The oasis., 1893-08-31

water you would uecinuOus OTcudru. On dry lands the trees should be given about two pailfuls of water when plant ed, and three or four times during the first summer.
 Having spoken of the soil, planting and care of an orchard, l will take up the past and present profits in olive culture, viewed from purely mercen- ary standpoint, the olive has as much to commend it as the orange or the prune. If it can be said that the lat ter is king of the semi-tropical fruits in Southern California, then the form CT is certainly the queen: for as a source of profit the olive is creeping up on the golden spheres at a rate that will cause a neck and neck race. In the case of the olive it will not be necessary fo calculate" on the yield of an acre at certain ages: the incon- troyertible testimony of growers IS to be had at first hands. For instance. Hon. Elwood Cooper, the Nestor of ol- i've culture in Southern California, tested one of his orchards his olives are planted in separate groves or or chards over some 700 acres of hilly and mountainous land at seven years
 from the cuttings, which yielded 10 bottles of oil to the tree. The oil
 brought sI.00 per bottle by the ease. MT. Cooper plants his trees twenty feet apart giving l0S trees to the acre; at the above rate the yield in oil was l0S0 bottles or 370 gallons of oil.
 While this is a very heavy yield it is
 not unusual. B. Briggs, of La Cresen- ta, this county. reports having tree
 eleven years old that yielded fifty gal
 gons of olives last year. At the mod
 crate price of 50 cents per gallon this
 makes a handsome return. Frank. A. Kimball. of National City. reports ithat olive trees three years old will
 pay expenses; that trees four or five
 years old will pay handsome return' that he bought olives at s5 cents per
 gallon as they were gathered from trees a few months over four years
 old. some of the trees yielding thirty
 gallons of olives: that he paid one of his neighbors over S200 per acre for his olives. the trees having been plant ed three years ago last March: that he has picked eleven gallons from tree four years and six months old from q cutting: that he had taken twenty three gallons from tree less than six years old. and that he has had one hundred and ninety-tw0 gallons pick
 ed from single tree at the old Sau
 Diego mission. l can cite two in- stances which came under my per.
 sonal observation: A small orchard ol three hundred trees ten ur eleven
 years old that had been sadly neglect
 ed during the boom, but latterly takeI
 care of. yielded over 5000 gallons o olives. which were picked and brought
 from LOO to Sl. 2 per gallon. netting the owner over S3,OO0 Pretty goot for three hundred trees. MT. Olm , stead, of this place. has a four-aere ol , i've orchard here which commenced bearing last year. The fruit this yea ] was bought by local firm for twenty l five cents per pound. or about twenty two cents per gallon. The return were slO0 per acre. Had the owne . made his olives into pickles himself ! which is the custom among growers he would have got eighty cents gal ' lon for the pickles, or nearly s40o pc ] acre.
 William Loflland says that the S-a ] ere grove cf TOO bearing eleyenEeal - old tree. belQnrinr tO his sister tirs