Los Angeles herald., 1891-05-18
AMONG THE RANCHES.
RETURNS WHICH SHOW THE VALUE
OF GOOD WORK
r.orcarn;ng olives-Returns From Twenty
Acres-Italian Methods With Oranges
Some Precocious Fruit Trees.

his dried fruit last season in this way, |
and was laughed at for his painstaking |
methods. The returns show which side
the laugh might be on. The product
was shipped east and sold, portion at
private sale, for the following prices per
pound:
Peeled peaches. ...........-...,......-.. 3ec 3ec
pnnas Pps,"SsS ..... zoe
And part of them in open market:
Peeled peaches. ........ ................ 5ogS5c
Apricots. 40
Prunes. s.............-. -...--.'... ,Ao13yAo
He is guaranteed, this year, for linn
tied quantity of the finest grade, large
sized, peeled peaches, from forty to fifty
cents pound.
He has sold his Washington navel or
ange crop for four dollars box, f. 0. b.
Pomona. As he did large part OF the
work himself, this makes his net profit
1896 a box over and above all expenses,
except the cultivation of the trees, which
would be merely nominal, since it was
mostly done by himself.-iPomona
Times Courier.
CONCERNING OLIVES.
Rev. G. F. Loop, of Pomona, says rid
ing for hundreds of miles through con-
tinuous olive orchards in France and
Spain, interrupted only by towns and
villages, he noticed that the trees were
invariably growing on reddish upland.
A number of the best-posted French
men told him that if Californians knew
what was best for their interests, they
would cultivate the olive, and that the
demand for oil and pickles can never be
filled.
A pure oil is odorless, and on this
account it is now coming into extensive
use for the extracting of perfumery from
flowers. Another use for it is the cover
ing of the brine in picking barrels with
five or six inches of oil to keep out the
air, thus preserving the brine and pre-
venting it from clouding.
y That one great mistake made in this
country is that when we import trees
from France and Spain and plant them
out here, we do so often with total dis
regard to the constitution of the particu-
lar variety.
1t has been demonstrated time and
again that tree which in its native
country fiourishes by the coast cannot
be planted inland and come up to the
point of excellence demanded by the
grower, or vice versa.-Farmer and
Dealer.
RETURNS FROM TWENTY ACRES.
Hon. A. Guy Smith owns twenty acres
in Tustin, and thereon he raised va
riety of fruits. During the past six
. years he has kept an accurate account of
the sales made and we present it here
with. 1t will be noticed that during the
years 'SS and '89 the yield is below that
of other years, and it is accounted for in
the fact that the grape crop was fail
ure, owing to the prevailing vine dis
ease. The vines being removed and the
ground planted to other fruits, the yield
is up to the average of other years. Here
are Mr.. Smiths figures based on actual
cash sales: 1885, $3l6S.57; 1885, $3673.3S; /;
$2328.71; 1890, $3474.25; total for six
$301O.13. Mr.. Smith further informs us
that the average cash expense for this
little ranch has been $1,000, thus leaving
handsome profits, and this was accom-
plished without extra efforts in any par
ticular.-Pomora Times Courier.
ITALIAN METHODS WITH THE ORANGE.
The United States consul at Nice gives
in his report to the government interest
ing information concerning orange grow
ing in the Rivera. Among other things,
he says:
FERTILIZERS are used for two definite
purposes and at two different epochs
First, to press the fruit of the young
tree with manure speedily decomposed,
which will furnish strong nutriment at
once to the roots, such as oil meal
cakes, guano, dried blood, stable man
ures. Second, for the support of the
manure of slow decomposition, such as
horn shavings, bones, woolen rags, hair,
hide, and even leather. These are
placed around the tree as far from the
trunk as the roots extend during the
autumn, and covered with earth to the
depth of foot.
"The object aimed at in pruning is to
bring the greatest surface possible ofthe
tree to the direct action of the air and
light. The spherical form is considered
best. To keep this form, shoots are
pinched off each year. In the early
spring weak and dead wood, forgotten,
useless shoots are cut out to let the
light and air in among the branches.
A sharp knife must be used"
PRECoCIoUs FRUIT TREES.
We have been treated to some object
lessons the past week, which have given
us an idea of the wonderful fertility of
the soil of this valley. On Thursday
Mr.. Judson brought down from his
Highland home ranch three twigs cut
from almond and olive trees. The olive
branch was cut from a tree planted in
1887, and while only nineteen inches
long and no larger than pipe stem, the
twig indicated by the bud that it would
produce upwards of two hundred olives.
One of the almond twigs was cut from
tree set out in 1887, and contained a
good, fat almond to every inch
of the twig-twenty-four in all.
The other was ten inches
long and contained eighteen remark
ably large almonds. This twig was cut
from tree set out in 1888. These twigs
were fair samples Of the trees which bore
them. Mr.. Judson's trees have had no
irrigation whatever, and healthier or
more vigorous trees cannot be found.
His older almond trees will yield about
twenty pounds to the tree. He has
foreign variety of olive trees three years
old aud in full bloom.
From Fred Curriers' ranch, near town,
comes twig eighteen inches long, cut
from three-year-old nectarine tree
containing thirty y-three full grown nee
tarines. Mr.. Curler has been COM