The San Francisco call., 1896-02-03

| through would make O neat return on TWO OF
three hundred good layers. The same argu-
ment applies to table poultry. With freight
| tariff of at least 81 per dozen, Eastern poultry
sells rapidly. Recently consignment of 1000
| fowls. Shipped from the State of Kansas, was
received in one of our cities and sold At prices
satisfactory to the shippers. Wheat will never
! again sell in California for 81 or So per sack!
and the sooner our farmers of the ..old school,
realize this and devote some attention 10 truck
farming the more prosperous they Will be.
| Happily the great shrinkage in wheat
exports has been counterbalaneed by our
] increase in orchard products. In 1882 the
value of fruit shipments was 81, ,O43 10,
against $15, ,029 TO in 1894. The report says:
| At this time we have about met the demand
| for fruit and we deem 1t inadvisable to further
extend the planting of new orchards until an
| increased market is assured, as the trees now
| IN full bearing, and those that Will come INTO
| bearing within the next few years. viii supply
| all ordinary demand. We consider IT better 10
extend other agricultural possibilities than to
cripple those now on paying basis. The cul-
tivation of sugar beets and tobacco, truck
farming the raising OF poultry ana carrying
offer better inducements at TINS tine tnsn does
the further extension OF the fruit INDUSTRY
The shipments of fresh fruit East in
1895 was about 1900 cars, ana that OF the
previous year nearly $500 cars.
San Francisco ranks third in daily ex-
ports to foreign countries, New orK ana
Boston being respectively hrst ana second.
The output from this port in 80 was as
$71, ISL; cheese, 271 101 pounds, at Sz' ,o94i
total 500, ,075. or about $50 900 less than tnat
of "a. Commenting on this INDUSTRY tAe
report says:
No adjunct of farm life offers more induce
ment for further development anu eAISsnslon Yen @
than does the dairy business II properly Gun
Quoted. and no other industry OF TINS otate III
vites the attention of capital with the assur-
anee against loss that is Te limit
The natural conditions OF soil, climate anu
surroundings for the promotion OF the dalry
interests are not equaled IN the mOsb IaFoAOo
countries of the world.
This interest needs organization and CO.
operation. There should be an organlzatIon
of milk producers in each county in the state.
Mr.. Tomasini, member of the State Dairy
Bureau, has aptly said: "Ihe creamery is Inc
only salvation for the Cal1tornla, oalry Ill IN
dustry." By this method the small producer
will be benefited, as market Tor all surplus
milk will be secured. There is no one farmer
milking cows but who would prott by the To-
cation OF creamery in his vicinity.
The San Francisco Board of Health have our
lasting gratitude for their earnestness IN bring
ing to light the atrocities practiced by the
average vender of milk in that City. In In
spector Dockery tn ey have selected faithful
and fearless official, whose acts in the iulnl-
ment OF his duties should receive proper recos-
milton from the authorities OF San Francisco
The showing made by this official OF the adui-
terations OF milk, to say nothing OF the hlth1-
ness practiced by the socalled milkmen OF
thct City, brings home to all the necessity OF
reorganization of the method of supplying milk
to customers.
It is not generally known, but it is neverthe-
less fact, that California has within her
boundaries more land adapted TO the culture
of tobacco than all the tobacco-proquclhg
States east of the Rocky Mountains, and more
particularly is this true as to the production
| of the kind known as cigar leaf, a variety that
has made Connecticut famous; the climate IS
also peculiarly well adapted to the curing OF
| the Havana seed leaf. The coast counties are
| more especially the favored section for the
growth of aromatic Iobaccos, while the Sacra-
mento and San Joaquin valleys will aDun-
dainty grow the class known as Virginia,
| North Carolina and Kentucky tobacco.
! The large area of land in California suscepti-
| BILE to sugar beet culture, and the vastly i'm
| proved method of handling this prolific root
| in its transformation into sugar, warrant the
State Agricultural Society in again urging its
! cultivation.
last season, profit from 81 so to So per ton
has been returned to the producer with pros
pect of increased yield and correspond1ngiy
| greater profit per acre. What California most
| needs is the development of her industrial
| capacity. Her citizens are not looking to this
with the vim Characteristic of other countries.
In Europe the tendency is to create new in
| dustries, and encourage the full development
| of her resources for the benefit OF her large
| population, and with commendable results. In
the matter of this very subJect-the growth of
sugar beets-there has been a remarkable stride
within the past few years-more SO there than
| In any other portion OF the globe.
California, with her ,200,0 900 population, and
| with a territory to supply that is peopled by
| 65,000000 souls, could easily maintain, with
| the producing quality of her soil, twenty fac
tories at least. Since 1888 the sugar produced
by Belgium has doubled. They are not slow
| in that country to recognize their advantageF,
and unless the people of the State rise TO fste
! situation, the development OF many OF our
/ dormant resources win be left to the next gen.
Grafton. AS Director Gird truly says in his
recent paper upon the subject of sugar beets:
| 'sWe find here in California all those natural
conditions by which the sugar beet was en-
| abled to come into existence in its original
home; such mild, dry climate, deep al
luvial soil, and long periods OF sunshiny
weather, which Will eventually cause it to be-
come one of the great economical and indus
trial products of California"
The beet sugar output of this State for
| 1895 was as follows: Chino factory, o.
| 100000 pounds; Watsonville factory,
p, ,890, 900 pounds; Alyarado factory,
! 5,400, 900 pounds-about value of 81 2,046,-
$40.
The possibilities are favorable for an ex-
| tension of trade in many agricultural and
horticultural products, the report says.
| The fruit-grower should look more closely
to the packing of the dried product. This
class of fruit should be graded and sold in
boxes of from five to fifty pounds in
weight. In the extension of trade in our
products it might be suggested that there
are inducements here for the manufacture
of citric acid from the inferior grades of
lemons. also grape sugar and extracts of
all kinds. Broom corn is another product
that we import and pay 500 per ton for,
when any of our river lands viii produce
superior marketable article Condensed
milk is brought from Michigan and
shipped from the port of San Francisco to
the Pacific Ocean trade. The meat-curing
industry could be extended with profit,
thereby diminishing the export of this
highly essential article of commerce.