The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-05-31
FARM And ORCHARD.
California Fresh Fruits for Liver.
pool and London.
Protection for District Reputation -
The World Moves-To Grow Orange
Trees From Seed - Miscellaneous
Notes and General Farm News.

Trees From Seed = Miscellaneous
Notes and General Farm News.
It will be remembered that in the issue
of May 18th the California Fruit GTOa0er
announced the probable perfection of ar
engagements whereby fresh California
fruits were TO be put upon the markets of
Great Britain through means of rapid
transit inaugurated by the California
Fruit Transportation Company of Chi
cago. We are now pleased to announce,
on the authority of f. r. Hutchins, Vice
President of the company, that the entire
arrangement has been perfected whereby
the steamers Majestic, Teutonic, Britanlc
and Germanic, of the White Star Line,
viii extend the admirable refrigerator
service of the California Fruit Transpor-
tation Company to Liverpool and Lon
don. Mr.. Hutchins suggests, and we
wish to reiterate our statement Of two
weeks ago, that only the best fruit
handled in the best possible manner
should be thought of in connection with
this foreign trade. 1t would be mani
testify loss OF time and money, as well
as a stupid neglect of opportunity, to
undertake TO put an inferior article upon
that distant market.
Each of the vessels above named is pre-
pared to carry live carloads OF fruit, and
The itinerary is such that this amount
may go out every week. Mr.. Hutchlns
says: arrangements have been per-
fected with the Southern Pacific whereby
an export train will leave Sacramento
each week and reach New York SIX days
thereafter in time for the weekly sailing
OF the steamers. We have arranged tor
through bills of lading, so that 1t VIII be
as convenient and easy for California
shippers to cOnsign to Liverpool and
London as to New York and Boston.
Fruit will be catalOgued and sold in their
auction houses the same as IN Chicago,
New York or Boston"
Our direct Liverpool adYices state that
Florida straw berries We're sold 10y James
Adam, Son d Co., of that city, seventeen
days from the vines. The Irst consign-
ment was carried by the Majestic and
comprised l47 crates of Strawberries, -
cases of tomatoes and 20 barrels Of pine
apples. The tomatoes were in fine con-
dition and brought good prices, the straw
berries sold well, but the plneappleS met
with limited demand.
1t is MIR. Hutcbins' opinion that the
trade thus opened will result in an outlet
OF 1000 10 1000 cars of fresh fruits each
ocdSOL, IL lIlOS0 W no IdIlNIl6 ltlb liulL OD-
serve the requisite care in all the details
Of picking, packing and shipment. We
earnestly urge upon packers ana growers
alike, the prime necessity OF making the
best possible first impression with our
fruit, and thereafter TO keep ii up to
standard in all respects. This done, we
may confidently look forward TO an i'm
nense market for our fresh fruits beyond
the Observation-Disclosures Fruit-Grower
PROTECTION FOR DISTRICT REPUTATION.
While the law of trademarks may give
a reasonable protection to individual OF
corporate reputation, it is not adequate 10
reach districts or special localities and
communities. The need of such protec-
ton under the law is ielt in many, If not
all, OF our most progressive truIt-grOWing
districts. This evil has doubtless been
felt most keenly in the orange growing
sections OF the State, but it is more or less
a subject of just complaint from nearly
all well-known fruit yielding centers. Any
locality which, by unusual diligence and
industry in special direction, achieves
the highest success in fruit production,
should certainly be entitled 10 the COM
Inercial value of such Well-earned sue
cess, and inscriptions persons should be
by law estopped from trading for their
own advantage in the euYlable reputation
of another person or place.
To this end we favor Il stringent law,
liking heavy and certain penalties for the
false branding Of fruits OF all kinds rela-
tive to the places where produced and
packed. The effect of such a law would
he manifest for good in at least two di-
Tections. II would serve TO protect merit
against fraud, and would also serve as a
stimulus 10 producers and shippers OF
fruit 10 emulate the best output OF rival
sections. All objections to such law,
we conceive, would come from sources
whose supposed self-interest would out
weigh the higher considerations of justice
and fair dealing. Let truIt-gTOweTs and
packers all along the line make vigor-
Gus and persistent move upon the next
Le islature with view to securing law
which, while atfording adequate protec-
newer sections in securing the full meas
IRE of credit to which their products en-
title Unconstitutional Fruit-Grower.
THE WORLD MOVES.
A grape-grower OF the Lake Keuka n.
" district shipped his first crop of fifty
pounds TO the city of New York in 1915
by way of the Erie Canal. The fruit ar
rived in good condition, and the commits.
sion houses handling il wrote encourag-
iugly to the shipper advising further con
signments. The next year the grower
was able to ship some 200 or 800 pounds,
which, however, overdid the business
and the market broke down under the
pressure. FOTty-fiYe years later, in 1890
New York, Boston and Philadelphia took
about 10000 tons of table grapes from the
same section, and there were produced
in what is known as the New York State
district 9S,OGO,OOO pounds for that year.
The world moves Between the diet OF
hoe-cSke and raw whisky of half CEN
fury ago and the civiliZing diet of fruits.
grains and wines of California to-day,
yawns wide chasm. Let US be thank
tul
TO GROW ORANGE TREES FROM SEED.
In reply to a request from valued cor
respondent at CupertinO, we give the
following directions for sprouting orange
seed: Secure the seed as fresh as possible
from seeding oranges the Tahiti orange
is probably the best. Prepare the ground
well by deep blowing or spading, then
make small drills with the point OF hoe
an inch and half deep, and as far apart
IS convenient, considering the space TO be
Occupied-from eight to twelve inches.
Drop the seed from the hand, say an inch
apart, as nearly as may be, and cover TO
the depth of about an inch and half
simply fill up the driu-press the soil
lightly upon the seed and keep moist. 1t
it is best to erect cover of lath or cheese
cloth over the plants as soon as they APP
pear, to prevent sunburp. When the
plants are well out of the ground thin
them to four inches apart. California
Eruit-GrOwer.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS,
Retiring from the farm is going into the
village 10 die.
\ nasty barnyard is not a guarantee OF
g neat farmer.
Never whip horse when he is fright
ened. Be cool yourself and he will soon
gain confidence.
Great is the need of newly-built roads,
but greater still the need of better meth
DDS of maintaining our present ones.
Richard Gird has 400 hired men at work