The record-union., 1894-04-05
We ship citrus fruits every month in

We ship citrus fruits every month in
the year.
We ship fresh vegetables and potatoes
every month in the year No higher at
testation of the possibilities OF climate
could be given than these tables show
We ship dried fruit, raisins, honey,
canned fruit and beans every month in
the year, and nuts nearly every month
Shipments OF green deciduous fruits
! begin i'll May from Sacramento and
! Marysville and in June from Los An
! geles, as shown by the monthly ship
! nents. The bulk of this fruit is sold III
/ July, August, Septem Der and October,
! the greatest monthly shipment being in
August. over 1000 carloads were shipped
/ from the northern part of the State ia
| that month in 1898.
These tables demonstrate the truth of
our claim, that the orchard and the gar
den may be made the source OF an un-
! interrupted flow Of money to the pro-
ducer throughout the entire year. This
is factor i'll farm life OF great economic
| value.
The tables show that the bulk Of our
dried fruit follows on the heels Of the
| bulk of green fruit, and is sent out in Seps
| tember, October and November.
The canned goods move with the dried
fruit.
The table of monthly shipments of fresh
| vegetables from the north will be a reve-
| lation TO many. There were 2,090 car
| loads shipped IN the months of Novem-
| Der, December, January, February and
March. y large quantity went from
Southern California, which cannot be
shown by months. And yet gardening
in California for the Eastern markets is
confined TO comparatively narrow limits,
because the agriculturist is slow TO seize
the advantages offered.
Doubtless the risks are greater than in
fruit-growing, and greater care will be
| required IN avoiding too rapid develop
| ment OF the industry; but, intelligently
managed, gardening in California offers q
very promising field.
PROPHECY.
1t may lend some interest to this re-
port 10 recall the prophecy of Horace
Greeley. l quote from his book pub
Ished in 1888, entitled Overland jour
| ney From New York to San Francisco"
August u, 1859, he wrote from San Jose
as follows:
Fruit, however, is destined to be the
ultimate glory of California. Nowhere
on the earth is it produced so readily or
so bountifully. Such pears, peaches,
apricots, nectarines. etc., as load the trees
Of this valley and Of nearly every valley
in the State which has had any chance to
produce them would stagger the faith of
nlne-tenthS OF my readers. Peach trees
only six years set, which have borne
four large burdens of fruit while growing
luXurlantly each year, are quite common.
Apple trees but three years set, yet
showing at least bushel of large, fair
fruit are abundant. l have seen peach
trees four or five years from the States,
which have all the fruit they can stagger
under, yet have grown three feet of new
wood over the load during the current
season. Dwarf pears, just stuck into the
black loam and nowise tertilzed or culti-
waited, but covered with fruit the year
alter they were set. and thencefOrWard
bearing larger yields each succeeding
summer, are seen IN almost every tolera-
bly, cared for fruit patch. | cannot dis
cover an instance in which any fruit tree,
having borne largely one year, consuIts
It's dignity or It's ease by standing still or
growing wood only the next year, is
common our way. | have seen green
CAGES and other plum trees so thickly set
With fruit that am sure the plums would
far outweigh the trees, leaves and all.'
Thirty-hve years ago Mr.. Greeley dis
covered what we have known only about
ten years.
A fitting companion opinion of Mr..
Greeley's is that of Whiteiaw Reid, as
ex pressed Decem ber 28 1893, in letter TO
Director-General De Young OF the Mid
winter Fair:
I'm response to your invitation for
word about your California Midwinter
international Exposition, il is pleasure
to bear witness to the peculiar fitness of
San Francisco for such an enterprise. I
have often had occasion, in speaking with
foreigners about the varied resources OF
the United States, to say that we have
one single State out of our ftty-fOur which
was in itself capable OF supplying the
world with every single product of every
country that surrounds the Mediterranean
basin, from Spain and Morocco on the
west to the Grecian Islands, Syria and
Egypt on the east. The statement was
never heard without surprise and rarely
without dispute. But when the foreigner
| learned that besides its wheat, its cattle
and its gold, California already pro-
duced wine, raisins, prunes, figs, olive
oil, olives, aprlcOts, nectarlnes, almonds,
oranges, lemons, and nearly every other
fruit of the Mediterranean basin, and that
the soil and climatic conditions which
make their production possible would
make it easy to grow the rest whom
ever demand for them existed, his
incredulity always gave way to amaze
ment, and to the exclamation: a nd this
is only one State out of forty-four What
a countryp The great port and CONNER
cial metropolis of such a State, in such
country, must be peculiarly capable OF
Worthily following Chicago, if anybody
can; and we shall all take pride in your
achievement"
The tables herewith submitted. of ship
ments by rail Of fruits and vegetables, are
compiled from statements made by {. f.
Smurr, General Freight Agent, Southern
Pacific Company, and H. {. Whitehead,
Auditor Santa Ee System. The shipments
of wine and brandy are from the report
of Clarence J. Wetmore, Secretary State
Board of Viticulture. The shipments by
sea are compiled from the Commercial
Herald and Market ReUie1C, February l,
1894
l have made an effort to obtain from
transportation companies all the points OF
shipment rather than only terminals. The
object was to obtain the name of each
shipping point, and the shipments from
such point. But the companies have re-
ported their inability to give this data
this year.
1t should be stated, for the better un-
derstanding of the tables, what territory
is embraced by the terminals.
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA.
San Francisco and Oakland-Counties
north of the Bay of San Francisco, en-
bracing the coast valleys and around the
bay.
San Jose-Santa Clara Valley and coast
counties south, and Salinas Valley.
Stockton-San Joaquin Valley and foot
hill region of that valley, including, of
course, the great raisin region OF Fresno.
Sacramento-All the counties adjacent
to Sacramento County, and the counties
west of Sacramento River, to south
boundary of Tehama.
arysville-Counties contiguous to
Yuba County, and the Sacrament north
and east of Sacramento River.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
Los Angeles-Coast south of Tehachipi,
and counties west to Santa Barbara, and
Immediately around the city OF Los An
geles.
Orange-Orange County