Los Angeles herald., 1891-08-30
Advantages of California s
Early Fruit Crop.
How Fruit Growers Were Set
Back This Season.
Prof. FerrOncitO's Alleged Remedy
for Phyll0xera.
A Warning Against Imported Stock-Pro-
gress Of Irrigation in the West-The
Rancher vs. the sportsmsn--
Notes Of Intefsst.

AAe'o AOo OCCu oO AdFOiaulC tuub idr tlle
season as usual. But this condition is
not permanent. The lateness of the
season has brought our crop in direct
competition with the heavy crop of the
east. In some cases California fruit has
been sold at the east this season at a
loss to the producer and shipper. This
was because our crop was about two
weeks late in ripening, while the eastern
was earlier by almost the same period,
says the Bakersfeid Californian. The
profits of our fruit-growers have hither-
to largely arisen from having possession
of the eastern market month earlier
than the local producers had anything
to sell. Because of extraordinary eli
matte conditions this advantage has been
lost this season. But it is no cause for
encouragement. The same state of
things may not occur again for dozen
years. The advantage of having later fruit
however, will not be lost. An important
part of our crop will 60 east after the
local product has disappeared from the
market. There is encouragement in the
comparative prices of California and
eastern fruits. There has been no COM
plant of the quality Of our fruit, and it
sells for three or four times as much in
the eastern market as the domestic pro-
duct. For instance, according to latest
quotations. a box of California peaches
weighing from II to 20 pounds brings
from so cents to 81, or between and s
cents per pound, while a 15-pound basket
of Michigan or Delaware peaches brings
from 25 to 80 cents. Among the many
superior qualities of the California fruit
is its better keeping qualities. If occa-
sionally the average conditions should be
misplaced by the lateness of our season,
the earliness Of the eastern or supera.
bundanca Of p1oduet thare- aud here IN
the same years, the growers should not
complain, for the same occasional pe-
riods of depression occur in all lines of
industry and branches of business.
Moreover we must begin to figure on
margins of profits more in accordance
with those that prevail elsewhere. We
must not expect to make q fortune in
one or two seasons from small orchard
or vineyard, but be satisfied with legit-
innate business profit upon our invest
ment and labor. Viewed in this plain,
way, there is certainly no
danger to be apprehended to fruit fu-
lures in California.
PHYLLoxERA REMEDY.
Viticulturists in all parts of the world
will await with anxiety the confrma-
ton of the report telegraphed from
Rome that positive and effectual
remedy for the phylloxera has at last
been discovered by Professor Ferroneito,
Of the Turin university, says the Chron-
icle. Many thousands of acres of vine-
yard in France and elsewhere in Europe
have been destroyed by this insect, and
while large sums have been expended
in the search for remedy, and large
rewards have been offered, so far moth
ing has been found to exterminate it.
1t is but few days since it was stated
that the vineyards of the Champagne
district had been attacked by the in
pest, and grave apprehensions
were expressed lest they should be en-
tirely destroyed.
In Australia viticulture in some sec
tions has been utterly ruined by this
pest, and no one informed on the SUBJ
ject need be reminded of the great loss
suffered in California from the same
cause.
Exhaustive experiments have been
made by scientific men in the hope of
an effective remedy, but
while success at times has seemed
failure has always resulted in
the end. France has been the worst
sufferer, however, and the government
OF that country has offered large re-
wards and stimulated in every way the
effort to find some means of putting an
end to the slow but sure devastation by
the phylloxera insect. It is to be hoped
that the reported discovery OF sure
remedy will prove correct. In case it
should no reward of either wealth or
honor will be grudged to the fortunate
as millions of dollars depend
upon the destruction of the phylloxera.
INFECTED STOCK. s
Horticultural Commissioner J. P.
Jones, of San Diego county, has warned
fruit-growers to be careful in purchasing
stock, in the following circu-
lars:
"We urge upon you the utmost care in
making future contracts for trees. Make
the acceptance of stock, and payment for
the same, conditioned upon the fact that
such stock shall be delivered to you alb
free from scale or other insect
pests. We take this method to put you
on your guard, as we have been credit
ably informed that certain dealers are
getting up their contracts binding the
purchaser to pay all expense of inspec-
tion and disinfection."
The second circular is as follows: cit
is of the utmost Importance to the
future of fruit growing in California,
that every purchaser Of peach, prune or
other trees grown on peach roots should
know that the stock is grown on this
coast from homegrown pits. 1t is q
well-known fact that that most insidious
and deadly foe to peach growing, the
yellows, and for which no remedy has
been found, is rapidly spreading over
the peach-Rrowing region Of the east,
causing the ruin and abandonmentof all
orchards whore it once obtains = foot
hold, and il trees ara imported from
those sections We will most assuredly
Get the dieeeso With tham and quits