Los Angeles herald., 1891-08-23

lists by being slow in making their con-
tracts for men can break the Chinese
combine and secure help at reasonable
rates.
A NEW FODDER PLANT.
The Mildura, Australia, Cultivator
gives the following account of plant
which is being introduced in that coun-
try that might prove valuable for the
dry lands of this part of the state. The
plant is named Pentzia Virgata, and is
native of South Africa, called there the
"Sheep Bush" 1t is bush with small
branches and little yellow-colored
flowers. 1t grows in very dry situations
and is recommended highly as fod-
der plant on the western plains of the
colony. Sheep and cattle in South Al
rica are very fond OF it, and mutton
grown on it brings better price in
Cape Town than does that fed on the
ordinary grasses. AS the bush grows
the branches bend over on the ground,
and where it touches it takes root. 1t
is therefore constantly spreading. The
more it is eaten the more dense does the
foliage become. 1t is recommended that
the plants be first raised in boxes and
planted out, when they are two or three
inches high, into rows five feet apart.
Besides being useful as fodder plant,
it is also recommended for growth on
sand hills. 1t readily binds the sand
together, and in time the the most bar
rem area is converted into first.class
pasturage.
RANCH NOTES.
| Forty thousand acres of Lima beans
are said to be growing in Ventura
county.
All the young orchards which were set
| out in the East Riverside district this
season are doing finely.
The walnut crop about Fullerton is re-
ported as coming on finely; the nuts are
unusually large and the yield is heavy.
Mr.. G. F. Van Velzer, of Fallbrook
has just harvested over 100 sacks OF nice
large potatoes from less than an acre OF
| upland.
If the irrigation bonds are foated be-
fore January, over 1000 acres will be
planted to fruit next spring. Fallbrook
Review.
1t is stated that the walnut crop of Ri
vera this season will amount to fifty car
loads. They are worth about $4,000 q
car, or total of 100000.
1t is stated that mustard water sprink-
led about plants and trees will keep
away worms and insects of all kinds. A
simple remedy, easily applied.
Last year the east shipped more than
las, 900 sacks of potatoes to California.
This year California has shipped to the
east over 81 900 tons of excellent spuds.
The balance of trade is decidedly in our
favor.
Starch factories ought to be estab
lished in Southern California. There
would then be no glut in the potato mar
ket, as there would be home market
created for them, and that is what our
producers need most.
Weasels have been introduced into
Riverside orchards as enemies OF GO
pliers, rabbits and mice. A local paper
says the blood-suckers have cleared the
rodents from seed houses and from the
soil. Before this when tracts were irri-
gated an average of twenty gophers
day would be flooded out, whereas none
come out since the weasels have been at
work.
Small fruits, and more particularly
.blackberries, have done remarkably
well this season, the yield being large
and the fruit OF fine quality. Small
| fruit is certainly profitable crop, and
many growers are doing nicely by culti-
waiting rows of blackberries and rasp'
berries between the rows of young trees.
It's money-making scheme. Orange
Grower.
We learn that nurserymen are con-
tracing to sell native orange trees for
next seasons planting at one dollar
each. 1t is probable that 750, 200 citrus
fruit trees will be set in this county dur
ing the spring OF '92, which number is
greater than that of available native
trees. The deficit will be met with
Florida stock, the importation OF which
will probably cease after next season.
[Ontario Observer.
The difference in the value Of fertilz-
ers is we'll illustrated by H. o. Mayn-
! ards fve-acre grove OF orange trees,
one half of which is fertilized with
sheep and the other half with horse
manure. The trees fertilized with the
former are not only more thrifty, but
they are better set with fruit. Any
kind of fertilizer is, however, better
than none, and the sooner certain
groves are fertilized the sooner will they
become paying property. Every $1,000
invested in fertilizers in this colony will
increase the value of the crop $4,000
-IOntario Observer.
1t is stated that the manufacture ol
perfumes has begun at Los Gatos. One
woman has sixteen acres of roses, geran'
iums and other perfume-yielding plants
and trees. 1t is found that the blossoms
which have fallen from the orange trees
after having subserved their purpose ir
begetting the fruit, Yields large percent
age OF the most delicious perfume. Ii
view of the fact that tons of these bios
SONS may be gathered up from under
the orange trees at the proper season, il
would seem that lucrative and inviting
field of industry is here brought to view
The potato crop in Southern Califor
MIA, principally in Los Angeles and Or
ange counties was simply enormous thi
year. 1t is estimated there were 400(
carloads, and that about half of that il
still in the country. Potatoes gradual,
declined in price, until now they arr
worth only from % to 35 cents hun
dred, and as freight rates are high, il
does not pay to ship them east. Thos'
who shipped early in the season re
ceived from go to rs cents per hundred
and made money-big money. But a
soon as eastern potatoes came in tina
shut out the California product Riv
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