The record-union., 1892-01-20
FUTURE CITRUS FAIRS.
Would it Not be Better to Hold Them
in the East2
Director Hancock of the State Board
of Agriculture Gives some
Good Advice.

Where should the next citrus fair be
held?
This question is being asked every day
by citizens who are DESTROYS of seeing
cur citrus products exhibited, and the
capabilities of our soil known, where the
most good viii result. The communica-
ton in yesterdays REcoRD-UNIoN by
Edwin K. Alsip on this subject was read
with interest throughout the city, and
many concurring views were expressed,
ss well as many differing ones.
One of the best posted men in the State
On this su bject is G. w. Hancock Of this
city, one of the Directors of the State
Agricultural Society. Mr.. Hancock is
very pronounced in his ideas regarding
the site of the next fair.
PREFERS CHICAGO.
"By all means it should be held at
Chicago-not at New York or any other
Eastern city. An appropriation of $780,
COO surely ought to be warrant sufficient
that the State will make a creditable eX-
hibit of citrus fruits from every section
Of the State. Then let visitors Judge for
themselves which section they will select
for their abiding place. But let no en-
thuSiastic lover of our mild climate think
that our people are all educated up TO the
fact that we have a semi-tropical climate
Ia Northern and Central California.
81 have Just spent a week with the
Citrus Fair at Auburn, and many people
are doubling Thomases.' There is an
Ermy of mossbacks ever ready to shake
their heads in wise distrust of orange
culture as a business for profit. And it
Is vet impossible to find a capitalist or an
institution ofcapital in Northern Califor-
hot will oh NIL a
sition for citrus or semi-tropical culture
IS freely as they will one based upon
wheat or deciduous fruits.
PROFITABLE WORK.
Even the bright, enterprising men
who started citrus colony in Sacramento
County showed their faith in their work
by planting twenty-five or forty
citrus trees around the dooryard plats,
and planted the rest of the ten acres in
peaches, pears and apricots, thereby Civ
ing truth to the saying that Northern
and Central California did not pretend to
make the cultivation of oranges basis
Of business. Albeit, the few oranges that
were planted in five years from date Will
return double the net profit for the
ground occupied to that planted in dec;d
Ious fruit There are here and there
lew orange trees standing about the farm
houses in this county, never having had
the least protection from frost, having
lldtt lOG the ldSJ ndtl years DufU6HS
Of fruit that, if counted in acres, would
Eurpass the product of the yield Of any
other fruit planted and yet the people do
not add to their planting of oranges to the
extent of one-acre plats.
let me suggest the most potent argu-
Inent for Eastern people. Let some one
who can stand the financial strain plant
twenty acres Of oranges, take the best
IF care with irrigation, cultivation and
fertilization, and in five years they will
Lave return of from $500 to $500 per
scre. The moment Tom, Dick and Harry,
who have money, see that it is good
Iloney-maklng proposition they will go
into it, 1t is now five years since the
first citrus fair was held in Sacramento
City, and the
EVIDENCE Is NO STRONGER
To-day than then that we have climate
for the profitable growing Of citrus fruits.
Placer County has increased her acreage
IN citrus fruits into the hundreds, and
one grower has trees five wears old this
winter that have 500 oranges on them.
That means $500 per acre. Butte County
las increased her acreage to thousands,
snd Yuba to hundreds, and in a few
Years the Fastener will look upon the
golden fruit hanging upon the trees sold
from $500 To $500 per acre. At Auburn /
met one old gentleman-God bless him
lie is 70 years old and so crippled with
rheumatism that he cannot work, but he
is going to plant in Placer County twenty
ceres in oranges this year. He said he
cid not expect to live to reap the Benefit;
hut barring accidents he will. The profits
Of twenty acres of budded oranges is
wealth at ten years. growth.
lone word for olives. The picked
ripe olives exhibited by Mrs. Emily Rob-
orson at the Auburn Fair are the most
delicate table relish ever seen in this
State A prominent hotel keeper of the
bay district said they were too NICE they
would be eaten altogether too greedily
for wholesome profit to his business.
Certainly they VIII supersede the ordi-
nary imported article OF picked olives.
SAMPLES OF OIL.
''And the samples of oil exhibited by
the same lady, when put in comparison
with bottle that was at the Paris Expo
sition, and there received the highest
award, was found so identical with it
that in test made without knowledge of
either the difference could not be de-
tected. There was an exhibit from the
EVolfskill farm, at Winters, that was also
Identical with the aforementioned,
showing that the best is not confined to
enc locality. One of our sterling citizens.
8 physician, remarked that the physicians
Of the State ought to combine and COM
pei druggists to keep these excellent pure
oils.
But let us have our next citrus fair at
Chicago, the railway center of the world,
snd the place where the largest number
.Hyiil see il.