Los Angeles herald., 1892-01-03
THE CROPS.
Reports Of Their Condition Through
Southern California.

Reports of Their Condition Through
Southern California.
The following is the crop report fur
nished by Observer Franklin of the local
weather bureau:
Santa Barbara, Ellwood Cooper-One
and three-fourths inches of rain fell dur
ing the evening and night of Dec. 29th.
Hueneme, S. L. Mack-The weather
has been variable with west and north
winds. Rain commenced falling Tues
day evening and continued through the
night with asprecipitation of 80 inch.
Lancaster, James P. Ward-Heavy
rain fell Tuesday night and Wednesday
morning, enabling ranchers to break
new land, which they are doing in earn
est. The weather is milder.
Verdugo, j.. G. Sherer-The rainfall
of the 10Th and 30th measured 1.60
inches, wetting the ground deep enough
for plowing, thus enabling farmers to
begin their winter work.
Rodeo de Los Aguas Ranch (Cahuenga
Valley, HI. n. Denker-Rain fall of 81
inch on the 29th and Both, made for the
season 1.95 inches. Warmer and pleas
ant weather now prevails; grain and
grass are coming up nicely and every
thing looks favorable for prosperous
season. Nearly all the land in the
Cahuenga valley will be put under culti-
walton this coming year. Green peas,
string beans and tomatoes are being
picked in the Cahuenga foot hills.
Los Angeles city, U. 8. weather bu-
reau, George E. Franklin-Cool, gener-
ally fair weather prevailed during the
week. The highest temperature was GA
degrees, lowest 81 degrees. The rainfall
record ia as follows: Weather Office,
for the storm, LOS inches; for the asa-
son, 2.05 inches. The Germain Fruit
company. on Los Angeles and CONNER
cial streets, reports LOG inches for the
storm, and the Southern Pacific Rail-
road. company reports .55 inch at Los
Angeles; San Gabriel, I.2 inches
Puente, 90 inch; Pomona, l 90 iuch |;
Cotton, .48 inch Beaumont, 1.35 inches !;
Florence. l.l5 inches; San Pedro, A
inch; Santa Ana, LOO inch; Anaheim,
.92 inch; Norwalk, 81 inch; Downey,
.92 inch Whittier, LOS inches; Santa
Monica, .67 inch.
Monrovia, I. J. Barnes-The rain OF
the 10th was extremely beneficial to
fruits and growing crops, and many
plous have been started. The recent
frosts were not as disastrous as antici-
pated.
Pomona, John Wasson-On the nights
OF December oath and 25th there were
freezes that did good deal OF injury to
fruit and nursery stock; just how much
to the fruit cannot even yet be accu-
rately estimated; some orchardists re-
port no injury, some slight and some a
good deal. 1t is very certain the cold
covered the country in belts, and in q
limited area these belts are quite clearly
defined this year; whether the cold and
thermal belts are always the same is not
determined with certainty. The morL-
ing OF December 26th was the coldest,
the thermometers registering 20, % and
posure. Rain began to fall Tuesday
evening, and 46 inches fell during the
night and next day. Wednesday night
was clear, with heavy frost and some ice
in the morning. but not nearly go cold
as the 25th and Goth. No wind since
December 10th.
Chino, Edwin Rhodes The rain of
Wednesday was badly needed to start
work in the fields. The ground is now
we'll saturated; T; plowing has commenced
and the fields and hills are growing
green with grass and grain. Sugar beet
planting will commence in few days.
Nursery stock was slightly injured by
frost on December 26th. The rainfall
was IL inches.
Redlande, Scipio Craig During the
past week the thermometer has been
lower aud the weather colder for a
greater continuous period than has ever
been known in this section. Damage
to oranges by frost not greater than 5
per cent, to nursery stock more serious; |;
injury given by different nursermen at
10 to 40 per cent, while nursery stock
in some sections was not injured, in
others the figures are 80 to 75 per cent,