The herald., 1896-03-16
FARMER AND FRUITGROWER

Redlands will give an eastern man
$4,000 bonus to establish 100000 frui
cannery in that city.
Orange shipments from Riverside are
decreasing rapidly. Last week they aver
aged only four cars per day. Total mum
ber of cars shipped from there up to las
Friday evening was 1898.
About 80 acres of the Chino Valley Bee
Sugar company's land will this year he de
voted to experimental purposes. Differ
ent new varieties of beet seed will be testet
and different kinds of fertilizers will be
continued.
The Indiana Farmer gives the following
formula for the "Douglas mixture" fol
poultry: zone pound sulphate of iror
(copperas); two gallons water: carefully
dissolve in it one ounce sulphuric acid.
Dose, tablespoonful to each quart of drink
ing water. Use carefully and for only a
short time. 1t is given for roup and
cholera"
The talk of a cannery for visalia 10 being
revived. Some of our capitalists who de-
sire popularity as well as profit can gain
both by furnishing money for the enter
prise. We have the finest canning peaches
in the world. and when the Visalia brand
is once established it will be an easy mat
ter to find market for all be can pack.
We need cannery this season.-Visalia
Times.
p. d. Armour, jr., has just completed an
actual test of feeding wheat to hogs OH his
farm at Oconomowoc. September ! 9th he
weighed eighteen pigs, 1878 pounds: Sep.
tember 29th the same pigs weighed 25O0
pounds, gaining 523 pounds. and receiving
nothing for feed except 1900 pounds of
crushed wheat. Taking the present mar.
ket value for hogs, 3 cents, it would make
the value received for the wheat $26.25 or
little Q1 pQnfS hIIlhaI a0ai1st a
cost of about SO cents for the wheat.
Assessor King of San Luis Obispo county
reports of bearing vineyards 1904 acres
non-bearing. 759; lemons and oranges,
1295 bearing trees. 1900 not bearing; de-
ciduous fruits. 246,23l bearing trees, 1919 y
O3O not bearing. The largest single item
is pruues, of which there are 10000
trees in bearing and 54.S20 not bearing.
The total acreage of prunes, estimating
100 trees to the acre, is over 1900 acres.
San Luis Obspo has hitherto not been
considered as a fruit county, but it evil
IDENTITY does some business.
The San Jose Mercury says that last year
the importation OF prunes into this country
amounted to only 3,963,OOO pounds,
against 4,64l 900 in 1894. This was due
largely to the short crop in France, but
why should the United States import sim
gle pound of pruues? California grows as
perfect prunes as are produced anywhere
IN the world, and i'll quantities sufficiently
large to supply the present demand. In
fact, the growers fear that from now on
the demand will not keep pace with the
increasing supply. They can. however. if
they set about 1t. create much more eX-
tensive market than at present exists
Petaluma Argus.
From the summary of The reports from
the northern portion of the state published
in the Rural Press regarding the effects of
the cold snap preceding the recent storm.
it appears that the deciduous fruit crop
will suffer very material shortage. AL
monds, apricots. cherries, piums and
peaches were badly damaged in many To-
calities, where the growth was we'll adj
vanced. We suspect that more harm was
done to the tender growth containing the
fruit buds of the orange trees in Southern
California than is generally realized. al
though it is so early that it is possible q
new growth may furnish all the fruit
setting that is Observation-Disclosures Press.
Germany offers fine market for Cali
fornia dried fruits, according to informa-
ton furnished the state department by
Frank II. Mason, United States consul gen.
eral at Frankfort-on-the-M Main. Sun-dried
California apricots, peaches and pears, he
says, sell at retail in Frankfort and neigh
boring towns for from % to 23 cents a
pound, and their use in Germany, even al
these prices, is steadily increasing.
Mr.. Mason points out that there is a
margin of 16 cents between the price the
grower gets in California for each pound
of this fruit and the price he can obtain in
Germany. thus giving him chance fol
large profits by shipping the sun-dried pro-
duct abroad. The cost of the fruit when
landed at Hamburg or Bremen, freight
and duty paid, would not exceed 8 cents
per pound, exclusive of packing and hand.
ling.-The Resources of California.
For months past good apples have re-
tailed in Pomona from five to six cents q
pound. MIR. S. Steele of Chino, observing
this fact. said he could make much money
by raising apples at one cent a pound, and
he thought some of experimenting on the
Chino black land on the west side of the
creek near the dairy. The belltiower is
the favorite in the market. 1t brings the
highest prices. Lately they have been
cents pound here or two for five cents.
Good, tart, juicy apples always command
a high price, and there are hundreds of
thousands of acres in Southern California
that vii, produce the very best of apples
and there are more acrSs that will not.
But there is money in growing the right
kind of apples, properly keeping and mar.
keting them. There is good apple land on
the Chino ranch Pomona Times.
In an interview of recent date Claus
Spreckes stated that he had great faith in
sugar beets, and predicted that the sugar
beet industry would some day be one oi
the most important industries in the state.
In speaking of visit of inspection which
he had made to The beet growing sections
he said:
"These late rains have been of inestima
BILE value to that part of the country, and
the outlook for this year is very promising.
This is particularly true concerning the
beet sugar industry. In the Pajaro aud
Salinas valleys considerably increased
acreage has been planted, and all of it 10 in
splendid condition. Sugar beets have
been of great material benefit to that part
of the state. My investments here and
elsewhere ir California, in fact, have been
of such character as to inspire me with
the utmost confidence in the profltablenesl
Of the industry.
II have still more capital to invest in the
beet sugar industry. Wherever I find the
farmers sufficiently interested in the sub
ject. if the climate and soil are suitable.
am ready and willing to assist them in de
veioping the industry, not alone by the
establishment of factories in their immedi'
ate vicinity, but also in the way of assisting
them financially in the cultivation of the
raw product. In other words, am willing
to back up my faith in beet sugar by all
the capital that may be required. ."-Lod
Sentinel.