The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-30

The present season they are selling for
from So to So per box, and the supply has
Deen limited one owing to the recent
freeze in Florida. Those who are fortunate
enough to set out an orchard of grape fruit
IN the near future will, from present indi-
cations, make more money than either the
orange or lemon grower. The tree is very
beautiful In foliage and attracts much at
tentlon when fruiting. 1t often bears its
fruit IN clusters and the flavor is like the
grape, hence the name grape fruit. The
frult has great tonic properties, and is
largely used by persons in delicate health
as an appetizer. 1t is relished best by most
persons when eaten with sugar.-B. S. DIX
ON, Escondido
several farmers claim that good profit
can be made raising oats at SIT per ton,
notwithstanding that number claim that
there is no money IN raising oats, says the
Mount Vernon (Wash.) News. At high
estimate, giving the farmer good wages for
his work, oats can be raised at SIS per acre,
and, taking ton and half of oats per
acre, which is small yield, would leave
clear profit of $40 per acre, or $1,000 from
hundreG-acre oattield. If these figures are
correct, there are but few businesses that
would be more profitable. There never
were at this time of the year prospects
more hattering for raising a large crop than
at the present, and we predict that when
the crop is garnered this fall it will be
such as will astonish our cousins in the
East.
One of the most interesting and instruc-
tive features of the Government display in
the forestry building at the Cotton States
and International Exposition at Atlanta,
Ga. will be set of three models, the one
to represent a 160-acre farm in the hill
lands of the South, which by bad manage
nent, and especially by improper cutting
off the forest, has become quilted, fur
rowcd and silted over, such as one can see
almost IN every State.
The next model will show how, with
bush dams, with ditching, proper drain
age, with terracing, with sodding and re-
planting, the lost ground may be recov-
cred, while the third model, representing
the 100 acres, is to show how, finally, the
farm should look ideally, with the fields
disposed, in good condition, the roads run
| ming at proper levels, instead of up and
down, and the fences reduced to the small
est extent practicable.
Our people want to remember that with
out the Golden States fruit product the
Eastern people would be badly off every
summer, writes G. J. Berry in the Visalia
Times. Do our people realize the impor.
lance OF our lemon product in the near
future? The production OF lemons in Cali
fornia and Florida is so limited that COM
bined it does not cover 10 per cent of our
country's needs, If it was not for the
little island of Sicily our country would be
practically without lemons the greater part
of the year. Now all of Tulare County
cannot grow lemons successfully, but our
lands adapted to this fruit produce
quality as good as the best Sicily, and if
our groves that are now planted were in
bearing there would be a stream of gold
flowing into our pockets for this product
that would make Tulare County, as she is
destined hp the pra of fharn oil
The lemon crop in Sicily is not only short
this year, but the increased demand has
already put the price up 30 per cent and
still further advance is predicted of 80 per
cent. When the present lemon orchards
of Lemon Cove are in full bearing, at the
present market price they will net their
owners $3.50, 600 year.
One cow that gives 5000 pounds of milk
in season will bring more profit than
three 5000 pound-cows.
When the cows begin to scatter as soon
as man appears says an exchange, it
may be concluded that he is rough man
and is destroying the profits of his dairy
in very foolish way.
The great secret in fancy butter making,
says dairy writer, is studied purpose to
keep all foreign substances and f1avors out
of the milk, cream and butter, and have
only original material from start to finish,
and fancy butter results.
from the cheese made in the State of New
ork in one year contains at least 81, 0OO,-
0J0 worth of frst-class butter. This butter
has been tested and tasted by experts and
pronounced in every way equal to that
made from cream by the best processes.
There is, of course. but small percentage
of butter fat in whey, but this amounts to
large sum in the aggregate, and an effort
is being made to devise some way to re-
cover 1t economically.
1t is stated on the authority of J. s.
Browning, chief of awards of the agricul-
tural department of the Worlds Fair that
after all the expense and trouble taken to
maintain and test the dairy breeds on that
occasion, the owners of those animals will
be left without even a typewriter certifi-
cate of their achievements. To make their
humiliation more complete, six manufac-
turers of oleomargarine have got medals
and diplomas for their goods, which were
placed in group 6 of the agricultural class
as meat products. The best product of the
best cows in the world, finished by the
best skill the country could produce, is left
out in the cold and the gigantic frauds get
medals and blue ribbons as a reward of
their audacity.