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Los Angeles herald., 1892-06-05
AMONG THE RANCHES,
Typical Facts About Southern
California Farms.
Some Points as to the Way to Thin
Fruit.
How It II Done in Northern Fruit Or
chards-Spray for Pears and Ap-
ples-Peach Tree Pruning.
Canker Worm.

want to tell your readers something
about the way the best and most sue
cessful peach and apricot growers in
California thin their fruit. In St.
Helena, San Jose and vacaville, during
the past ten days. have seen hundreds
Of white men and Cinnamon busy thin
ming the fruit crops, although the yield
there will be short. In the great Spen-
Ger orchard of 1876 acres at st. Helena I
saw seventy men at work thinning the
apricots. saw fully twenty tons of
young green apricots that had been
pulled from the trees, and was told that
as much more of the green fruit would
be taken from the branches. I saw .
small army of men and boys in the
hundreds Of orchards about vacaville,
all pulling green apricots and peaches
from the trees, and there were big piles
of the young fruit in every orchard. The
rule in Vacaville and that region is to
leave enough fruit on the 1O-yeai -old
trees to make 200 pounds OF fruit when
it 10 ripe in July or August. In this
way the trees are never allowed to over
bear, and the grower gets steady returns
from his property year after year. The
woYkmen leave space of two TO three
inches between each growing peach or
apricot; or, in other words, they tleave
the distance covered by q mans four
fingers between the growing fruit. In
San Jose saw literally hundreds and
hundreds of green apricots and peaches
lying under the trees, where they had
been thrown by the men who were eu-
ployed to thin the crops.
1--WE people here have raised decidu-
ous fruits for over thirty years." said q
rich orchardist to us ct Vacavil!e, land
our long experience tells US that it is
just as necessary to thin our fruit each
year as it is to pick It when it is ripe.
We look upon the man who allows his
trees to overbear as fool and disgrace
to horticulture. The trouble with
Southern California deciduous fruit
growers is that they are too new and
young in the business. We make sci
ence of fruit growing, while Southern
Californians are experimenting and hate
to pull off green fruit from their trees.
Your orchardists will, however, SOON
come to the conclusion that q systematic
thinning of some fruits is the best. A
ton OF big, plump fruit is better for the
grower than ton and q half of poor,
small and measly fruit. ."-f Pomona Pro-
Gree9.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-06-05
Spray for Pears and Apples,

The following mixture is recon-
mended by the department Of agricul-
ture for summer use in pear and apple
orchards: Caustic soda, (98 per cent?
10 pounds; potash, 10 pounds; tallow,
40 pounds; rosin, 40 pounds.
Directions: First dissolve the potash
and soda in ten gallons Of water; when
dissolved place the whole amount in Q
fifty-gallon barrel.
: Second Dissolve tallow and rosin
together; when dissolved add the same
to the potash and soda in the barrel,
and stir we'll for five minutes or more.
Leave standing about two hours; then
fill the barrel with water, stirring we'll
as every bucket Of water goes in. Use
the next day, one pound to the gallon
of water; apply warm.-[California
Fruit Grower.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-06-05
Peaoh Tree Pruning.


Prof. Thomas Meehan, editor of the
Gardner's Monthly, and one of our very
best orchard and nursery authorities,
says there ia no need of pruning orchard
trees 60 hard az is often done. A little
to give good outline to the branches is
about all that is required if there are
plenty OF roots. But if roots are lost to
some extent, as nearly always happens
in digging trees. good pruning helps
them.
No general rule can be given, for while
some trees should be pruned. others do
not need 1t. But In the case Of peach trees
there is great gain in judicious pruning
yot particularly at 6rst, but every year
as the tree grows. Left to itself q peach
tree will bear no ends Of limbs only.
Evero year the fruit is farther and far
ther away from reach. Now q pruned
tree will have young bearing wood on
all parts of it, because of having young
wood where pruning has been per
formed.
Tho peach should be pruned annual
ly, and summer is as good time in
which to do the work as any; indeed, il
may be considered the best time, for
with the leaves on one can more readily
see what the tree needs. All that is re-
quired is to take out the point of the
leading shoots to promote lateral growth.
This will give tree with bearing wood
on all parts OF it.-lSanta Ana Blade.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-06-05
And Yet He Gave Him Six months.

