Los Angeles herald., 1891-12-20

in height. The tree looks much like a
large seeding orange tree, except the
leaves are broader and the foliage not
quite 80 dense. However, the fruit
takes the place of any lack of leaves,
and there are enough of either to make
good shade. H. f. Van Deman, the
United States pomologist, says of the
fruit: 1t is fine; you can't plant too
much OF it.. There is rapidly increas-
ing demand.
There are also many other fine fruit
ehade trees to plant that are both profit
able and handsome, and supposing a
weary traveller does get little OF the
fruit, you are only doing good to your
fellow beings to plant for street shade
those trees that are of benefit to Quench
thirst or hunger, as we'll as for shade,
and if the right sorts are planted profit
may be obtained from them besides, by
selling the fruit that the passer.by can
not reach from the ground or wagon;
and in case the grape fruit tree is planted
the largest portion of the fruit will be
left to be gathered by step ladder. Or
if particular about raising fruit for 9th
ers to eat as they pass, plant the lemon
and but few will be taken. If all will
plant some kind of deciduous or citrus
fruit trees along the street adjoining
their property, we shall in time fully re-
alize the dream OF the Orient.
HOW STARCH is MADE.
The Hueneme Herald describes the
process of making starch at the factory
at that place as follows:
After the potatoes are unloaded they
are placed in large washing trough fed
by strong force of water and thorough
ly washed, revolving paddles carrying
them gradually to the farther end OF the
trough. Here they are raised by means
of scooplike elevator and carried into
second washing trough and subjected
to further cleansing. Thus cleaned,
the potatoes pass into CRATER, which
consists of revolving cylinder set with
fine teeth like those of saw; the
grated mass then passes down over lot
of sieves fed by small streams of water,
the pulp being carried off by means of a
sewer, and the water and starch falling
through the sieves into trough.
From this the water and starch are
led into settling troughs, through which
the whole flows very slowly. By the
time the $50 feet of troughs have been
traversed all of the starch has settled,
and the water is run off. The starch is
then shoveled into washing tank and
fresh water turned on. Here it is
stirred, the impurities rising to the sur
face. These are removed, and the bal
ance is carried by siphons into two
other tanks, where the operation is re-
peated. The starch is then allowed
about four hours to settle. After this
it is strained through a centrifugal
strainer, and finally carried by means
of an elevator into the second story.
Here it is put on cars and run into the
drying room, where it is kept about
twelve hours. 1t is then placed in
rolling machine and made into
small pieces. Boxing is the next opera
ton, and then the starch is ready for
the market.
PROLIFIC ORANGE TREE.
Pomona boasts of a Malta blood
orange tree that was set out one year
ago last spring as an ordinary budded
tree-but l year old on 4-year-old
root-that is now maturing 206 good
sized oranges. Here is chance for the
figure fiend to get in his work, which
would read something as follows: A
hundred-acre orchard would contain
10000 trees, and eighteen months after
planting it would yield 2,060, 900 oranges.
and counting 140 oranges to the box
this would make 14714 boxes of fruit,
worth at least So box on the tree,
$44, 142-an average of SAL. AZ per acre.
What is such an orchard worth, and
what will it bear in ten years -FOrange
Belt