Los Angeles herald., 1892-01-10

stand in the trial OF law case, in Los
| Angeles last Saturday, and was ex-
amined concerning his property. He
swore he came to Sierra Madre with a
consumptive wife and $3.50, in 1885.
He was machinist, but had to earn a
livelihood. 80 he became nurseryman,
and went to raising orange and lemon
trees, on six acres that was leased for
5000 year. He has sold all his young
trees at 81 10 each, and got the cash.
He swore that he now owns $4,000
worth of houses and buildings in Los
Angeles. and has $17 900 more out at in
terest, besides owning ten-acre orange
orchard which he has recently refused
to sell for $ll 900. Tt is unnecessary to
say that he is somewhat of shouter for
Southern California.-[Pomona Prog
ress.
FARMS CONTRASTED.
Rivera walnut growers shipped this
year forty-seven cars of nuts. The Wal
nut Growers association controlled thir-
ty-6ve cars of the crop for which they
were paid $5S, S,020.S3. There we're 6619
sacks in these shipments, and the gross
weight was 702 ,649 pounds. This makes
an average price of nearly $40 cents
per pound. The price paid for the nuts
of the association is always kept a
close secret until after the season is
over, but at the time the sale was made
California was able to state that the
price paid was not far from 81
cents, which was only half a
mill out of the way. If the nuts out
side the association sold at anything
near as good prices the aggregate in
come for the orchards of the place was
about $75 900. These nuts all grew on
little bit of territory, the limits of
which do not extend more than three
miles from the railroad depot. Only
a small portion of the land is planted
to walnuts, and the orange crop of the
same district usually brings in nearly
as much as the nuts. Thus from ter
ritory of less than ten square miles,
two crops occupying much less than
one-tenth of the ground bring in
$l50,000 q year. Wheat lands that
yield twenty bushels an acre are con-
sidered good, and 81 is good price for
wheat on western farms. To net $780,
600 would call for as many bushels of
grain, and that would require $4,000
acres of grain, or more than all there is
in the Rivera territory together. And
there is nothing left for seed for next
year. That is the difference between
farming here and there. So it appears
that ten-acre orchard in California is
worth more than a quarter section in
Illinois. To farm the ten acres is mere
pastime, and to farm the quarter section
is slavery. 1t calls for twenty times the
labor for half the returns.-[San Gabriel
Valley News.
GUARD AGAINST SCALE.
The following circular, issued by DR..
N. H. Clahin, horticultural inspector, is
being circulated in Riverside, says the
Citrograph. 1t applies equally we'll to
Redlands, and we would urge upon our
orchardists the necessity of the greatest
care, now that the picking season is at
hand: .4.--s.e,,-s.. ..-,.s -s 3
Z You are liable to have scale brought
to your trees on the ladders, picking
sacks or boxes of pickers. Allow no lad
ders, etc., to come to your place until
disinfected. Allow no picking sacks to
be brought. Furnish new sacks for
your trees. Make pickers brush their
clothes thoroughly before going to
your trees. Allow no boxes that have
been used to pick in, or to convey fruit
in, to be brought into your orchard.
Require pickers to report to you imme-
diately if they find anything which they
suspect to be scale.
Report, yourselves, to the inspectors
or at the city marshaPs Office anything
found which may require further atten-
tion. All packers OF oranges or lemons
are expected to report at once to one of
the inspectors or at the city marshal's
Office if they find any fruit with even
single scale upon it. III all growers and
packers in the city will cooperate with
the inspectors in the work OF extermin-
ating injurious insects from our trees,
we will keep them absolutely and en-
tirely free from all kinds of insect pests.
LITTLE GOLD MINE.
Duarte has 15-year-old lemon tree
that has yielded twenty-four boxes of
lemons since last January, and each
box has sold at an average price of $2 10,
says the Pomona Progress. The total
cash earned by the tree in one year is
put at $57. This is literal miniature
gold mine above ground. Just think
what a fortune there would be in an
acre of such prolific bearing trees. Lem
on culture never had such consideration
in horticultural journals as now.
There is no question that the lemon
will prove to be one of, if not the best
paying tree we have. The new methods
of curing them are bringing California
lemons up to the standard of the inn
ported article, and the growers begin to
understand the art of making lemons
marketable. The fruit comes along at
all seasons of the year, and people who
are fortunate enough to possess lemon
orchard have realized that they have
bonanza.
NOTES.
Mr.. @. E. Needham of Glendora has
been shipping tomatoes to Chicago the
past two or three weeks. Last week he
shipped forty crates of twenty pounds
each. They are packed in boxes hold
ing five pounds each, and sell there to
the wholesale dealers at So crate, or 15
cents a pound. Some of the first shipped
brought SO. % per crate. Last year they
brought as high as $3.50. Mr.. Needham
has shipped about eighty-five crates.
and my get off as many more. They net
him 6 cents a pound on the vines.
Rather expensive vegetables for the
Chicagoans, as they will probably retail
at about 25 cents per pound.- Azusa
Pomotropic.
There is, perhaps, no other fruit that
is so deceptive in appearance as the
orange. The majority OF people, unac-
ouainted with the slow progress of an