A fine, stalwart man, with q frank,
open expression. was arraigned for steal
ing pair of shoes from dealer. "Did
you steal the shoes?" asked the judge.
He caught me, judge, with the shoes
and the box in my hand I'll tell you
how it was," began the complainant,
but he was cut short and reminded that
the prisoner had pleaded guilty. SLOW
did you come to steal the shoes? You
look like a hard working man" re-
marked the court. "Well, stole them,
judge, and he caught me-" was the re-
ply. He was committed for six months.
The judge remarked later: 81 was rather
taken with that man. He came up to
the bar like Marc Antony, not with
the sleek expression, Your honor, or q
whine Of any kind. Had he given me
any good excuse would have been very
lenient with him. for if i am not very
much mistaken in my Judgment he is nc
thief, but an unfortunate fellow who
was pinched by poverty. n Brooklyn
Eagle.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-06-05
A stage Held Up i'm montana.

BILLINGS, Mont, June 3.-The- Bill
lings and Great Falls stage was held up
by masked men yesterday and the
treasure box and mail taken. The pas
sengers were unmolested. The robbery
occurred on Painted Rope hill, near the
Musselshell river.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-06-05
Canker worm in California.


Prof. d. W. Coquillett has been in the
northern portion of the state investigat-
ing injurious insects in the Santa Clara
valley. He reports the canker worm
quite bad in several localities, it having
completely defoliated elm, walnut, ap-
pie, peach, plum and prune trees. That
it ID Identical with the eastern pest of
the same name there is little doubt.
The best way to destroy the pest is to
prevent the females (Which in the beetle
state are wingless) from ascending
the trees. To accomplish this vari-
ous devices are resorted to, the most
common being to put collar Of paper,
tin or wood about the trunk OF the
tree covered with some viscid substance
such as printers ink or tar. Many
growers in the Santa Clara valley have
banded their trees with strip OF paraf-
fine paper about five inches wide, and
placed where the tree commences to
branch, coated on the under side with
printers ink. If this remedy is applied
in the fall, and the viscid substance
freshly supplied at regular intervals, it
will catch all the females ascending the
trees, and thus bring about their exter-
mination, or at least greatly lessen their
numbers. 1t 10 supposed that this pest,
like all Of its predecessors, found its way
to this state on imported eastern nur-
eery stock. Rural Californian.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-06-05

Denmark's New Foreign Minister.
COPENHAGEN, June 3.-Barton Redtz-
thott has been appointed minister OF
foreign affairs, to fill the vacancy caused
BY the death Of Baron Rosenoernlehn.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-06-05
Anarchist secrets Divulged.

PARIS, June San Anarchist named
Drouet, arrested for connection with q
dynamite conspiracy, today divulged the
hiding place of 141 dynamite cartridges
and other paraphernalia which were
stolen from the government arsenal.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-06-05
An opinion Of Our Almonds.

California orchard productions are
constantly forging ahead and beating
the imported article in the leading
markets Of the world. First the Cali
fornia raisin, then the prune, peach and
walnut. Now the almond is crowdine
the foreign article for supremacy, as ie
Witnessed by the following correspond
ence addressed to Mr.. E. E. Pier
son Of Banning: sDear Eir-Our expe.
rience with California almonds is very
aatisfactory; in comparison with the
Spanish or Tarragona almonds we deem
them better meats. smoother skin and
often brighter shells. They are growing
Los Angeles herald., 1892-06-05
Dunkard Annual Meetine,

CEDAR RAPIDs, Ia.. June 3.-The an
nual convention OF the German Baptists,
better known as the Dunkards, OF the
United States, opened here this after
noon.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-06-05
Dandr,um.

This annoying scalp trouble. which
gives the hair an untidy appearance, -
cured BY skookum root hair grower
All druggists.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-06-05

''The creation of new character in
the world OF fiction is as important in
many ways as the coming into real life
OF a person of consequence" remarks
Charles Dudley Warner, in his depart
ment OF Harper's, anent Zagloba in Fire
and Sword, an historical novel of Poland
and Russia in the middle of the seven
teenth century, by Henryk Sisnkie-
wicz.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-06-05
m,le.,. Nerve ana Liver R1lls.

