Los Angeles herald., 1892-02-21
FIVE CENTS.

grade of fruit He said to us: s'I sup
pose l could have saved a dollar
upon these ten boxes by buying
cheaper ones, and by sighting and
rushing / could have added five boxes
more to my days work, which at 20
cents box would count another dollar.
But have added $4 to S5 to the market
value of my oranges by working upon
this plan. So you see | have really
saved $2 and perhaps So by using the
best boxes I can buy, picking, wrapping
and packing my fruit carefully and
nicely, hopping them neatly, and finally
marking them in clean, tasty manner.'s
He clinched his argument by pro-
ducing his statements of sales all
through the season. He got as high as
$3.50 net, while the lowest was only
few cents under a dollar, for russeta.
And such loss is one which is nobody's
gain. In cases of overproductioD, con-
sumers get goods cheaper; but in case
OF hurried picking and jump-on-
the-box packing, the consumer gets
cheaper fruit because it is damaged, and
many people would not use them at all.
One day this week Mr.. Jones, our freight
agent, showed us lot af boxes, in some
of which the oranges were burst open
and the juice running upon the floor and
through the other oranges. The boxes
were begrimmed, and through the
cracks one could see the wrapping prper
torn away, leaving the fruit exposed.
The freight agent was hesitating about
receiving them for shipment. Here was
clear case of contract packing, and we
wondered what the fate of this fruit
would be in the market, and what it
might have been in the hands of the
careful packer mentioned above. San
Antonio Herald.
PROFITS IN PRUNEs.
One mile east of Santa Rosa, Sonoma
county, there is an eight-acre prune
orchard owned by Mrs. A. Fox. POST
master Farmer OF Santa Rosa has charge
of the orchard, and has figured out the
cost and profit for the Republican: The
amount paid out for pruning and clear (.
ing away brush was $106,75; for spray
ing, $6l.95; for blowing and cultivat-
ing three times, $34; for cultivating
six times, $50; for hoeing around tue
trees, $19.25; fer raking around the
trees, SLIPS; totaly 1858 20; less $40.
deducted for work done on peach and
pear trees, leaving the labor of produce
ing the prunes at $253 29. 10 gather
and deliver the prunes cost $288 so,
which makes the total cost of producing
and marketing $541.70. On the eight
acres there were produced 131. 1888
pounds of prunes, which were sold at
$50 per ton, or $1979.86. The net profit
on the crop was the difference between
the cost of production and marketing
and price received. or $1448.15. Every
bit of labor was paid for and all of the
cost of raising, except the replanting of
a few trees, which were put in last year,
Is included in the statement.
KEEPING ORANGES.
Florida, says the Oakland Enquirer,
orange grower has not yet learned. In
order to keep his oranges for the late
spring or early summer trade, Florida
orchardist puts them into natural cave
on his place, where the air remaina at
an even temperature of 40 degrees, and
the fruit will keep in good condition for
a year. Now the most interest
ing part of this is the second
ary discovery that it is no new
thing, but a practice which the Sicilian
orange growers have long followed. A
United States consul writes that in the
sluCn VI 1Hc LuOuutdlus AcdI dlcIItiU dI0
many grottoeH that are cool and well
ventilated. in which oranges are kept
nicely during the summer. They are
spread two different layers deep upon
large mats placed at convenient dis
tances one above the other. Every day
or two the fruit is turned over, and all
the defective ones are removed.
BEETs FOR CATTLE FEED.
Sugar-beets are proving to be the best
feed for cattle yet raised in this section
of the country, and as such. are paying
better than any other farm product yet
grown here. The past season the factory
here was unable to use the beets from q
few fields on account of their large size
and low percentage of sugaf. This, for q
time, was thought by some to be almost
an unqualified loss. There has, since the
factory closed, been a good demand
and ready sale for all beets in the fields
for cattle feed, and they have proven to
be so valuable for that purpose that in
the future the disposition of any beets
that the factory may not be able to use
will be an easy matter, and at remuner-
ative prices. There are always soma
beets on the outside rows OF fields, etc.,
which grow very large and are not suit
able for working in the factory, but can
be utilized for forage SO that there will
be very little loss in them.
Frank Dygert has been getting 80 per
ton for beets in the field, or $3.50 to 81
per ton delivered in Pomona. He is
finding ready sale for the crop and is
making good money from it. We have
been informed that L. Bristol has
been offered So per ton for some of
his beets in the field. As some of the
crops will yield from thirty to forty
tons per acre, the profits can easily be
figured out. Samuel Hayward has
taken herd of cattle to fatten on his
beets, and says he will do very we'll.
He says $ ton of beets will be sufficient
for from forty to forty-fve head of cat
tie, and those he is feeding are doing
splendidly. Mr.. Hayward says he con-
siders beets the very best feed he can
get to fatten cattle on.-[Chino Cham
pion.
1T DOES NOT GRIPPE.