Los Angeles herald., 1891-01-10

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watching your wealth accommodating day
by day and having to put out mini.
mum amount OF labor is captivating,
and the tourist, if he has money, sooner
or later falls victim and buys grove,
and, like the man in the story, is happy
for ever after. The facts which first at
| tract the buyer are the astonishing
prices that have been received. Thus, q
grove in Pasadenalcounty paid 81 800,
single trees netting $50 or So In 1889
a grower near Pasadena sold the oranges
from forty acres for $4,000 net. Don
Luis Wolfskill, of Los Angeles, received
for several years $25, 900 for the oranges
from twenty-eight acres. Similar in
stances could be repeated indefinitely.
and they have startled many buyer.
Today SO many groves have been planted
and are coming into bearing that these
enormous prices belong to past decade
yet that fortunes still are to be made
goes without saying.
When the wouldbe buyer asks the
price of orange land in Pasadena or
Riverside today he is told he can buy
improved land with large bearing trees
for from $500 to $2500 per acre, while
unimproved land can be had from $3.50
to $500 per acre. Land of this kind
should at the end of five years be pay
ing $500 per acre. Some men can produce
this and some cannot. There are several
enemies of the orange that have to be
fought, and the life of the orange-grower
i3 not all smooth sailing, yet when the
business is compared to that of
any fruit-grower in the east or north,
the conclusion must be that the South
ern California orange-grower has the
best of it.
The oranges which are now being re-
ceived in the east, are of several varie-
ties. The one bringing the largest
price, the largest and best in general ap-
pearance,is the Navel-a seedless orange
much in favor, and bringing higher
price than any other, even in
California. The Valencia is a fine
orange, while the Maltese Blood,
Mediterranean Sweet, st. Michael, Ash
er's Best, Tangerine or Kid Glove, Wolf
skill's Mayberry, Baldwin's, Wilson's,
Konah, Kerchevals, ,HQueen, Cooper's
Seedlings are all famous Southern Cali
fornia oranges, and many OF the foreign
varieties have been introduced. These
oranges from California arrive at for
tunate time for the consumer. The
Florida oranges are mostly gone, and
they do not compete, each having it's
season. The crop this season is an ex-
ceptionally fine one, and provides an
orange for almost every inhabitant of
the United States, and is suggestive of
what eastern men are doing on the Pa
cific coast.
The crop is the first after the full
effects of a year without the white scale,
and should be large and full. The scale
is white, cottony-looking insect that
had up to year ago attained such a
hold upon the groves here that orange
men in some sections were in despair.
The government came to the rescue and
did noble piece of work that will be
worth thousands of dollars to this state.
A scientist was sent to Australia
to find a parasite of the scale and
brought back few specimens of small
lady bug which IN Australia fed upon
the white scale. These little creatures
were placed on trees in Los Angeles, in
closed in nets, and allowed to increase !;
and in remarkably short time enough
were obtained to stock every orange
grove in Los Angeles county. The re-
suit was remarkable. The lady bugs at
tackled the scales wherever they found
them, and almost Immediately they be-
came a thing of the past. Trees that
had the appearance of being covered
with snow and were dying revived, and
with the change came renewed hope on
the part of the growers. The white
scale has been overcome; the red
scale still remains, but it can be kept
down.
The orange-grower's life in Southern
California presents a singular contrast
to that of the fruit-grower of the east.
Here it is perpetual summer, 80 far as
producing goes. During the summer
proper, or from April to October, the
farmer is devoting himself to his peach
orchard, his apples. pears, small fruits,
grapes, raisins, wines, etc. This over,
the oranges, lemons and lines are ripen-
ing, so that the entire year is occupied.
While his eastern brother is hauling
wood or housed by snowstorms, he is
picking his oranges; in other words, he
has in his estimation two chances to the
eastern farmers one, and is probably
making ten times as much money.
Probably no country is being so much
talked about today as Southern Califor-
MIA, yet it is not understood, and it is
difficult fully to describe the conditions
the tiller of the soil has to meet. TAX
ing the San Gabriel valley as type, to.
day the farmers are planting barley,
plowing, picking the orange crop, green
peas, Strawberries, and nearly all the
vegetables are in the market; flowers
are blooming out of doors and the coun-
try is taking on dress of green and will
soon bloom with wealth of wild flow
ers; yet everybody is wearing the
clothes they would in New York, and in
early morning and evening thick win
ter overcoat is necessary and OCCASION
ally, during the rain. fire in the house
all day. The crackle of wood fire in
the open CRATE may be heard, yet
through the window can be seen the
tropical Abyssinian banana, the fan and
date palm, rose geranium, variety of
roses, all blooming; hence it cannot be
very cold.
In truth it is delightful season-a
time of clear, beautiful, balmy days !;
days for open-air life, for wandering
over fields Of flowers, with the songs Of
birds in the ear, and the snow banks of
the lofty Sierras before the eye; win
ter that would be revelation to the
eastern farmer.
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