The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1895-01-03
THE MISSION Olive.
1t is Not Surpassed for p;cL,,.
Purposes.
HE PRODUCTION OF OLIVE OH
A Delicious Food When Properv D.
served-Gradual Increase ofits Con.
sumption in Cal fornia.

B. M. Lelong, Secretary of the s+o..
Board of Horticulture, who has 80
special attention to the picking Of tba
olive, expresses the opinion that tbo
Mission variety is practically unsnr.
passed for that purpose. Its fruit il os
moderate size. and, when pronerlv
treated, makes delicious and wbolo.
some and highly nutritious food
Ripe olives, picked in brine. as nr+
up in this State, are consumed to a crn'
siderable extent in California, but tbo
public are rather slow to appreciate
their merits. In the olive producing
countries of Europe the fruit is COM
monty and largely used in this wav
and forms part of the every day food
of large portion of the people, Tho
berries are also used in dried form,
slightly sailed.
The hard, green olives, such as those
imported from Europe, are seldom eaten
abroad. They are condiments rather
than food, and are better used sparinglv
as an occasional relish than as a regular
article OF diet. Some persons. how
ever, attribute to them curstive v;r.
tue in certain forms of dyspepsia, and
it is not unlikely that they do exert
some tonic influence on the digestive
organs, when used with discretion and
not to excess. Such olives are also
much used in cookery to impart flavor
to meat dishes.
The production and CONSUMPTION of
olive oil in California are also steadily
increasing, though the increase is not
rapid. The pure oils bottled by the
producers, under distinctive labels, con.
tlnue to bring better prices than the
best foreign oils known to this market.
: Olive Oil is here used chiefly for salads,
though its superior excellence in cook.
cry, for many purposes, is gradually
becoming recognized, even among many
whose prejudices against it have been
very strong. The oil may be heated to
a much higher degree than butter, which
is one OF its claims to the consideration
of housekeepers. Fish, delicately fried
i'll pure olive oil, take ON a delicate
golden brown. and save for their SUPER
: Tor excellence when so treated, no one
would detect the manner of their cook
ing.
The black scale has been trouble-
, some pest of olive orchads, PARTICULARLY
:, III the coast counties, where the fogs and
moist winds, with the absence of high
y temperatures, have favored its multiple
, cation. But the Introduction of par
asitic ladybug from Australia has prac-
tically rid most of the orchards of this
@ plague, thus obviating the need of per.
= iodical spraying and effecting great
; saving of time and money for the or.
: chardist.
: While the potts of the olive gowing
: have not poved so largo as many per.
sons had been led to expect, it remains
:. one of the best and safest of fruit trees
Il to plant, and there appears to be nc
i prospect of production in this
j. branch of horticulture.
y By the last steamer from Honolulu
% Alexander Craw, the entomologist o,
y the State Board of Horticulture, re
70 ceived four boxes of ladybugs known tt
= science as the ChryptolHmus Mentrous
~ y Teri. They were in the pupal stage O
y growth, in which state they are GOV
" cred with a cotton-looking substanc,
- - and resemble the cotton grape scale.
~ ~ Emerging from the pupa state, tn
- bug is at first buff colored, ultimatel,
J., becoming black, with reddish brown
% extremities. This ladybug, with tn
= formidable name, has done great ser
y vice in the Hawaiian Islands. 1t wa
' introduced from Australia ten month
ago by Professor Koebele and mad
short work of destroying a TROUBLESOME
scale insect that threatened the life o
% the orange trees and the coffee planta
a lions. The useful bug multiplies will
K amazing rapidity.
j. The principal service which this lat
,r importation is expected to do in Cali
n fornia is to make war on the meal bug
,r that infest citrus orchards in some O
s. the southern counties. One colony goe
4. to Los Angeles, one to Santa Clara ant
ot another to the Experimental Station a
If Berkeley.