The oasis., 1893-06-01

observation the different sorts may be distinguished from each other in the nursery by their appearance, which will greatly assist the nurseryman .n ,orrectiy labelling his trees.
 OUTLOOK ron THE OLIVE INDUs1EY.
 In discussing the profits of fruit raising it is customary to cite citrus orchards that have returned from $500 to more than sl,m0 per acre, and de- ciduous trees ttat have yielded elU0 10 more than s5Oo per acre ill q single year, so we may here give the record Of some olive trees:
 Ellwood Cooper of Santa Barbara. states that he tested one of his orchards seven years old from the cuStings, which yielded ten large bottles Of oil to the tree; cnedoliar per bottle is the : present wholesale market price for California oil: this would make SlOs0 ' per acre of jos trees. Frank Kimball of National City. San Diego county. states thathe paid his aeighbor S200 an acre for his olive trees less than four years old from the cuttings: that he had taken twenty-three gallons of fruit from 9 tree less than six years old: these if made into pickles and sold at 75 cents per gallon, would bring sisGS per acre for that year; that he had picked from q tree at the old San Diego mission, l92 allOns of olives in single year. That tree was probably 100 years old. Doctor |. E. Briggs Of Crescvils, Los Angeles county, has tree that bore one year when he tree was thir- teen years old, 50 gallons of olives. if made into pickles and sold at .5 cents per gallon, they would bring s37.5c. Major L. II. Ut of Redlands, has ali orchard at Pala, San Diego county, of loo trees, that when Is years old aver aged 80 gallons of olives per tree that year. Mir. G. E. Ravens of Santa Ana. writes that he has an orchard in Or ange county b miles from the coast, at an elevation of l500 feet, planted at the foot of an adobe hill. The trees have never been irrigated and have never been infested with the black scale. They bore little fruit the third year from the cutting; the fourth year they bore one tO four gallons per  tree; at the age of seven years some of them bore twenty gallons for the year. Thus it will be seen that the trees will show little fruit the third year from planting. and yield returns the fourth year: the crop will increase from year to year for thirty years, aud they will hear up to the age of 100 years. | do not believe the iigurea given abosc can be safely relied upon every year. nor that olive orchards in general of like age will come up to those figures one year with another any more than can the amounts given above as the returns of citrus and de- ciduous orchards be uniformly realized every year; but if tho enormous re- turns of the olive trees mentioned are evenly divided by four the results will show the olive industry to he nest profitable one.
 There has always been ready mar ket for all the olives produced here in Pomona; last year there were more orders sent to this market than could be flied, and orders are coming in for the crop for the ensuing season. Olive growers in this section have generally prepared their ownf fruit ready for use. but there are now a number of firms in the field who propose to buy the fruit as t cones iron ths trees, ecd yyos ssfo t for psa,&ot. Tho p-0Jpe.ss
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