The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-04

country along the San Diego County coast
line, where the soil is good. but water is so
scarce that hardly a gum tree will grow
without encouragement. Deciduous fruit
trees, Dy persistent cultivation. make
brave effort to produce bountifully, but
the dry rancher is and has been greatly
handicapped, and Is he can now turn his
attention to crop that. like beans. always
brings fair price and thrives under condi-
tions that are adverse to the success of
most crops, he will never lack good crops
and ready markets.
Educate your fruit-growers, your pack
ers, your evaporators and your Gamers to
aim at quality instead of mere quantity,
says Colman's Rural World. Make the
fruit both beautiful to the eve and de-
licious to the palate, and you need have no
apprehension regarding the future of your
fruit industry. | base this remark upon
the apparent fact that large proportion
OF the fruit-growers (as we'll as some of the
packers and canners) either lack the
necessary knowledge or skill to secure the
best results, or are ignorant of the fact that
choice, delicious goods can generally be
sold at a reasonable price. even when COM
mon, unsightly goods go begging at loss
But this is not all. Every pound of un-
palatable dried fruit and every can of
sloppy, unripe fruit discourages the pur-
chaser from duplicating his order, while
every pound of delicious prunes and every
can of ripe, ine-favored apricots, pears
the appetite for more, until the fruit finds
a regular place on the table of the pur-
chaser.
Some Big Peach Exhibits.
We were shown a peach this morning
from the orchard of Hatch q Rock, Rio
Benito, which measured 11x11L inches
in circumference and weighed exactly 16
ounces, says the Willows Journal. 1t was
of the Sellers, cling variety, and was a
beautiful peach. Mr.. Hiett, the proprietor
of the Biggs stage line, informed US that
the aforesaid orchard was full of such
peaches, and that box was shipped from
there yesterday containing twenty peaches,
the weight of the peaches alone being
twenty-four pounds. While we were writ
ing the above. l.. w. Boswell entered our
office with several large peaches in his
hand, which on measurement proved to
average 1112x11 inches in circumference.
Mr.. Boswell informed US they were from
the Hammond place, adjoining that of
Hatch 81 Rock, above noted, and the fruit
was the Sicily cling variety. He had seen
$50 boxes packed, and every peach in them
was as large as those brought to this Office.
Mr.. Boswell also informed US that the
Orange cling and the Muir freestone grew
to size as large and larger in the locality,
going to prove that the land in Hamilton
Township is peculiarly adapted to the
culture of peaches. Just think of box
containing twenty peaches weighing
twenty-four pounds, and then tell US that
old Butte is not good county for fruit.
Here is the suggestion that the Willapa
(Wash.) Pilot makes to its rural readers
In tue absence of creameries and at pres
ent, when milk is abundant and butter
cheap. 1t pays better to convert the milk
into other products than butter. Milk is
worth 80 cents per 100 pounds and it re-
quires 100 pounds to make Az pounds of
butter. Cheese is worth II cents per pound
and it reqires 9 pounds of milk to make a
pound of cheese. There is very little de-
mand for butter at present and prices I'M
certain; then why not make cheese?
Cheese can be stored away and kept until
prices are satisfactory and when winter
comes around butter can be made again
and it is then that the demand and price
are both at their best.