5 Act on 4 new principle exegulatingsthe liver.
utoms0h and bowels through the nerves. A
new discovery. Dr. Miles's Pills speedily cure
biliousneas, bad taste torpid liver. piles, Con-
6rsn emallest, mfldeBt, euresti SO dosoa, 25
oent1. Samples Tree. ar 9. H. Hence.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-06-05
.aa,.,ttst, the racts.

opening their columns for statemen ents. But
aware that the DR. Miles Medical 90. are re-
sponaible, We make room for the following tes-
timonial from B. McDougsll Auburn, Ind,
who for two years noticed stoppage or skip
ping Of the pulse, his left side got 90 tender he
could mt lie On it his heart auttereds he was
alarmed, went TO different doctors, found no
relief. But one bottle 81 Dr. Miles New Heart
Cure cured him. The elegant book. New and
Startling EActy, free ct O. h: Hance's 4 tells
sll aso1t HesEf and Nsrvous Diseases ana many
Los Angeles herald., 1892-06-05

Jason Edwards an Average Man, by
Hamlin Garland, is novelization Of a
little drama, Under the Wheel, which
that gifted author contributed to The
Arena year or 80 ago. We don't re-
member to have seen this fact noted in
any of the numerous reviews of this
book.
The Century had the good fortune to
fall heir to the all too scanty literary re-
mains of Wolcott Ballistier. His Cap
tain, My Captain, a very clever story Of
western life, appeared in the May
number.
~
The Little Minister, by j. M. Barrie,
is successful attempt to lift British
fiction out Of the level of convention
ality.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-06-05

Drink John Wieland's Beer.
Unsprpased for quality and taste.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-06-05

qualities, either good or bad, as yet. So
far, it is not many degrees removed from
mediocrity.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-06-05

uAs ass..sa 1Anlly sssps|
The morning call., 1892-05-25
DIFFICULTIES IN TIE WAY.

The London Imperial Federation League
seems to have derived much encouragement
from the recent declaration of Lord Sails
bury that free trade had gone too far.
Precisely how free trade could 20 farther
than free trade was intended to 90 was not
explained by the English Premier. His
idea probably was that free trade would not
work. England has never had free trade, but
the approach to it she has had is now pro-
nounced too close. The devotion OF English
statesmen to the free-trade idea has been
regarded as the principal obstacle in the
way Of imperial federation. There could
Of course, be DO trade arrangement with a
country that admitted the products Of all
countries free. But if England would i'm
pose duties on American grain and cotton
and admit like products from her colonies
free there would be ground laid for a
trade arrangement between Great Britain
and her colonies.
But Sir Charles Upper has already taken
a step in advance Of Lord Salisbury. He
says that Canada eau produce all the food
that the United States now exports to Eng
land. Lord Salisbury did not seem certain
Of the ability of Canada to make up the
American supply. That was oneOf the points
Of vantage the United States possessed
which Lord Salisbury did not see an easy
way around. Without doubt both Canada
and England can increase their grain product
materially. But the English increase would
depend upon r material rise in prices as a
consequences Of excluding American wheat.
This rise in price either of grain or cotton is
precisely what the English Minister desires
to avoid. England is losing the markets Of
the world anyway, and any material rise in
the price OF grain or cotton would materially
increase the percentage Of loss.
The morning call., 1892-05-25
THE DEFICIT.

The Finance Committee Of the Board OF
Supervisors figure out deficit Of about
$4,000 for the fiscal year about to close.
The c0mmi ttee inherited a deficit and it
transmits one to its official poslerity. There
Is no other excuse for the deficiency than
that several Of the heads Of departments
disrcgarded their pledges. County Clerk
BlattneT added $500 a month to the amount
be considered sufficient before election. The
Registrars Office has oyerdrawn $1,000 and
the Recorders S10,5 800. The Registrars
Office may have been subjected to extra ex-
pense on account Of change in election
laws, but there seems no good reason why
the County Clerk and County Recorder
should not have kept expenses down 10
their limit When the Republicans 90 be-
fore the people this fall they will have TO
account not only for the deficit but for the
extra money which has gone into the treas
uTy on account Of increase in the assessa bic
property Of the city. Not Only was the
basis Of taxation increased by $40. 0GO 600,
but the arbitrary action of the Board of
Equalization added to the estimated in
crease. The tax-eaters have got away with
Il all " e are pleased to note that cur Dem
ocratic contemporary, which In the Buckley
days used to think the revenues of the city
were inadequate to meet expenses. is now
convinced of IFS error. 1t says that San
Francisco is one Of the most extensively
governed cities IN the world. and gets less
for her money than any other that can be
named. All of this is true, but not much
truer than when that journal was adyo-
eating every expedient to add to the amount
the Buckley crowd had to spend.
The morning call., 1892-05-25
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

