The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-14

Reports are floating about that some
wineries are offering from $12 to SIS for
grapes, and they are absolutely false, says
the Healdsburg Tribune. So far as can be
ascertained there has not been contract
made this year at any more than SILL and
it seems improbable that there will be any
advance much above this figure.
Where phylloxera gets foothold in
vineyard, however small the foothold, it
can hardly be effectually eradicated, says
Tree and Vine, but its effect can be re-
tarded, and a full opportunity given to
replace the vines with resistant stock, by
promptly removing and burning all vines
which show the least effect. Vines taken
out now can be replaced with resistant
late next spring, but it would probably be
better to wait another season.
At Jack Wilson's place, in old Carpin-
terra, is probably the largest grapevine in
the ENTHUSIASTICALLY larger than the
famous Monteclto vine. The vine is of the
Mission variety, and is known to have
been big vine fifty.three years ago. 1t
measures around the trunk in different
places six and seven feet respectively. 1t
runs over trellis 90x75 feet at the limits
of which it is kept carefully cut back. The
product of this single vine is five to six
tons a year.-Ojai, Nordhoff, Ventura
County.
The hop crop is discouraging for this
year, says the Ukiah Dispatch and Demo-
crat. There will only be from one-haf to
two-thirds of a crop and the prices are 80
low that great many OF the growers do
not feel inclined to pick them. Usually
when full crop is picked it means the dis
tribution of about $4,000 for the pickers
in this valley. The short crop and those
that will not be picked will lower the
amount to $25, 900 or under. This will be
especially felt here. Although the crop is
short the hops are OF extra quality.
On certain town lot in Redlands is
COW which cost SIS, a yearling heifer worth
$50 and seventy-fve thoroughbred hens
worth equally as much. During the past
year the cost of keeping the stock has been
$145. During the same time the family has
consumed eggs, chickens and milk of
value of $170, or SIS more than the cost of
keeping. The heifer has grown to value
of $50, milk to the value of 1854 and eggs
and chickens to the value of $146 have been
sold, giving as pay for the care of the stock
for one wear S465.
Considering that this is the product of
town lot, ant is simply the 'side issue" of
u DuSy IdIHily, we Gullik IL SPEAKS well OF
the profit OF keeping frSt-claSs cow and
thoroughbred chickens, and no man has a
right to expect big profit from any other
kind of stock.-Redland Facts.
The New York Sun, commenting on q
statement by the Governor of Wisconsin
that his State contains 100000 acres of
unoccupied and unimproved land, says
that it is a fact that no one knows exactly
how much unoccupied land there is in the
United States. All the figures on the sub
ject are conjectural. There are in the
| United States 1000 Oe0,00 acres of sur
veyed public lands and about l 200, 000, 900
acres of unsurveyed, undeveloped and In
dian lands and reservations. The greater
part of the mountainous region of the
Rockies has never been accurately sur
veyed. and recent figures from the State of
Nevada show the unsurveyed portion to be
in excess of the surveyed part by over
5000, 900 acres. In California, too, there is
a very large amount of unsurveyed land,
and in all of the Territories millions of
acres of the same kind.
Elton Fulmer, professor of chemistry of
the State Agricultural College of Washing
ton, who has recently been investigating
the beet-sugar industry of California, de-
clares that the whole product of the island
of Formosa would not supply one-half of
his State with sugar, and that the sugar
cane growers in the South, through their
journals, admit that they cannot compete
with beet sugar and that they are afraid of
it. The German sugar-beet producers were
so frightened last year that they sent a
representative to this country to look into
affairs here, and in his report he stated
that we were outdoing them, and that
while their labor was slightly cheaper the
Americans were doing SO per cent more
work to the man, and that in their country
land was worth from 5000 to $500 an acre,
while in this country it could be had easily
at from $50 to $40, and that altogether
America has decidedly the best of them in
production and cheapness. The quality.
too, is better than theirs, and the beets OF
this country better and larger.