Los Angeles herald., 1892-09-11
NEWS NOTES FROM THE RANCHES
Typical Facts About Southern
California Farms,
A Tustin Man Has Developed a New
Variety of Orange.
1t Keeps on the Tree From March to
September-A Perfect Shipping
Lemon-A New Peach-Prof-
liable Fruit Shipments.

DIR. M. s. Jones, of Tustin, says the
Santa Ana Blade. is the owner of an
orange grove that gives to him good
yearly income, and promises greater
things for the future. His early oranges
always find ready sale, and now that
he has successfully propagated new
orange, which he has named the Calf
ornia beauty, or the Multum in Parvo,
which ripens in March and hangs on
the tree and retains it's juiciness and
luscious flavor till August and Septem-
ber. he feels sanguine that his fortune
is as good as made. Yesterday he, for
the sixth time this season, once in each
of the months of March, April. May,
June, July and August, brought good
ly number Of the fruit to the Blade Office,
picked fresh from the trees, and the evil
dence is convincing of their keeping
qualities and their richness of flavor.
For nine years he has been carrying on
the change, and now he feels that sue.
cess has crowned his efforts, and that,
as q result, oranges will become q con.
tinuous crop for the markets OF the
world, with Orange county entitled to
the credit. Next spring he will place
between 5000 and 10000 budded trees
OF his new variety on the market, which
will prove but the beginning in their
cultivation in Southern California, and
but another step in the more rapid de-
velopment and increased wealth OF this
portion of the State.
The Consumption of Olives.
The American people have not beer
taught the value of the olive as an arti
Gle Of nourishing food, and in this coun.
try, the extent to which olives and olive
oil are consumed where the olive tree ol
old is grown, is family realized, say
| the Pomona Progress. The olive is EN-
inently the poor mans tree. 1t is tht
| richest and most nutritious Of all fruits
for upon it and bread alone man car
liHee sii7os, pIscs 81 bread. % an'
q glass of wine, often make meal 70
the Italian or Spanish peasant. A fail
ure of the olive crop in Mediterranean
regions is public calamity.
! The descendants of the Latin rae
wherever dispersed about the globe re-
tain their love for the olive. This il
shown by the shipments from the olive
lands to various parts of the world
Thus Mexico with its 100000 people
imports more olive oil than the United
States with 60,000,0OO. France with
less people than our Republic imports
twenty times as much olive oil, in ad.
dition to the immense quantities made
in the southern provinces. The Argen.
tine Republic and Uruguay, with a
population of only 9.5OO,OOO, use five
times as much olive oil as our own
country. The little island of Cuba has
only 100000 residents, yet consumes
fifteen times as much olive oil as our
vast States and Territories. When peo-
pie are accustomed to- the use of olive
oil, it is no longer luxury but daily
food, as commonly consumed as butter
or lard. The wholesale grocers and
druggists in the East say that when
the American people can get olive oil
pure and fresh as the Europeans get it
free from Yankee adulterations and
American trickery Our California olive
growers can easily build up market
for tens of thousands of gallons of olive
oil at the best prices in the world.