The San Francisco call., 1895-05-23

OF them for many years to come at good
profit to the grower.
| Go where you may and there are no bet
! ter apples to be found than are grown on
few OF our mountain ranches, but we do
| not grow near enough of them. We buy
at home all that are raised and pay big
| prices for them, too. There are plenty Of
| people living in our adjoining counties
| who want our good apples as well as our
fine oranges and excellent lemons.
Sugar beets grow well here, and instead
of sitting down waiting for the sugar fac
tory to start up, feed them to your hogs
| they will fatten hogs as rapidly as corn.
! This has already been demonstrated by q
test made by a farmer of Watsonvile.
| Carrots yield enormous crops in any
| portion of our county with irrigation. and
| they, too, are great producers for animals.
| ton is applicable to our Tulare County
! farmers or not but as it was said by San
Joaquin farmer it may be help to some
| of us to think it over. He says:
1--WE let our timber rot and buy fencing.
| We throw away our ashes and grease and
and buy guano. We grow weeds and buy
vegetables and brooms. We catch scent
| fish with four-dollar rod. We build
| schoolhouses and send our children off to
be educated. We send our boys out with
| fortv-dollar gun and ten-dollar dog to
| hnnt for 10cent BIRDS
| And he might have added: We sell our
| hogs for cents and buy our bacon for Ii
| cents.
But in this short article it is impossible
| to mention one-quarter OF the good re-
sources Of our county. Suffice it to say
! there is none in the State that anywhere
| equals it and no industrious man who lives
| here ought to ever say hard times with so
many grand opportunities as Tulare pre-.
senNs.
The first apricots of the season made
their appearance in Riverside ten days ago,
but the price, 10 cents pound, rendered
them quite luxury.
As the result Of investigation and read
ing of reports the Pomona Times says that
in this State the apricot crop viii be little
| if any over one-third the average; the
prune net over half and cherries are short.
| The peach crop will be large. Owing to
! the shortage of other staple fruits peaches
| will likely. bring satisfactory prices. In
| Pomona Valley the apricot and prune
crops will be very light and the peach crop
large.
R. G. Kells of Sutter and G. W. Hutch
| ins Of Yuba both tell the Oroville Register
that prunes are falling badly this year
from the trees. So serious is this fall that
the prune crop will be materially lessened.
This is not confined to any one locality,
but there are similar reports from Redding
on the north to points in the San Joaquin
Valley in the south. The trees blossomed
! profusely, but after the fruit was formed
it began dropping and has seriously af-
fected crops.
! Pineapples grown in the famous El Cajon
| Valley. within twenty miles of San Diego,
| are the latest practical illustration of the
adaptation of the soil and climate in this
county for raising every kind of fruit, even
| the finest tropical varieties, says the San
| Diego Union. Local dealers report these
| homegrown pineapples to be superior to
| those raised in the southern countries,
| and the demand for them is far in excess
| of the supply. Those now in the market
are of fair size, firm, juicy and of excellent
| flavor.
The chief complaint this year by Eastern
| buyers, says the Pomona Times, is that
oranges do not arrive in as good condition
as they did year ago, and yet there has
been no frost or other apparent causes
why it does not. Shippers are casting
| about for the true reason. Some think it
may be found in too much irrigation, or to
| the use of the wrong kind of fertilizers.
| The texture of the rind and pulp seems to
| be less firm than in previous years. Grow
ers should look into this matter. Shippers
say it is one that fruit-growers should at
| once investigate. Whatever can be learned
| in point should be-