Senator Hoar's eyesIght continues to give
him much trouble.
Henry NJ Stanley is to stay with the King
OF the Belgians at Ostend. until the end Of
June.
Archbishop Vaughan Of Westminster is
in favor Of allowing beer TO the working
people.
Jay Gould carries for pocketpiece a 10
cent piece which lie said stood between him.
self and hunger.
Comptroller of the Currency Lacey will
soon become president OF the Bankers Ma
tional Bank OF Chicago.
Senator Hansborough has a weakness for
light opera. he prefers the "MikadO" to
anything Patti sings in.
General James LOngStreet has promised 10
join the G. A. r. veterans at their reunion
in Weir, y. H., next summer.
Congressman Curtis. the oue-eyed Repre-
sentative from New York, is known alb, ut
Washington as the Cyclops Of the House.
Mrs. Hannah 5. Shute Of Horse Heads,
y. \, in spite of her 80 years of age, was
one Of the most earnest delegates to the re-
cent Nomen's Rights convention at Seneca
Falls
The morning call., 1892-05-25
MINISTER'S MEETINGS.
Subjects Discussed Monday at the CIeI
ical CInha.

Subjects Discussed Monday at the CleT-
zeal Clubs.
At the Presbyterian Ministerial Union
Monday Rev. Franklin RhOda read q
paper on the recent State convention Of
Christian EHdeavor societies at Santa Rosa.
In it he gave personal testimony of the high
spiritual tone which prevailed, the full at
tendance at all the meetings and the re-
ligi0us Importance of the questions dis
eussed. He concluded lengthy and very
interesting paper by the remark that he
had never before attended a representative
gathering Of the church on this coast so en-
iirely satisfactory as that in its spirit and
detail.
As next Monday VIII be Decoration day
i was agreed TO hold no meeting until the
Monday following. Meanwhile Rev. w. +.
Smith and Rev Dr. Marthena will endeaVOr
TO find a more suitable place Of meeting
than the present is in the Howard Church.
AT the meeting OF the Baptist ministers
Monday Rev. w. I. Jordan Of Dixon read
a paper condemning the stage and every
thing and everybody connected with 1t. He
made pointed references to Mrs. Langtry.
Sarah Bernhard and others and quoted
statements from third parties to sustain his
claim that the history OF the drama is one
of decay, indecency and decline. In the
discussion which followed the prevailing
sentiment was one Of Endorsement.
Tie Methodist clergy at their regular
weekly meeting M0kday listened to a pa
per written by the late Rev. j. j. Cleveland
and read by Rev. II. J.. Gregory at the spe-
cial request Of the deceased upon his death
bed, II treated on tie necessity for more
theological seminaries, and showed that for
the lack OF them MethodiSm was not keep
ing pace with the growth of population.
The morning call., 1892-05-25

fashion OF the Calling gun throwing out
bullets by the bashel. LII was the failure OF
The compound machine gun which enabled
the warriors Of the Soudan TO break into the
marching squares Of the British. Had
Maxim's gun been employed 10000 bullets
discharged automatically would not have
disabled the gun. Stanley took out one OF
these guns, specially manufactured, on his
last expedition. Maxim, who hats from
Maine, and spends most oil his time at his
place near Denmark Hill, London,
has within the last few years en-
deaVored to adapt his principle OF
automatic feed to heavy ordnance He has
succeeded with ordnance running up to shot
OF 100 pounds, butt he has even speculations Of
success far beyond that. The quicker the
fire, however, the less is the need for very
heavy projectileS A rain OF small shot at
high velocity is more effective then ponder
BUSINESS al long intervals. Maxim has also
given his attention to guns capable Of dis
charging dynamite, or the still more power
full nitrO-gelatiUe. The underlying idea in
the use of these high explosives is the
development of the maximum force at the
point where il viii be mrst destructive.
instead OF exertiDg the maximum force at
the commencement of the pTOjectile's jour
ney a dynamite shell is very powerful
locomotive mine.
Maxim has been laboring for years at the
solution Of the problem of aerial nayiga-
loon as being impracticabie for progression
against the wind. and only susceptible OF
slight deviations lateraliy from tie direct
course OF the wind. He is endeavoTing to
perfect a machine which will be capable of
propulsion against The wind, as a steamer
is against both wind and tide. Birds are a
biological machine. capable OF doing this IN
direct opposition t. all but the strongest
winds, and still more capable of using the
wind at an angle 10 assist them ia rapid
flight or in easy aerial sailing. Perhaps
electricity may come TO MaXlm's assist
ance. 1t is matter of propulsiye power.
Some of the highest tiierS among
birds are the heaviest, and among
the fossils Of flight the pterodactyl
was a substantial compound Of rep
tile and bird Electric railways show
that power can be transmitted along a single
wire sufficient for the movement Of heavy
load at considerable speed. The load might
be in the air, could il be suspended ia buoy
ancy, and the power could come from the
grouud-attaChed wire. But as there are no
rails in The air 10 give anchorage and grip,
and as the wind is not accommodating IN
navigation without steerage way, Maxim's
aim is probably in the direction of propul-
sion and navigation within the aerial
machine itself, and to solve that problem
he has enough of task fer the whole Of his
genius 1t would be presumptuOus TO say
lie will not succeed. When be does enable
a passenger to sail through the air on bee
line at 90 miles an hour the world may very
likely say that the achievement was easy.
But not Mr.. Maxim.
The morning call., 1892-05-25

