Los Angeles herald., 1891-10-18
THE RANCHES.
Typical Facts About South
ern California Farms.
Fumigating Orange Trees in
the Daytime.
Some Information About New Fruit
Pests.
Interesting Facts About Lemon Culture
and Curing = Agricultural News
From Various Localities.
News Notes.

Some few days ago we published an
article from the Santa Ana Blade, says
the Riverside Press, stating that gen.
tleman had fumigated his trees by day
light with good results. Afterwards we
noticed statement that daylight fumi-
cation was not success. In the Blade
of the 9Th, we find the following, which
we commend to the attention of our
orchardists, for if the fumigating can be
successfully done by daylight it will
save considerable expense:
"Henry Leck, the owner of one among
the finest of the orange groves in the
vicinity of Tustin, commenced fumigat-
ing his orange trees in daylight last
Monday, using the same formula used
by Wall, Jones and Bishop for night
work, except that he uses four parts of
water (instead of three parts) to one of
acid. A Blade representative called at
Mr.. Leck's place today, and found him
and his crew of men busy working their
four tents-using the same tents that
the orange growers of that neighbor-
hood use for night fumigation. Mr..
Leck had fumigated about eighty-ive
trees up 10 noon today, with, to all ap-
pearances, satisfactory results. He Is
satisfied that the scale bugs, wherever
he has fumigated, are killed, and the
trees have not been perceptibly injured,
with the exception of two or three of the
first fumigated, and they have some of
the tender branches singed.
she claims that these bad results
were caused by the lack of water in the
fumigatipg mixture. 1t should also be
stated that in addition to the extra
amount of water used for daylight flu
migation piece of barley sack is tackled
to hoop little larger than the vessel
used for holding the mixture. This
cloth or screen hoop is wet with water
and as soon as the ingredients are mixed
under the tent it is placed over the top
of the vessel and is allowed to remain
during the fumigation process, which is
about forty minutes. Mr.. Leck expects
to finish fumigating his orange grove
this week, and orange growers who are
interested in the determination of the
scale pest will do we'll to visit his place
as soon as sufficient time has elapsed to
show results, that they may see for
themselves the thoroughness of the
work DONE"
NEW SCALE ENEMIES.
The steamer Mariposa had in her
cargo two small packages from Prof. AL
bert Koebele, who was dispatched some
time since on tour in quest of para
site enemies of the various insect pests.
His first stopping place was at Homo
lulu. and he found there two species of
coccinella, which are the deadly enemy
OF the black scale and also of the scale
that infests the apricot. The insects in
question are innocent looking grayish
ladybugs with black spots, and the
shipment consisted of fifty specimens of
both sexes.
AS was done with the vedolia. it will
be necessary to propagate the coccinella,
and for this purpose the consignment
just received has been sent to Mountain
View, Santa Clara county, where the
bugs will be domiciled in an orchard
and given an opportunity to increase
and multiply. By next spring it is ex-
pected enough will have been bred to
enable the state horticultural commits
sioners to distribute them wherever
needed, which is in great many locali-
ties.-[San Jose Mercury.
THE LEMON OF SICILY.
The ever bearing lemon of Sicily, ac-
cording to consular reports, produces
blossoms and lemons every month in the
year. Lemons are known as true and
bastard. The "true" lemon is produced
by the April and May blossoms, the
''bastard" by the irregular blossoms Of
February, March, June and July, which
depend upon the rainfall or regular irri
CATION and the intensity of the heat.
The true lemon requires nine months
May to January-to reach maturity. A
first harvest of the fruit takes place in
November, when the lemons are green
colored and not fully ripe. These are the
most highly priced and can be kept
in the warehouses till March, and come
times till May, when they are shipped.
A second lot is harvested in December
and January, but these must be shipped
within three weeks. The fruit of the
third harvest, which occurs in March
and April, is shipped at once, and en-
| Joys the benefit of the high spring
prices. The bastard lemons may be
known by the popularity in their size
and appearance. They are hard, rich
and acid, and seedless; will remain on
the trees for eighteen months. Four
times more lemons than oranges are
raised in Sicily, and the cultivation is
80 per cent. more.proftable.- American
| Grocer.
There are on exhibition at the fruit
store on the corner of Third and E
streets three winter pears from the
Jackson ranch in Mill Greek cafion.
The pears are handsome specimens of
fruit and weigh four pounds and three
quarters as a whole.-[San Bernardino
Times-Index.
The Pajaronian, published at Watson
Vile, is authority for the following: A
small black-ringed bug has made his
appearance in the orchards where the
horned caterpillar kept open house the
past season, and the new bug makes it
his business to crawl into every cocoon
where the horned fellow has deposited
eggs, and he cleans out the hatchery.
His only work at present seems TO be
the determination Of the eggs of the
horned caterpillar. A sample jar of
these bugs, showing them at work on
the horned caterpiller, has been sent to
the State university for investigation
One hundred sacks of potatoes to the
acre is the yield down in Gospel swamp.
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