The morning call., 1892-04-03
EXPERIMENTS AT ALvARADo.

EXPERIMENTS AT ALVARADO.
:" j have experimental pretty carefully
with the olive" said Mr.. Beard to CALI.
reporter. day or so ago. son my place at
Alyarado the climate Is different from that
OF Warm Springs-it Is not so dry. On that
place found it, as | supposed, to my ad-
vantage to cut down about 200 olive trees
last year, as they had not produced any
fruit for the past five or six years, owing to
the trees having olive scale so badly. | had
sprayed the trees several times, but 1t
seemed to have no effect although using the
same wash cleared my apricot trees of the
same scale. The olive trees bred the
scale, and they spread over my apricot and
peach trees; so, as / was getting no fruit
from them, ana they were Injecting the rest
of my orchard, did away with them.
Before the scale came Oh nv olives thew
did very well, and / have about 300 more
trees on the same place that are just Coming
into bearing on which the scale has OF Vet
appeared. i have sprayed them twice this
year. and am doing my best to keep them
clear. but IL do not succeed they. Also will
have to come out L have also introduced
some ladybugs.
FAvoRTrE WITH THE SCALE.
"lf i can keep out the scale the olive il a
profitable crop, but it wont do to trlfie with
the trees and have the rest of your orchard
suffer. The olive being an evergreen tree
with dense foliage, besides being tie great
est fayorte with the scale, makes il very
hard to battle with the pest Up at Warm
Springs the scale Is not SO troublesome.
owing to the drier air and greater distance
from the sea. 1 have some trees up there
that are doing very well, and will bear con-
siderable fruit this year
AS general proposition olives are not
the thing Tor the coast counties or any seq
ton influenced by the sea breeze. They
should be grown in the interior, where tn q
air Is drler and not SO healthy for the scale
bug. l have noticed the same trouble with
the olives Of San Diego and Santa Barbara.
Ihere they have contended for years to
overcome the scale, and have used MANY
washes, but they have not succeeded, and
the most OF their orchards are very poor.
SENSITIVE TO MOISTURE.
II lost nearly a third of my olives AT
Warm Springs year bsfore last owing to the
wet season. The trees are very sensitive IN
moisture. and in that respect they are about
does not DO to try to grow olives on
ground that is not well drained, or on heavy
ground that holds the water. Ny land at
Warm Springs is we'll drained, but some Of
II Is OF heavy adobe. and that holds too
much moisture for the trees
Still farther back from the bay. Among
the foothills at Mission San Jose. are soma
olive trees that were set out 80 years ago bv
Mr.. Boards father that are bearing every
year and hourishng finely. &. c. MeIypr
has also some trees on his beautiful place.
Linda Vista, where he manufactures sII.
perfne quality Of oil, so highly esteemed bv
those who know 1t that it is seldom allowed
to reach market. Here and there about tho
coast are also other Isolated spots, where
the conditions are particularly favorable md
the trees do well, but the general experience
OF growers seems to lead them to concnr
In Mr. Boards conclusion that the olive
does better In the interior where there are
vast tracts of land admirably adapted 10
bringing this noble little fruit to high state
of perfection,