The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-07
AMONG THE COAST FARMS
Possibilities of Tobacco Gull
ture in California Deemed
Good.
FINE GROWTH MADE IN TEHAMA
Irrigated Lands OF the San Joaquin
May Be Devoted to Raising
the Sugar Beet.

The farmers of Lompoc, Santa Barbara
County, will have the largest bean crop
known in that section for years, This crop
will be harvested from mustard land which
is considered the best soil for beans.
George Fry, the bee-keeper, has received
eight pure-blooded Italian queens, says
the Bakersfield Californian. They came
each one, in little cage, and all the cages
Grated Food for the bees was put in the
cages before they started, and they arrived
in prime order. They are rather expen-
sive luxuries, costing very nearly 81 apiece
to lay down here.
1t is reported that the woody aphis is
again making its appearance in the north
ern part of Santa Barbara County. 1t is
now an almost undisputed fact that this
pest infests the roots of the apple tree, as
the aphides are to be seen making their
appearance through the ground. Scien-
fists are now trying to find means of con-
fning these creatures, believing that if this
can be accomplished the pest can be exter-
minated.
There probably is no better land in the
world for sugar-beet growing than the irri-
gated lands of this part of the San Joaquin
Valley, says the Fresno Expositor. The
establishment of beet-sugar factory in
Fresno, or anywhere near Fresno, would
introduce a system of diversified farming
that would bring wealth to our people.
The refuse from these factories when fed
to stock Is a great flesh producer, and be-
sides getting "a a ton for beets the farmer
can get hall the weight of his beets back
again Tor hauling to feed to cattle or hogs.
Farming is business wherein, owing
to the diversified details and often large
areas under cultivation, it is very difficult
for the master hand to keep his eye upon
so many simultaneous operations, there
fore it is especially important that, after
taking great care in the selections of his
hands, he should endeavor to gain their
respect by kind treatment, at the same
time placing trust in them. If he finds
his confidence has been misplaced the
only alternative is to cashier them at the
first convenient opportunity.
Gentleman.
The Fresno Republican publishes an
article in which it is shown that several of
the orchards of that county have this year
paid their owners from $3.50 to $3.50 per
acre. Such cases can likely be found in
Kings County, but if orchards gave re-
turn of only one-half that sum they would
some other purpose. The day for making
large profits in any branch of business has
gone by in California, and henceforth the
husbandman will have to care for what
grows and become economical in his
habits.-Hanford Democrat.
1t is gratifying to note the more enthu-
siastic sentiment that now prevails in the
East in favor of California products The
New York Fruit Trade Journal of recent
date had this to say: ''Trade in general
has come to the conclusion that California
oranges are of better flavor and give better
satisfaction than foreign oranges, and the
Californians appear to have entirely taken
their place in this market. We find il i'm
possible to sell foreign oranges against
them. In reference to the varieties, will
say that the California navelS surpass any
oranges in the world that have ever been
put on the Philadelphia market
The hop worm, which has been such
pest to California, has made its advent in
the Puyallup Valley, and is quite preva-
lent in William Vose's yard, says the
Puyallup (Wash.) Citizen The worm is
the same shade of green as the hop Leaf,
has black head and is three-quarters of
an inch in length. The hop aphis emul-
sion does not seem to destroy it. The leaf
upon which it feeds curls over and eufolds
the worm within it, and affords it an asy-
lum to build web and propagate eggs.
Andrew Nix, who has investigated its hab-
its very carefully, fears thatit may become
very dangerous pest in few more sea-
sons.
King County, modestly remarks the Sc
attic wash Post-Intelligencer, has never
been boastful of its agricultural resources,
although 1t has some excellent farms and
abundance of rich and productive soil
within its bounds that is capable of grow
ing anything in the vegetable or cereal
line produced in the temperate zone. Men
ton is sometimes made of the largest hop
field in the United States, possessed by
King County, but there is modest
meadow of nearly 1000 acres, neighbor to
the big hop field, that is worthy of pass
ing mention. The grass on this meadow
this year averaged five feet in height, and
the average yield of the whole field will be
four tons to the acre of clean, well-cured
hay.
A letter from lone, Morrow County, says
that the other day cloud of grasshoppers
swept down on the ranch of A. H. Smith,
says the Pendleton East Oregonian. The
hoppers began on the garden stuff, and
after cleaning that out, attacked the fruit
which was hanging on the trees. After
almost wholly destroying the fruit they
appeared to be eating the leaves and twigs
OF the trees themselves, and Mr.. Smith was
fearful that they would die. These hop
pers seem to have no special likes and dis
likes. They eat what is set before them, if
it be green and alive, and for this reason
there is danger not only to vegetation, but
to many people living in various parts of
the country.
Elton Fulmer, professor of chemistry of
the State Agricultural College of Washing
ton, who has recently been investigating
the beet-sugar industry of California, de-
clares that the whole product of the island
of Formosa would not supply one-half of
his State with sugar, and that the sugar
cane growers in the South, through their
journals, admit that they cannot compete
with beet sugar and that they are afraid of
it. The German sugar beet producers were
so frightened last year that they sent a
representative to this country to look into
affairs here, and in his report he stated
that we were outdoing them, and that
while their labor was slightly cheaper the
Americans were doing so per cent more
work to the man, and that in their country
land was worth from 5000 to $500 an acre,
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