Los Angeles herald., 1892-11-27

wholesale price for California oil F.; this
would give $lOSO per acre OF 108 trees
Frank Kimball of National City, San
Diego county, states that he paid q
| neiehbor 5000 per acre for his olives
| from trees less than wears old from the
cutting; that he had taken % gal Ions
from tree less than years old these,
if made into pickles and sold for 70 cents
per gallon, would bring $1S63 per acre for
that year; that he had picked from
tree, at the old San Diego mission, l92
gallons of olives in single year; that
tree was probably 100 years old. Or.
B. B. Briggs of Crescenta, Los Angeles
county, has tree that bore one year,
when the tree was Is years old, 30 gai-
lone of olives; if made into pickles and
sold at rs cents per gallon, they would
bring $37. 80. Major J.. HI. UT OF Red
lands has an orchard at Pala, San Diego
county, of 100 trees, that when 16 years
old averaged 80 gallons of olives per tree
that year. Mr.. q. F. Havens OF santa
Ana writes that he has an orchard IN
Orange county, 15 miles from the coast,
at an elevation of 1900 feet, planted at
the foot of an adobe hill, trees have
never been irrigated and have never
been infested with black ecale; they
bore little fruit the third year from the
cutting; the fourth year they bore from
one to four gallons per tree; at the age
of seven years some of them bore Ogal-
Ions for the wear. Thus it will be seen
that the trees will show little furit the
third year from planting, and yield re-
turns the fourth year; the crop will in
crease from year to year for 30 years,
and they will bear up to the age OF 100
years. l do not believe the figures
given above as the yield of olive trees
can be safely relied upon every year.
nor that olive orchards in general of like
age will come up to those figures one
year with another any more than can
the amounts given above as the returns
of citrus and deciduous orchards be
uniformly realized every year, but If the
enormous returns of the olive trees men,
toned are even divided by four the re-
suits would show the olive industry to
be most profitable one.
There has always been ready market
for all the olives produced here in Po-
mona. Last year there were more
orders sent to this market than could
be filled. and orders for the crop of the
ensuing season are coming in. Olive
growers in this section have generally
prepared their own fruit ready for use,
but now there are number of firms in
the field who propose to buy the fruit as
it comes from the trees and prepare it
for market. The prospects for good
market in the future are encouraging.
The increase in the consumption OF Cal
ifornia picked olives in this stste with
in a year or two has been immense. The
people aresbeginnirg to find out their
value, and in the near future they will
come into general use. California olive
oil is rapidly growing into favor aa an
article of food and as medicine, and q
heavy demand for it is assured.
The foreign sardine industry is on the
wane, owing to the use OF impure olive
oil and cotton seed oil in which they are
now put up. It may be assumed that
the industry will be inaugurated in this
state as soon as a supply of olive oil can.
be had in which to pack them, as our
shores TEEN with eardines of excellent
quality.
Considering the superiority of our
picked olives and their cheapness, and
the purity of our oil, it is safe to say
that they will entirely displace the for
eign article in the markets of this coun
try as soon as they are produced in
quantity sufficient to supply the de-
mand. While our various fruits are
seeking markets in the east, competing
with some of Che fruits raised there, this
state is large importer of the products
of the olive tree, our scanty production
as yet hardly making an impression on
our local markets.
During my residence in this county,
since 1873, 1 have watched the fruit
business from the standpoint of
nurserymsp, and have seen it grow from
small beginning to its present large
proportions. l know something of the
obstacles which have been overcome,
and the necessary efforts to secure
market, and it is gratifying to know
how much better the business pays
with larger supply and wider markets.
The olive is unique in this respect; the
output as yet is insufficient to meet the
local demand, only in small degree.
Olive culture is in its infancy here,
and there is much yet to learn before it
is brought to it's highest possibilities,
but enough is known about it to warrant
the prediction that it is destined to be-
come one of the most profitable indus
tries in this commonwealth.