The Eastern editors who are Studying the
ms and outs Of life on the Pacific Coast
must have been reminded that all is not
gold that glitters by reading the various ac-
counts Of what is termed the war in Oak
land" It is not war just yet, but it is
something more than armed neutrality.
The devices Of law will not be left untried
TO settle the controversy, yet, according to
Attorney Ben Morgan. the railway company
are not predspOsed to hurry an appeal to
the courts. What can the Eastern editors
have thought Of California, as dominated
by the Southern Pacific, upon reading the
following passage OF philippe OratOTy by
Mr.. Morgan: For years aud years you
people Of Oakland nave been oppressed
by this INSCRIPTIONS corporation and
your city government has eTouched down
before 1t. Here you have a menace
70 your manhood, and If you wish
1t l will lead to blow that seOw,
which these people have placed upon the
private property Of one Of your citizens, 10
atoms. What spectaclel Here this Ken
lucky corporation, which does not even pay
its taxes, comes here and attempts 10 steal
your property in this open, shameless way
and the police power of Oakland is brought
down here in its strength to protect them"
Here the sc0w IS made 10 play the part of
the tea which was thrown into Boston har-
bDls duu tut htlbuEkl CuIpBIdll0n Is the
counterpart Of odious Great Britain oppress-
ing the cOlonists. 10 the impartial OBJ
server our civilization appears little wild.
And yet who is to blame for it? The Ken
lucky cor poTatioG has, under various aliases,
controlled everything ia California since
the transcOntinental railroad was built 1t
has even come 10 regard the population as
asleep and Itself as the good shepherd. The
Eastern editors have a tine text for COM
Aent, but con siderable number of editors
10 California could improve the occasion
more adVantageously to the common veal
Ihey also are asleep under the good shep-
herd.
Hiram Maxim, the inventor, takes Just
little credit for his machine gun by the order
which he has received from the German
Government. Germany has simply been
very slow in making up its mind on the
merits OF this gun, which. by its own recoil.
keeps up settled hail of bullets with ex-
traordinary rapidity and accuracy of fire
A Maxim gun handled by one man can eut
out the letters of the alphabet UP and down
q fence at distance OF hundreds of yards.
Ii Is not a gun liable to 90 wrong In the
The morning call., 1892-05-25
SENATOR BILL.

A New York dispatch says that nearly
one hundred conventions are to be held in
interior counties this week. at which dele
gates will be chosen to the Syracuse anti
Hill convention. When we remember that
these conventions are at best protest. the
vitality Of the movement becomes the more
extraordinary. No one supposes Tor mo-
ment that a delegate from the Syracuse con-
vention will be admitted to the national
convention. There is no precedent for such
an act. The February State convention
was regular. the only objection to it being
that calling the convention so early the
friends of Mr. Cleveland had not sufficient
time to els%s an organization. Governor
The morning call., 1892-05-25

Hill controlled the State committee. and il
took all the steps according to party usage.
But the fact that the State convention was
kind of snap judgment, the purpose Of
which was to belittle the Cleveland strength
in the State, has created a lively public
sentiment against it.
The morning call., 1892-05-25
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