The oasis., 1893-06-08

bore one year when the tree was thir- teen years old. 70 gallons of olives. if made into pickles and sold at D cents per gallon, hey would bring f37.50. Major L. H. Ut Of Redlands, has an orchard at Pala, Sap Diego county. of lOJ trees, that when I6 years cid aver aged SO gasions of olives per tree that year llrG 7. IlaYens of santa Ana. write that he has an orchard in Or- ange county, b miles from the coast, at an eleval ion of l50O feet. planted at rhe foot oI an adobe biil The trees have never been irrigated and have never been infested with the black scale. Tdey bore a little fruit the third yearfrom the cutting; the fourth year they bore one to four gallons per tree at the age of seven years some of them bore twenty gallous for the year. Thus it win 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 10 year for thirty years. and they will bear up to the age of l0o ycara. do not believe the figures given above 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 the enormous re- turns of the olive trees mentioned aro evenly divided by four the results will show the olive industry to be most profitable one.
 There has always been q ready mar ket for all the olives produced here in Pomona; last year there were more orders sent to this market than could be filled, and orders are coming in for the crop for the ensuing season. Olive growers in this section have generally prepared their own fruit ready far use, but there are now a number of firms in the field who propose to buy the fruit as it comes from the trees, a1d prepare it for market. The prospects, for a good market in the future are encouraging. The incTeasein the con sumption of California pickled olives in this state within a year CT two is immense. The people are beginning to find out their value, and in the near future they will come into general use. California olive oil is rapidly growing into favor as an article of feed.
 Considering the superiority of our pickled olives and their cheapness, and the superiority of our oil. it is safe to say that they will entirely displace the foreign article in the markets of this country as soon as they are pro- duced in quantity sufficient to supply tue demand. While our various fruits are seeking markets in the east. com peting with some of the fruits raised there, this state is q large importer of the products of the olive tree, our scanty production as yet hardly mak- ing an impression onour localmarkets.
 During my residence in this coun- try since 1878 watched the fruit bus mess from the standpoint of nursery man. and have seen it grow from a small beginning to it's present large proportions.
 Olive culture is in it's infancy here, and there is much to learn before it is brought to it's highest possibilities, but enough is knoEn about it to war rant one prediction. that it is destined to. become the most profitable indus try. of this commonwealth.
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