The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-01-22
SOMETHING ABOUT OLIVES.
viii They Some Day Make California
World-Famous2
The Possibilities Dilated Upon by One
Well Up on the SubJect-A
Citrus Fair Echo.

During the recent citrus fair at Auburn
several of the exhibitors took occasion to
show the visitors what can be done in
the way of olive culture in Northern Cal
ifornia.
Taken altogether these displays were
about the most complete of the kind ever
shown in California. Mrs. Emily Rob
erson, who owns a fine orchard about
two miles from Auburn, had an exclu-
sive display of olives and olive oil pro-
duced upon her place. She had on exhi-
bition twelve varieties of growing olives,
five varieties Of oil and two varieties of
picked olives. Mrs. Robertson informed
a RECoRD-UNIoN reporter at the time
that the berries from which was ex-
tracted the oil she exhibited were all
picked since Christmas.
WELL UP ON OLIVES.
F. Kloss is another prominent olive
culturist whose exhibit at the fair at
| tracted a great deal Of attention. Mr.
kloss' ranch is in Placer County, too,
| and he has great faith in the foothill
country as destined to become world
famous some day for the quantity and
quality of its olive production
Mr.. Kloss has made a study of
olives. and IS probably one of the best
posted men in The State on the subject.
Among all the fruits which fair Caliior-
ma pours out OF her horn of plenty
fruits larger III number and also in size
than any other country can present with
their lnhabltants--there is none more in
terestlng ana more promising than the
ollVe," he said, speaking on his iavorite
subject to the EMCOEH-j UNION repre-
| sentative who attended the fair. ''It NAV
sound odd TO say it, he continue |, "but
the olive Is at the same time the Oldest
and newest iruit-if you will permit me
TO call it q fruit. 70 California it is the
Oldest fruit, because it was brought here
by the first white men who visited and
settled on the Pacific Coast. At the old
missions the olive was cultivated and it's
remnants are to be seen there yet But
with the decline of her foster-motLer our
oily trult also decayed and almost fell into
oblivion, and it was only after ali the
other truits had found d home in the
GCIden state that, some fifteen years a 20,
ElWood Cooper, in Santa Barbara now
President OF the Board OF Horticulture
Of California, planted ont an olive orch
ard, by which he game himself a name
and fortune. From there The olive
COMMENCED TO sPEAD,
First along the cOast-because it was gen
orally believed that near the seashore
only would it thrive, and, in fact, IN the
OLD world, around the Mediterranean Sea
an olive orchard cannot be found farther
away from the shore than about eight
miles. Nevertheless, it is not dependent
at all on the sea or sea air, but entirely on
a moderate climate, and wherever this
can be found there the olive Will make its
| home. And where can we find nilder
! climate than in the foothills of California?
| Now is the coolest time of the whole
| year, yet roses and violetS are blooming
out Of doors, and IN our gardens all kinds
| of vegetables are growing.
And because we have this moderate
! climate up here the olive thrives. 1t
! thrives better than in Europe, better
! than near the coast Of the Pacific There
| are at San Jose. Santa Barbara and Los
! Angeles oranges and olives covered with
the black scale, which in the pure dry,
| fOgleSS air of the foothills cannot live,
| The fact that the olive does better ND
! here than elsewhere in the State does not
mean much at the present moment, as
the industry is only in its infancy, and
hardly one among a thousand uses and
knows how to appreciate the olive and
its oil. But the more the olive is Guilt
waited the better its usefulness will be
known.
MAY SUPPLY THE WORLD.
SIT is true,'' said Mr. kloss in conclu-
sion, that during a few of the winter
| days up in the foothills the temperature
in the morning goes down to the freezing
! point, and most every winter we have q
| little snow. For the latter, | for one am
quite thankful, because by this nature
supplies u.s. in mild form, the change of
| seasons so necessary to a healthy progress,
and excludes the Incidence and enerva-
] ion ~ fl,at Il,