The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-30
The Grape-GroWers Anticipate
Good Prices This
Season.
PROFIT IN OLIVE CULTURE.
A Southern California City Advised
to Plant Trees for Municipal
Revenues.

execution and the purchaser at sale may
enter upon the land for the purpose OF
gathering and removing the crop"
The material advance in the price OF
wheat has greatly encouraged the farmers
of the West and the prospects of the grain
grower have suddenly been lifted to a
notch almost as high as that to which the
hopes of the horticulturists have been ele-
waited.
| In view of the fact that the Florida
orange crop was injured by the blizzard
| the Florida Farmer recommends that the
orange-growers try the following: Pea
nuts, cassava, melons, sweet corn, egg
plant, okra, lima beans, milo maize and
| COW peas.
S. L. Berkebile furnishes to the San Diego
Sun the following recipe for the extermina-
| ton of the so-called cutworm or army
worm: One ounce of paris green to one
| gallon OF water: cut cabbage or tuFnip-
| tops fine, soak short time in the solution
and distribute in close proximity to trees
or vegetables. 1t will kill the worms every
| time.
a strong demand and good prices. Those
storms in the Central and Northern States
altered Western prospects for the better in
many ways. The celebrated Chautauqua
| grape belt in New York, from which grapes
have IN past seasons been shipped even to
| by the cold spell. Indeed, the loss there
is estimated at 81 800 900. The grape belt
| in question is mainly in Erie County, n.
| Y, and embraces $4,000 acres.
| And now another pest has turned up in
the shape of a caterpillar which is ravag-
! ing some of the vineyards near Fresno.
| One vineyardist has set a company of
| Chinese RI UnrE Co1oStio1 oad will
a pair of scissors, to destroy the caterpillars
by shipping their bodies in twain. The
| Fresno Republican SAYS better plan is to
pick off the caterpillars, of which there
may be fifty or sixty on each vine, drop
them in BUCKET smeared with coal oil and
then bury them. Buhach sprays have also
| been recommended.
| A California apiary yields the richest
and most deliciousy favored honey in the
market, says the Concord Sun. Particu-
| larly the honey from Contra Costa County,
! where grow in greatest profusion and
| variety not only the loveliest wild flowers
in the State, but cultivated flowers from all
parts of the world. Bookkeeping is a pur-
suit that is especially favored by invalids
and those who come to this coast in search
of lost health. The amount of manual
labor required is comparatively light while
the outdoor exercise is what the average
invalid is most in need Of"
the potato crop. Estimating the yield at
only 200 bushels per acre and the price at
40 cents per bushel, we have $50 per acre as
the value OF the crop, while for corn,
allowing 40 bushels per acre and putting
the price at 30 cents, we have only $12 pei
of the potato crop. If we estimate the
vaiue OF the oat crop we will have, say &
bushels per acre at Is cents bushel, or $1s
per acre, leaving the potato crop worth So
more than the oat crop If we estimate
other farm crops we will find about the
same difference in favor of the potato.
Bean-growing, says the Spokane Wash. J
Review, is rapidly becoming a leading in
dustry with farmers in the Big Bend,
| Palouse and Potlatch regions. especially in
the latter district, where fields of beans oil
nifty acres or more are not uncommon.
This year several thousand bushels OF
beans will be raised for export. 1t paws to
grow beans, as they sell readily at from 2
to 215 cents per pound.
Considering that the area of land suit
able for cherry culture is limited, cherries
will no doubt for many years be one of the
most profitable fruits to raise.
The fruit crop along Snake River in the
State of Washington will be the largest
ever produced in that region. 1t is esti-
mated that there will be 800 carloads OF
fruit shipped from there this year. There
are four growers who will be able to ship a
carload day each from the time the ship
ping season begins.
Vigorous thinning of peaches should be
the rule. There will be a big crop, ard
only large, frst-class fruit will pay. Thin
all YOU dare to and then thin out half of
what is left. The chances are that even
then too many will be left. Small fruit
will go for song. Big fruit will always
command remunerative price.-Los An
geles Porcupine.
| In ic toll oil H. -
meeting of pomologists at Escondido, John
s. Calkins of Pomona said: ut is generally
supposed that the olive tree does not come
into bearing until it is seven or eight years
old, but that does not apply to this coast
for 1T is common for the trees to commence
bearing the third year after planting in the
orchard, and continue to bear for genera
tons. There are trees at San Diego Mis-
sion supposed to be 125 years old, which
are still bearing, having yielded crop this
year. From your local paper, the Escon-
dido Times, clip the following: There is
growing on the sidewalk at the residence
OF P. a. Bettenss, this city, Manzanillo
planted in the spring of 1889. When
! planted the tree was about fifteen inches
high, raised from a rooted cutting of the
previous year. In 1892 the tree yielded
one gallon of olives; in 1893 there was
gathered from the same tree five gallons of
| olives
"1fall the streets of your city were planted
| to olive trees, the revenue to the city would
be large. Those tourists who came to the
kitchen door could be accommodated, as
the crop natures at a season of the year
when they are most numerous; they could
be employed by the city to pick olives,
and guarantee they would not consume
more than they gathered. I believe l am
within bounds in saying that the returns
from the olive trees would run your city
government, pave your business streets,
put down your cement sidewalks, and keep
your streets sprinkled, besides rendering
your city one of the most beautiful on this
/ coast.
"Olive-growing is specially adapted to
the conditions of the poor man; he may
raise the fruit on cheap land and convert
it into oil and pickles by simple means
the product supplying substantial food for
| his household, and the surplus finding a
willing market at the store Much of the
harvest work may be done by the family
and it comes at a time when work with
other fruits is not required.
coil mills and picking works will in
crease as the supply becomes greater,
where the fruit may still be sold as it now
is, direct from the tree, if growers prefer
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