The record-union., 1895-07-03
TEE FRUIT CROP is VERY SHORT.
Lightest Shipments East Made for
Many Years.
Cool Weather the Past Week All
Over the state-The State
Service Reports.

Over the state-The State
Service Reports.
The weather and crop reports for the
past week, received by Director Barwick
of the State Weather Service, are as fol-
lows:
Red Bluff-The weather has been fine
for harvesting and fruit-drying. Early
peaches and prunes are coming in, and
probably several carload shipments will
be made next week.
BUTTE.
Berry Creek-Haying is in progress.
and the crops are much better and heavier
than was expected.
Chico-The fruit crop is pretty good.
There is a full crop of peaches; the nut
trees are all well filled, and the prune
crop is heavier than many thought it
would be-
Palermo-Prunes and oranges are
dropping badly, and small crop is ex-
pected. Highest and lowest temper
atures, 11l0 and $50.
Honcut = Fruits are not up to the
standard.
Haying is finished, with an extra large
yield of good quality. Harvesting is in
full blast; wheat light and lots OF it
shrunken badly; fruit ripening slowly
and is not Of good quality.
COLUsA.
Highest and lowest temperatures, 1922
and $50.
Yuba City-The fig crop promises to be
a large one and is now ripening.
YUBA.
The cool weather has been favorable
for fruit. The apricot crop has been
marketed. and the result showing
not One-fifth of an ordinary crop.
The peach crop seems to grow less
as estimators give their opinions. Grapes
and plums show well and promise fair
crop. Wheat is not turning out even as
much as was expected, and considerable
of that is shrunken.
SACRAMENTO.
Folsom-The hot spell has caused the
fruit to ripen rapidly. In some instances
the berries have ripened up too rapidly,
and loss has resulted, though taken alto
gether the damage has not been as great
as one would imagine 1t was.
Orangevale-The north wind and hot
weather did some damage to fruit. Har-
vesting and heading in full blast. High
est and lowest Temperatures, 1l20 and 56'.
Sacramento-Shipme OF fruit East
are not heavy at the present time, as the
fruit is coming along slowly on account
of the cool weather which has prevailed
for the week past. Fruits of all kinds
need warmer weather. Bean planting
has commenced and large acreage will
be planted. Highest and lowest tempera-
lures were 6S0 and $50.
Clay-Summer-fallow wheat sown in
OotO ic hr1r ~ q
that sown in November shows no shrink.
age at all. The yield is very poor to the
acreage sown.
Union House-Grain is not turning out
as well as expected. The barley has con-
siderable smut. There is not much grain
in this section.
Trask-The prevailing winds and cool
weather has retarded the ripening OF
fruit, but will cause the fruit to develop
more fully while the trees are recovering
from the hot blight. Bean planting has
about been completed, with the largest
acreage ever known to have been planted
in this section. Fruit shipments light as
compared with last season. The peach
crop is not as large as usual.
YoLO.
Winters-Crop reports are more dis
oouraging every day. Wheat and barley
are falling short fully one-half in some
pay the expense of harvesting. On the
adobe lands. however, the loss from shat
tering is tritiing, the straw being shorter
and less exposed to the force of the winds
than the ranker growth of the uplands.
The almond crop is now estimated ct
about one-fifth of full crop.
Dunnigan-Harvesting is in full blast
and the yield Is not up to expectations.
Raisin crop good. Highest and lowest
tamuaraturoS l(F2o and 55O
soLANo.
The wheat crop 10 turning out only
about half of a crop in this (Rio VISTA
district, and the grain is very poor at
that.
Tremont-The general opinion is that
the short crops in this vicinity is due to
something else besides the north winds.
1t is thought that the early rains of last
fall had considerable to do with 1t. The
yield of aprico.s will be light.
Batavia-The grain crop on the adobe
land is turning out very poorly.
VacRville-Farmers are of the opinion
that the joint worm has done more dam
age to the wheat crop than the north
wind; it is certain that there would not
have been even an average crop if there
had been no north wind, as a large num-
mer-fallowed grain were entirely empty.
| 1t is possible that this is the work Of the
worm. Fruit drying is fully under way.
soNoMA.
Forestville-The early peaches are
| ripening and the crop is light. Highest
! and lowest temperatures, 9io and 4So.
Petaluma-The grasshoppers are very
destructive in this vicinity just at the
present time.
SANTA CLARA.
Cupartano-The fruit driers in this dis
trict are somewhat bothered with the
| diabrodica duodecem punctata. Both
fruit and vegetables are being destroyed
by this worm.
Gilroy-The beet crop looks well and
very large acreage is planted.
Campbell-The fearful dropping of ap-
ricots has brought that variety OF fruit
| well up in price, and peaches are now
dropping quite badly. The crop of
prunes will not if at all exceed that of
last year. In fact in many of the orchards
the crop will be lighter, and the young
trees which did not bear last year are not
bearing any this year; apricot picking
will begin next week.
SAN JOAQUIN.
Lodi-Barley harvest about ended:
crop light and quality fair; wheat harvest
begun, but the grain shows shrunken
condition. Grapes have set well and
promise good crop; all summer crops
doing well. Highest and lowest temper
atures. 1O20 and $40.
MERGED.
Los Banos-The wheat crop west of the
Fresno Slough is the best known in the
history of this county. The damage done
by smut or rust, or both, is confined to
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