The herald., 1896-06-10

head of its own growing from single
root. This Is, of course, an exceptional
case. but many q single root Is numer-
ously stooled out.--Visalia Daily Times.
The Kern Echo says that Louis AL
cese seems determined to depoulate that
county Of sheep. A few days ago he
shipped eighty three car loads-three
long trains-to Reno, New, and this week
he will begin to send out 800 carloads to
New Mexico. People with feed to sell
have already felt the effects of the big
now as though the movement would be
as great this year. Wool is so low and
the profits IN the sheep business so mea-
ger that the fiocks have to be sent Where
feed can be procured cheapest.
The Traver Fruit and Raisin COM
pany are figuring on putting In a fruit
grader. A committee has been appointed
to visit other places where graders nave
been used the past year ana 10 report 10
the board of directors Saturday
Every grower is satisfied that graded
fruit sells quicker and for more money
that a miscellaneous variety of sizes,
dun,ped haphazard into the boxes. The
first. and even the second grade. will
bring a higher price than any mixed lot.
Choice fruit well graded and regular
ly packed will always bring the nlgnest
price and outsell any other class OF Iruit
or the market AS a rule 1t does not pay
TO shin poorly packed ungraded fruit
Traver Advocate.
Toe Hibbard of Browns Valley says
the Oroville Register, few years ago
fenced in q triangular bit OF waste ianu
which embraced eighty five acres. he
cleared fifty acres and plantea l.. TO a.,
falfa. Two years ago he filled two parns
with alfalfa hay, doubled the NUMBER or
his stock hogs and sold hogs to the
amount of $780, He rings the shouts OF
the hogs and then let's them run on Il
portion of the alfalfa. He thinks tnere
is far more money In hogs and alfaifa
than in raising corn.
An address has been issued to the raj
sin growers of Fresno by the joint com
mittee of the One Hundred Thousand
club and the Fresno chamber or COM
merce, which sets forth in detail the CO
operative plan for handling this year
crop. The address concludes as follows:
I'm conclusion we summarize the es-
sential points of the plan as follows: 1t
provides for absolute free on board sales
at California shipping points. 1t posi-
lively prohibits commission consign-
ments of raisins to any markets. II
places in the hands OF a committee or In
dependent business men the responsible
ity of fixing prices. 1t has tendency to
raise the quality standard of raisins.
II insures proper and prompt distribu-
ton of the profits of all raisins sold.
These considerations should be suff-
cient to interest the active cooperation
of every grower, whether he be now
classed with the independents, cooper
ative organizations or Is dependent on
commission packers or any one else, for
the plan Is intended at one stroke to re-
move all present obstacles to the success
of raisin growing and the raisin busi-
ness generally"
1t is a great mistake to think that you
will get fruit much earlier by planting
a three-year- tree than by selecting
one-year-old trees, says the PhoeniS
Gazette. The latter will start into
growth from the first, whereas the other
trees are apt to, stand still two or three
years and will never catch up with their
younger brethren. Moreover, the nur-
serymen sell the best trees as One-year-
olds, leaving the weaker ones to struggle
on for another year or so, and these are
too often neglected and stunted speci-
mems.
The Pacific Coast Home Supply COM
pany," the concern whose plan of doins
business has been exposed In recent Is
sues Of this paper, evidently found a
goodly crop of suckers In Orange county
Another farmer was In from the Fair
view country today, whose murmurs
against the methods Of this company are
long and loud. He claims that he was