The oasis., 1893-06-08

From the consular reports we learn that it is acommon practice abroad to mix cotton seed oil with the olives while being ground for oil: vast Quan- titles of this oil go to Europe from uhis country for the purpose. of adui- terating olive oils. The process Of re- linlng cotton seed oil is said to hesuch as to render it's use as food deleterious to health and even dangerous to life. The department of agriculture at Washington caused tests to be made of some sixty-six different brands of imported oil labeled pure olive oil. not one brand was found to be pure, and several did not contain any olive oil. But California producers are de- tcFmlned that the home oil shall be pat upon the market pure and un- adulterated To ihis end they have secured the pas-gga Of aR act to pre- vent the manufacture and sale in the state of impure oil and have organ ized to aid in it's enforcement, and have lately taken measures to have it so amended as to render it more enici- ent in its operation.
 Large quantities of foreign picklcd olives come to the United States and to this state: they are sold here in small bottles at the rate Of about s4 per gallon. They are put up while the olive is green and are unfit for food while the home olives are put up ripe or nearly so, and are a whole some and nutritious food vastly supe- rior to tlse foreign article. The last crop sold ia the stores at sl.20 per gal lon; dealers paid the growers from 65 cents to 5l per gallon. They are put up in Pomona by the iollowing method For six gallons of olives dissolve one pound of Lewis concentrated I've in six gallons Of water, add four pounds of salt; soak the berries in this mix ture two days. then draw off and replace it with same kind for two days longer drawing the mixture off several times daily, and pouring it over the olives. Now draw ofl the mixture again and immerse the olives in water from five to eight days, then draw of the water and put on brine of thre poHnds of salt to six gallons of water for TWO days or until the last trace O. lye is removed; finally cover them with new brine of three pounds of salt to four and a-half gallons of water.
 VARIETIES.
 According to an Italian authority there are 3O0 varieties of olives. have upwards of 70 new varieties in course of propagation in my nurseries Many of these are bearing in different parts of this state and have proved valuable acquisitions. By careful observation the different sorts may be distinguished from each ether in the nursery by their appearance, which will greatly assist the nurseryman in correctly labelling his trees.
 OUTLOOK FOR THE OLIVE INDUSTRY.
 In discussing tbe profits of fruit raising it is customary to cite citrus orchards that have returned from s50e to more than al.000 per acre, and de- eiduous trees that have yielded 9l00 to more than $500 per acre in a single year. 50 wemay here give the record of some olive trees:
 Eilwood Cooper of santa Barbara, staJes that he tested one of his orchards seven years old from the cuttings, which yielded ten large. bottles of oil to the tree; one dollar per bottle is the pressnt wholesale market. price for California oil; this would. make sl0S0 per. acre of los trees. Frank Kimball Ylf National City, S2p DierO CcFnty,