The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-04
E.. F. Baumard's Fine Prune
Ranch in San Luis Obispo
County.
WHEAT RAISING IN POMONA.
Notes From the Dairy. Poultry
Yard and Apiary-Some In
Structive Hints.


out commercial travellers, is thus echoed
by the Walla Walla (Wash.) Statesman:
The best thing for the shippers in this val
ley to do, it seems, would be to club to-
gether and hire trustworthy men in each
of the principal Eastern markets to take
care of and dispose OF the fruit. If this were
done it would be to the mutual advantage
Of all and tend to increase the price of this
product, from which we should derive
much larger revenue.
The Oregon hop crop last year amounted
to about 10000 bales. Director Payne of
Oregon weather service, after reasonably
careful inquiry as to the present condition
and prospect of this years crop, reports
that it will equal and probably exceed that
Of last year.
The prune crop of Washington is esti-
mated at 100000 pounds, says the Seat
tie Times. This is about four times as
great as last years product. The sales of
last year IN the East were so satisfactory
that inquiries for the present years prod
uct are very numerous.
At the last meeting of the Sonoma
County Hop Growers Association the price
for picking hops was fixed at 80 cents per
100 pounds. Letters were received from
prominent hop-growers in several States,
being of the opinion that the hop outlook
was poor. Many members of the assocla-
ton were of the opinion that it would not
pay to pick hops. even at the low price OF
60cents per 100 unless the market improved.
Some of our exchanges, in speaking of
the operation of beet factories this year,
state that the business is thriving without
the aid of a bounty, says the jacksonville
Pajaronian. There is no evidence to show
any prosperity to brag about. All branches
of the sugar business are enjoying profits
more in expectation than in reality, and
the farmer lost dollar per ton when the
bounty was cut off. The close of this sea-
sons run will show if the beet-sugar bust
ness can be conducted proftably at pres
ent prices for sugar and without bounty.
Henry Sauer of Geer Springs, nine miles
northwest of Weston, Or, furnishes some
figures on bean-raising: Six acres of
beans, white, average, per estimate, ~
tons per acre. He has been offered by
the contractors for the entire crop 81
cents per pound. Cost-Rent of land, $50;
seed, $12 so; harvesting and thrashing,
$25; sacks 1905 at AZ cents each), $27
total, 1924 so. Value of crop-Two and
pounds, at 80 cents per pound, $105o.
This gives for one mans labor for one
four th his time for four months, 1886 so,
wages which will show up as quite liberal
during such times as these, or, in fact, in
any season, be current wages high or low.
Indian corn is q new source of revenue
for the farmers of the San Joaquin Valley,
and the Stockton Independent states that
the experiment of raising Indian corn has
proven great success as far as the present
prospect for crop is concerned, and on some
of the land which has been seeded with the
well-known Illinois crop the owners will
realize quite handsomely. On one piece of
land, which belongs to Eaton, Newell &
Buckley, there has been put in 40 acres of
corn. 1t is now fifteen feet high nearly all
over the field, and on mostof it the stalks
bear three ears each, which are filling out
beautifully. 1t is estimated that the crop
will run at least 100 bushels to the acre.
The care of the corn involves little more
care than the care of wheat or other grain,
but at the present price of wheat the differ
ence in income will more than pay for the
extra labor.
Farming that yields from $50 to 500 per
acre per annum is something for tillers of
the soil to tie to. This is what sugar-beet
farmers do at Chino, says the Pomona
Times. One year with another, sugar
beet farming is the surest for profit. 1t is
kind of farming which gives results in
proportion to the work put upon prepare
ton of the soil and care of the growing
beets. The better the cultivation the
larger the yield. The market is sure-in
fact, the crop is sold before it is planted at
fixed price. There is no chance of loss
by exposure to weather in harvesting, for
the beets are taken from the ground direct
to the factory. Every year some of the ten
ants of land on the Chino ranch who grow
beets become landowners from the sale of
beets grown on rented land. Good farm
ers should carefully look into this bust
ness.
E. f. Barnard, who has fine prune or
chard across the river, is probably favored
with the best crop of prunes for five
year-old orchard in this productive coun-
try, says the Templeton (San Luis Obispo
County, Advance. He has about four
acres set out with about 40 trees to the
acre. 1t is estimated that the yield will be
upward of twenty tons to the acre. This,
at current prices, would make the income
| from one acre of ground $3.50. Mr.. Bau-
mard has been offered $1,000 for his pruue
crop on the trees and has refused, for he
is confident that he can do better. The
success OF Mt. Is suCCcSS lOr every resi-
dent of Templeton, for it means fifty more
| just such orchards the coming year, with
| thirty-tive to fifty new families coming to
our thriving little town. 1t means a
change from the unsatisfactory mode OF
tilling the soil and raising grain and by
hard scrabble be just able to make both
ends meet to the easier mode of fruit rails
| ing.
The Garfield (Wash.) Enterprise gives
this example of three crops from one SOW
ing: Two years ago A. J. Houchin had
| fine crop of wheat on 200 acres of his farm
on Dry Creek that looked as though it
would make thirty five or forty bushels to
the acre. But owing to the continued wet
weather he was unable to harvest it. He
plowed it under, and without seeding it
raised crop that made an average yield
of twenty-threc bushels per acre. This
season he has all but forty acres of it thor
oughly summer fallowed. The forty acres
volunteered a crop that he has Just
| thrashed which made twenty bushels to
the acre, being the third crop the ground
has produced since it was sowed. Talk
about your wheat countries Where are
you going to find one to beat that? This
soil will grow wheat in spite of hail and
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