Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-09-15

for a thousand cattle to feed upon hay
which will be given them as fast as they
dispatch it. Ten men will be constantly
at work looking to the wants of the stock
The entire enclose is fitted up with pens
and 5000 feet of troughs are arranged
around the corral for pumpkin and corn
feeding. Mr.. johnson will be able to
feed thousand head of cattle very
handily, and already has large orders
| for stock feeding. He has one hundred
acres in corn, which looks splendidly,
besides having many acres in alfalfa,
barley, pumpkins, etc. He has suffi-
cient feed on hand at present to feed a
Thousand head of stock for three months.
He will begin feeding in December and
tattening for the spring market. This is
the only establishment of the kind in the
southern part of the State, and will pro-
duce a ready market for tons of farm
produce that now practically go to waste.
1t will also make Anaheinl quite a ship
ping point for stock, especially when
shipping beeves to market in the spring.
i Anaheim Gazette.
There are excellent reasons for believ.
ing that railroad running from Ana
helm to Chino and southwark to the
ocean will soon be an accomplished fact.
A sugar refinery will soon be in course Of
erection at Chino, Richard Gird having
already perfected arrangements with
Spreckels to that end. Tests made of
sugar beets raised in this vicinity have
been uniformly good, the saccharine
quality in many instances going above
the standard. Mr.. Gird has signified
his willingness to build railroad to An
aheim, running through Sequel caflon,
tapping the rich Olinda ranch, and,
coming south, passing through Placen-
tia and the country traversed by the
Anaheim and Pomona railroad. This
new railroad, it was understood, would
be dependent upon the result of our
sugar beet tests, which have recently
been made at Chino. The last
lot of beets put through the test
show that they possess high order of
merit. Fourteen per cent. ofsugar being
the standard, our beets have gone two,
and in some instances three per cent.
above that quality. The latest tests are
published elsewhere. Out of five sam
pies tested, only one falls below the re-
quired standard, and that only by frac-
tion of one per cent. The excellence Of
the others obviously overbalances that
deficiency. 1t is thoroughly evident that
sugar producing beets may be raised
here in paying quantities-an opinion
long shared by everyone conversant with
the rich productive soil of this valley. In
order to get our beets to market, an out
let will be made from this section to the
mammoth refinery soon to be erected at
Chino. This line of road, running south
or1 fhror,nb Gor1oo
minister to the ocean, will open up as rich
a section OF country as may be found
upon the globe. Shipping for sections
along this line will necessarily be of
some magnitude. The road would be
made to pay, there is no doubt, from the
day Of its inception. AS Gird is a man
of means, and has already shown enter
prise and push sufficient to secure con-
tracts for the first refinery to be built in
Southern California, this offer should be
made the most of by our citizens. The
erection of a refinery here is necessarily
thing of the future in fact. there is as
yet nothing settled about the matter.
Here is an excellent opportunity to have
at once another railroad and q market
for sugar beets-and tests have shown
that we can raise beets decidedly supe-
rior to those of standard quality Ana
helm Gazette.
The scale insects that trouble Califor-
mia are few in comparison with those
described in the books, and great care
should be taken to prevent the introduce
ton of more. The first appearance of
another kind should be stamped out, and
the stock On which it is imported should
be returned or destroyed. The State
certainly has right to protect itself from
any injury, if it has any rights at all.
theoretically every pest has its para.
site, but not practically. For years Cali
fornia has suffered from the devastations
OF the white scale, but relief has at length
come by the vedoha cardinals. The
State is still suffering from the greater
destructiveness of the red scale (Aspidi-
otus Aurantii).
There are several varieties of the red
scale ESQ called). The only one entitled
to the name is the one above mentioned.
There is a variety found in the San Ga
briel valley, known in the books as
Aspidi0tus .fcus, or the red scale of
Florida. 1t differs from the variety
found in Southern California in many
particulars-in size, color, contour, hab-
its and degree of destructiveness, and
probably in its parasite. 1t is not quite
SO large as the Aspidiotus Auranh. In.
stead of being red it is of an amber color,
semi-transpsrent. In contour it is per-
feet circle. In transparency it is equal
from near the center to circumference.
In habit, it frequents and covers leaves
and fruit, but is seldom found on the
body and branches of the tree, and
does not cause the leaves to
fall prematurely nor the limbs
to "die-back." 1t has an internal
parasite-a very small calsid fly, as found
in the San Gabriel valley. But the red
scale of Los Angeles, Vernon, Anaheim,
Orange, Santa Ana and Tustin has nc
parasite. have tried to make the uedo.
la feed on it, but in vain. No calsid fly
has been found in or on it. We are
experimenting with it under the direc'
tions of MIR. Coquillett, United States
Entomologist. The result remains to be
seen. For years the best entomologisti
have been corresponding with fruit pro
ducing lands for the greatly needed para
site. But up to this time none has beer
| found.
The Aspidiotus Auantti is a little
larger than the amber scale, of colol
more nearly red, with two concentrit
rings; the inner ring is thicker ant
deeper color than the outer, and is 6
perfect circle, except that it has pro-
truberance on one side, made by the
ovipositor. The outer ring is irregular ir
contour and resembles broken hoop. the