Los Angeles herald., 1891-09-13

While in England he took sample
order of fifty barrels from one of the
largest houses in London.
BANNING's FRUIT CROP.
Banning is still busy with her fruit
crop. The estimates of quantity made in
the early part of the season were much
too low. Some orchards are yielding
double the amount anticipated. The
various varieties of plums invariably
bear heavily here. Last spring a gen.
tleman purchased plum orchard, in
bearing, for $400 per acre; he has re-
Gently sold his crop at net profit of
$500 per acre. We refer to Captain
Frazier. Part of this orchard was for
merly owned by G. S, LIE Baron, of your
city. We hope Mr.. LIE Baron is netting
5O per cent. per annum from the
! way, $500 per Tacre is by no means un-
usual in Banning. Indeed, we have
| known our prune trees to net $3.50,
Even in this so-called poor year some
of our leading orchardists have already
exceeded this amount. The Cotton can
merry looks to us for its annual supply of
plums-and has never yet been disap-
! pointed. Our apricots are nearly all
sold. An immense number were dried.
The lowest price obtained for dried april
cots was Z = cents. Mr.. Bibby refuses
to accept such low figure and was re-
warded by the receipt of II cents from
an Arizona buyer. Bibby paid the
freight which left him 81 cents
net. Our growers are just be-
ginning to realize that our pecul-
lar location, and railroad facilities, place
| the territorial markets at our disposal
for the green and dried fruit. as well as
for hay and gaain. We are thus rem
dered Independent, to degree, of Cal
ifornia buyers. At present the grapes
are being harvested. The outlook is ex-
cellent. One vineyard has started in
with 10000 trays. Banning scores a
success in wine grapes. No locality in
Southern California has hitherto been
able to compete with Sonoma in pro-
ducing claret-making grapes. sVache
Bros, of Mound City, declare that Ban
ming grown Zinfandels equal to those
raised in Sonoma. Messrs. Vache sup
port their assertion by reference to their
extensive experience, and further by
purchasing the entire Banning crop at
$1l per ton. Some forty carloads will
be shipped to them.-[ Corr. Times-In-
dex.
A SUGAR BEET FARM.
+ This is the second year of sugar-beet
cultivation on the Molera tract. Claus
Spreckels has an eight-year lease on the
place. On account of the unusual high
water last year the acreage and crop fell
short of reasonable expectation, some
waggish individuals putting the cost of
beets at one dollar apiece. But it was
not OF that character. 1t is stated that
there was profit, notwithstanding the
difficulties, on last years crop. The
narrow-gauge railroad was built, and
the subsequent business has been con-
| Quoted on a basis that would warrant
the inference of profitable investment.
There are now over 1900 acres in
sugar-beets on the ranch, and Judge
Gaffey estimates that some of the tract
will yield as high as thirty tons to the
acre. Shipping will commence Sep
tember 1st, and from that on 300 tons
must be delivered to the Watsonvile
factory daily until the close of the sea-
son.
The destined magnitude of the sugar
beet industry in California may be ar
rived at by little figuring on what will
be accomplished on the farm this year.
Assuming that seven tons of beets will
make one ton of sugar, and that the
average production of the 1900 acres is
1715 tons of beets an acre, the amount of
crude sugar taken from the place will be
5000, 900 pounds, on which the govern
ment royalty will be $4,000. If the
crude sugar sells for Az cents, it will
bring $500, 900 more, making an aggre-
gate of 1920 900. If it should take 200
men 200 days at $3.50 day to raise
these beets and work them up into
sugar, and if it cost $1,000 day to run
the factory for 100 days, there would then
be left out OF the gross sum 5000, 900
profit. The labor estimates and factory
running expenses are placed at the high
est notch in this calculation, and still
there is a wide margin of proft.-[Sali-
mas Index.
FUMIGATE IN DAYTIME.
j. B. Parker writes as follows to the
Anaheim Gazette:
The theory of actinic rays of light do
ing damage 10 the tree when fumi-
gated in daylight is busted. 1 COM
menced some experiments about the
Goth of August. l fumigated four trees,
all the same size, using four ounces OF
sulphuric acid and four ounces of cyan
ide. One of them I fumigated at 1
O'Clock, giving forty minutes; one at
o'clock, giving forty minutes. The one
at 5 p. In. was not burnt as much as the
O'Clock at night. These had four and
one-half times as much water as acid.
The o'clock in the day gave six times
as much water as acid. 1t burnt about
four inches of the tender growth, but
did not mark any of the fruit. l find
the bugs all dead. Iwould like any one
who wishes to come and examine the
trees and see for themselves. / have
known for some time that it was the
acid that does the harm to the tree un-
der the old way of mixing. tt goes off
like powder and carries the acid up in
the vapor and heat. 1t is heat rather
than the ray of light that does the mis-
chief. By adding a sufficient amount of
water it goes off slower and doesn't carry
the acid up. Under this plan we can
use more material, making enough gas
to kill the bugs and not injure the fruit
or tree. Last winter injured some of
my fruit. l do not want to claim the
daylight, or all the earth. The public
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