten
4lsH acres of oranges which bear 1000
88 boxes. He has thirty acres of walnuts
zS from which he sold 81, 800 worth of
MI nuts. E. H. Boden has six acres of
Ss2 oranges and will have 800 boxes. John
III p. Dunn, the State Comptroller, has ten
Nh acres which bear 1000 boxes. Mr..
All Perry from ten acres will harvest 800
Nh boxes. Thomas Wardall has six acres
vi of trees and will sell 900 boxes of
fruit. Mrs. Stevenson has eight acres
of oranges and will gather 500 boxes.
H Smith " Roster have four acres and
will harvest l 900 boxes. Ruddy,
Burns & Smith have three acres which
bear 300 boxes. Monroe & Johnson
have three acres, and they will sell
N from their 800 trees a box to the
y tree. Captain J. G. Answorth, Of
Oakland, has five acres in young
orange trees, which will bear 150
S boxes. Levi Harris has ten acres in
GM young orange trees which will yield 500
: boxes. Joseph Wilson has four acres
GM and will harvest 500 boxes. A. San
defur has four acres which will pro-
&A duce 800 boxes. The Munroe, Stude-
III baker and Case ranch contains ten
acres of orange trees which will yield
-. 2 900 boxes. They also have eighteen
4" acres of walnuts which will yield them
I'll revenue of $500 per acre.
Nl We have gone thus exhaustively
.s through the list in order to show:
s First. That the profits from oranges
sS are universally large, and generally
fsl prodigious.
'% Second. That the scale bug can
"a be kept out of orchards by proper care
E and good cultivation.
@ Many of the orchards at Duarte
g41 are preparing to plant more orange
trees the coming spring. Some will
set out as many as 1000 young trees.
Three large nurseries at this place do
a thriving business in supplying their
neighbors with trees.
The cultivation of the orange in this
section is not dead, and will not die.
Where care is taken the industry is in
as fourishing a condition as it ever was.
Poultry Raising In Southern Call.
fOrnia.
No place in the world is better adapted
for poultry raising than Southern Cali
fornia. Many whose experience has been
disastrous in this country will be ready
to deny the truth Of this statement, but
the writer has had over twenty years
practical experience in the poultry busi-
ness, breeding both for fancy and profit,
and from observation is more satisfied of
it's truth every day. Nearly all the fail
ures can be traced to improper care, or
are the result of too close in-breeding.
A gentleman and we'll known to'the
people Of this section, gave the writer
the result of his experience. He started
with flock of thirty hens; while eggs
were cheap and butchers meat dear,
eggs and chickens were used freely in
his family, and at the end of the year he
had profit of $122, besides adding
thirty pullets to his flock. Many others
in this section have done as we'll as this.
Still, we would sound note of warn
ing to those who would conclude that If