The herald., 1895-05-05
LOCAL FIELD OF COMMERCE
Last Week an Eventful One
for Seedlings
THE DECIDUOUS FRUITS
Observations on the Chino Valley
Sugar Enterprise
FRUITS
DECIDUOUS F
An Int, . ting Letter By New York City
Fruit House Horace W. Day to Fruit
Growers, "Wednesday Next

ful one in the history OF the Seeding or
ange. Points heretofore considered the
most desirable for April trade have con-
sumcd practically nothing on u +. o. b.
purchase, while eastern points. only
known in the past as consignment or auc-
tion markets are f. o. b. purchasers AS
a result of the new experiences, Callior-
mia will OF course hold the great Middle
West as a customer, when it shall nave
fully recovered from the financial depres-
sion it is now staggering under, ana III
addition find in New York ana other
eastern points good and growing con-
summer
Foreign stock is arriving in New York
CITY IN 5000 to 10, 900 box lots. and reports
Yesterday from that city are that it is ar
irving in a heated condition which ex-
plains the returns of eighty and ninety
cents per box.
The local bank clearings for the week
show sixty per cent increase over the
corresponding period OF last year.
The Pomona Progress i'll Il recent issue
has the following under the heading of
deciduous fruit outlook:
Deciduous fruit growers agree .hat
there Will not be more tran one-half .. a
crop of apricots this year, and some put
their estimates as low as one-thrd OF
crop. Similar reports come from other
parts of Southern California, while in the
principal apricot-growing regions north
the crop was largely destroyed by frosts.
In this region only the young groves and
those which bore light crop last year
will yield much fruit this year. 1t is
certain that in many of them the young
fruit was not thinned as it should have
been.
On the other hand. the peach trees
were never more heavily loaded than
they are now. and some growers conf
IDENTIFY predict that there will be from 800
to 1000 tons of that fruit in this valley
this year. instead of about 600 tons as
their was last year. There must be a
vigorous thinning of the young fruit. or
there will be Il poor quality of peaches
when the harvest time comes.
The present outlook for prunes is good,
though it is a little early to tell how the
crop will set. Pears. too. promise good
yield, and the prospects for small fruits
were never better i'll this valley.
The same newspaper also has these OBJ
servations on the Chino Valley Beet Su-
gar company and the effects of its opera
tions:
The Chino Valley Beet Sugar company
has made a careful estimate Of the beet
crop at Chino aid Anaheim for the COM
ing season. and states as a result of its
Investigations ths the farmers OF the
Chino valley will deliver 80, 600 tons of
beets at the factory there this season and
those of Anaheim 81, 900 tons more. In
other words. the company is laying plans
to manufacture 100, 900 tons of beets into
sugar at its Chino factory during the
coming summer. That means. said
one of the officials of the company TO us
the other day, that 500. 900 will pass
through the Pomona banks this summer
by reason of the sugar enterprise at
Chino That 100000 will event ally
pass, too, out through all the channels of
l. 4. Ill = r n
feel the good effects OF it, Ii there were
more Chinos throughout the country times
would be better.
Horace w. Day of the large New York
city fruit house, Sgobel e. Day, and who
has recently returned from Palermo,
Italy, will address the fruit growers of
Southern California at the chamber of
commerce building, this city, on Wednes-
day afternoon, next. Mr.. Day will meet
the deciduous fruit men at 80 p. IN. and
the citrus fruit men at $50 pm. Messrs.
Sgobel d Day have recently written a
letter to one of the exchanges referring
TO the lemon situation abroad, which has
aroused very widespread interest. Hun
dreds of requests for copy have been
made. and some few distributed. The
letter contains much that never before
has been published. 1t is as follows:
Yours of the 18th at hand and noted
The period of the lemon grown in Cali
fornia is practically the same as it is in
Sicily. where the spectators buy fruit on
the tree from the first OF October and the
contracts remain in force sometimes until
the first of August or September. On
these dates a man who has bought gar
den IS obliged to take all the fruit on the
trees or leave iC there, and then the
owner of the garden sell, his crop for the
next season. So always in September, in
Sicily, virtually there are scarcely any
lemons to be had. The first Sicily LEM
l,ar s
beginning OF November, and then begin
to increase up to May and June.
Regarding the Italian terms of Sicily
lemons we give you the following expla-
nations:
The lemons gathered in October all
over Sicily are called Primo Fiore, which,
translated, means first flower. That is to
say, lemons wele grown from the first
flowers which appeared on the trees.
Lemons shipped during Novem Der and
December are cut in these months and
called November cuts, but this is princi-
pally those lemons which are gathered in
the vicinity of Messna. and where from
time immemorial it has been considered
that the lemons cut in November and
packed away were much better keepers
than lemons cut in any subsequent
month: These lemons are now shipped
to Russia or the northern part OF Europe.
and all that comes here goes to Montreal,
where they have not yet learned that
fresh cut lemons are just as good or bet
ter than the others.
January and February-In Messina. for
the same reasons we have stated above,
the lemons cut or gathered in these
months are called fresh cuts to distin-
gllish them from those that are gathered
in November and December. We wish
you to distinctly understand that this No.
vember cut and fresh cut relates to fruit
gathered in Messna or the surrounding.
country, because lemons coming from
Palermo and other sections are gathered
continuously and they do not have these
distinguishing names which show what
period OF the year they were gathered.
March and April-The lemons gathere
during these months are called Biancuzzo
for the reason that Banco in Italian
means white, and the lemons gathered
DUNG these months have sort of whit
ish appearance, so that they are given
the name of Biancuzzo.
May, June and July-The lemons gath
cred during these months are called Yer
dill for the reason which translated
means greensh. They are given this
name for the reason they have a sort of
greenish appearance. The skin is green
ish and tough.
August and Septemb berthe lemons
gathered during these months are the
last run. and as they are neither Primo
Fiore, fresh cuts. Nerdilli, they are call
ed Bastardo onia. which explains itself.
We hope this will interest you.
Yours very truly