Los Angeles herald., 1892-01-03
Typical Facts About South
ern California Farms.
What a Pomona Man Says About
Curing Lemons.
Some Practical Hints About the Cul.
ture of Peanuts.
Grain Planting at Banning-Profits in
Horticulture-Rev. Loops Re-
cipe for Curing
Olives.

tween Judge F. A. Newell and Pomon.
Times reporter. 1t will be noticed tina
he refers to the Garcelon method, which
was published-wi illustrations-ir il
the Citrograph few weeks ago. as con
tanning all that is known on the subject
The judge says:
As to quality and curing 1 regarG
them worthy to compete with othel
lemons, either foreign or domestic, ir
any American market. After four years
almost constant steady experiment, at
tended often with considerable loss,
believe 1 have learned the requirements
for successful handling from the tree to
market, which plan have fully ex'
planned to divers interested friends in
the last six months, and who recognize
the plan as identical with that of q. w.
Garcelon of Riverside, as stated in his
recently published pamphlet in that
behalf. Mr.. Garcelon may De regarded
as the first discoverer, for with
his greater experience he must have
known and adopted his plan as
published, long before I, by slow de-
grees, arrived at conclusions, cumula-
tive to his. Whether more perfect
process will be developed / cannot say.
II so or not, the known process is SO
near perfect as to encourage liberal
planting of lemon orchards, whose
wholesome fruit is more extensively
known and used than any other, and
verify believe that within the next five
years the lemon will arrogate to itself
the dignity of kingship Of the citrus
family. The naughty orange, the auto
crat of the orchard, ever conscious of
its Incompatible beauty, demanding ad-
miration from those who behold, will
very soon be called to divide the honors,
at least equally with the lemon, each a
moiety, one as necessity, the other as
a luxury. Severing from tree and
curing is one part. Keeping for six to
ten months for best market is the other
part. Those who desire to know how
to do both will learn upon reading Mr..
Garcelon's pamphlet.
BANNING GRAIN.
There is no reason for any farmer to
get worried on account of the scarcity OF
rain this year, says the Banning Herald.
Our experience in California is that
most of the rain falls after the holiday g.,
anyway, and there is nothing on which
to base the suppoeition that this is GO
ing to be q dry year. In fact, everything
looks favorable for rain now, and, per-
haps, before this article appears we may
be treated to an old-fashioned downpour.
Farmers in the vicinity of Banning
have been industriously dry-plowing
for the past month or six weeks, and
the acreage will be greater than ever
before. We have heard of the following
planting so far: Mr.. w. NJ. Hathaway
has in 1000 acres of barley on the Dun
lap place; Mr.. Best has planted 1000
acres on the Scott place; Mr.. G. O..
Barker, nearly 1000 acres on the bench
and in the valley; Mr.. @ Sweeters,
about 800 acres Mr.. J. NJ. Gilman, 500
acres: Carpenter & Hamilton, 500 acres !;
Mrs. Fraser, 300 acres, and Martin &
Goodcell, nearly 200 acres. In addition
there are many smaller tracts sown. and
there is every reason to believe that the
grain crop at Banning this year will be
unprecedently large.
PEANUT CULTURE.
J. E. Cox of Bloomington, CAL, writes
to the Rural Californian as follows: I
find that the best time to plant the pea
nut in this country is from the middle
to the last of May. Prepare the ground
WE'LL have it good and mellow, then
mark out in rows four feet apart, and
unless the ground is very moist. run a
little water along the row, sufficient to
soak it up nicely. After it dries off a
little drop your nuts, one kernel in a
place, twenty-five inches apart. tried
placing one, two, three and four in a
place, but found that the one had more
and larger nuts than either of the
others. After having dropped the nuts,
cover with cultivator. Nothing more
needs to be done until they get up
nicely. About three weeks after they
come up mark on both sides with
q shallow shovel marker. one that
throws the dirt both ways.
Mark just close enough so as not
to cover up the young vines. Then irri-
gate until the ground is thoroughly
soaked. After it is dry enough, culti-
vate, throwing the dirt in close to the
vines. Continue this every three weeks
during the season; each time mark
little further from the row, and always
when cultivating roll the dirt in close to
the vines by so doing you will keep the
ground high and mellow, 30 as the vine
spreads the little tender spurs that
snOOC GOWN can peHttrato IL anu Dcdr
fruit. Do not allow the water to run
over the row as it causes the ground to
bake and the nuts to be of dark color.
1t is not the nuts that require the moist
ure but the tap root OF the vine under
meath the nuts. Do not cover the
blossom as some people advocate. The
blossom of the peanut ought not to
be covered, neither in this or any other
country. investigated the matter
thoroughly during the season just
closed. / selected six rows side by side;
each received the same amount OF water
and attention. Three of these rows
covered up the blossoms as they made
their appearance, before sunrise in the
morning, with little moist dirt. When
harvested these six rows found, to
nv satisfaction, that the three rows not
covered had q third more nuts and con-
siderably larger in size. Tie idea that
the peanut ought not to be irrigated in
this country is all bosh J.. f. @.
PROFITS IN HoRTcULrURE.
4 writer ID thS Rural Californian