New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-08-02

name ma p' OF the packer and then purchases are
California for the Eastern Wholesale fruit houses
HOW THE CANNING IS DONE.
rb. sceres At the fruit canneries in the apricot
and peach season are almost ms animated as In the
driving Yards In California fruit canning has De-
come about scientific Industry as one can
imagine ''The Los Angeles Express" reckons that
over $4,000 Is invested In frut-cahhihs eS-
Establishments and machinery In this state. Inc
total pack OF apricots in California last year was
little more than 10000 cases Of canned fruit' Inc
total output Of all canned fruit In the State last
year was 100000 cases. The fruit canner'es en-
ploy more skifu labor and buy only the best Oh inc
apricot crop. When the season OF apricots COMES
around the Gamers have contracts for Its seasons
buy" of that fruit. The grower must iurn' s a
product Of Il certain size and weight; ne mus, narv
his crop carefully picked and hauled to thc camne
30 thai no bruises the fruit. Inc canine, 10
generally very exacting in making the grower i've
up to the Of his contract for the repu'a t,
are too valuable to be trfcd with in these days OF
keen competition in the markets -o,.,s ,,h.rs
300 women and children have the apfico's oo mme
pack the fruit in cans There on are an npper floor is
run by gravity into each can oy cans may be-
heavy iron tray that holds the cans Is "n,f hsre
soIdcrs q seal up thousand cans in twenty minutes
few seconds more and the tray WIN i,s , our bn
OF canned apricots Is swung from the pushca,T, ny
a crane and let down into huge watts OF boiling,
steaming water while attendant times exa g!,yy
the period Of cooking the fruit in the cans. re ~,
labor of labelling and packing the cans IN CASES asses 10
done leisurely-probaby DAY or .WD 'd rs,
tt This writing there are probably some 5000 people
busy twelve hours day In all the Canio , ., IA
neries Nearly all Of them work by the pleEe a and
After the growing Of oranges and lemons there
Is no fruit that is so general money hr ha ,v
the horticultural as the aprSo, W ps and .desp
downs In the prune market in California while
peaches have had diseases and scale ns sros ba
played havoc with the orange Crows P'' ~ ,ha
hopes the apricots have been Rro.,ao price
paid the grower for his fruit by innvi9 sut o.,
companies who dry ana mS sanr the Best fruit
delivered to them in the best shape usually pay
from So ton There have e s,ae yef bns been
very much reduced II not totally ruined ,as t IN
$780, when SpriGG n ca anSe thrifty
apricot orchard will bear four TONS oL ~ nr,cot
IN an rds Oh that have produced tons to the
acre in year. and few that nave EN- ~ d -
Fruit RI the tree for there 100 trees planted 10
an acre in apricot orchards The average Sreiu Vi
apricots In good year Is se'eh 'o'' "
A PROFITABLE ACREAGE.
go It will be seen that a bearing orchard OF apri'
cot trees. carefully cultivated and In good SOIL
,. sofalv r., worth to the horticultural anywhere
from $50 to $50 an acre each year Severai nun
dred orchards brought even 1888 an acre IN 1857
But It must be remembered that fruit-gro"ins III
California II II Is going to yield pront 70 any one,
demands much more labor and more careiui anu
sagacious attention than the average farmer In the
East gives his apple peach trees There Is mere
q constant round Of ploughng and cultivation
among the trees irrigation every thirty days IN the
warm months. scientific pruning every ran or VIII
ter and incessant watchfulness for scale ihsec.s
and wood diseases Then too the IRE OF an IN a pro
cot orchard is much shorter In this Iand Oh pro
Iidc blossomng and fruitage in orchards and gar
dens In no other land probably sv eD s times in
spring seasan and pull off from one-sihth 10 one
third OF the young green fruit because rnunr Of
anricots as "A wholesale fruit INDUSTRY Is coIn-
paratoey so yeum ms 10 how long the average apr
cot tree will bear fruit when 1t comes 70 luii i,
aServ alternate year The general opinion obtains
among horcultursts In this state .nat rn twentv
fulness of such IS over at eighteen or WIZ
years but there others who say twehty-'"ree
years. 49, Fac. u,bose knowledge of
aprcots limited to the occasional purdhaSSe r
few the fruit stands In the ol1,es seventeen dis
tnc varieties of the fruit in America ana bres
yaretes known by the rank and file OF h9r.ie fsn
turists They the Royal MoorparK aiu r
boin, The ROYAL IS by all odds the favorlte variety
ns'll MI II crows in almost any well-waterel soil
and strange 1t may seem to Eastern rs ace
ST 5sn # viii often produce about go pounds to the
tree The Royal originated In the SCUM IN ss 81 II has
proved the best of all adapted to the soil ana G
Of ne Pacific Coast. he 'Ivo P'
maj MAJ t ~ nardens OF the Duke OF Manchester IN
FpgIand and is best adapted to the colder ana
nSe moist climate of Northern California ~ Is
moor bearer in Southern California me shippea
of green fruits to the Eastern n arKets rnoses
Wo65rnark the best Of all for keeping, purposes;
The Bienhem apricot originated In Safopn "HS
,hn fruit runs larger than any othcr 'aiisS -.
onricots and is the favorite with Gamers lof It's
size and juiciness. , A., ,r,co, grows more |
vrmrously on the roots of other fruits tham anon on
aarricot roots Thus nurserynlan VINO siows
i Tor orchard planting plants peaches OF puti,s
wben he sets out to young apricot trees ror ,to
Nd When tho peach and plum trees are W.
ft high he will bud apricots on them ana cu hnn5
nT ali Of the stem OF the peach or pluin Si ia
OH an ,ba nont of budding. he will allow the puo
az grow into the main part Of the little tree mus
ling an apricot on n peach OF q Piui go
% nr,cor tree In California Will usuaIiy cohIe nv
full bearing six years from panti"s and care
I'd hut trees that have proper sou anu Ia
9i attention bear some fruit when tnree ha hut
lu a hnmt ffty pounds Of fruit per tree Whel pu
ar ~ea re- old iorticulurists say tha sucI rap'o
iU rouith Is not known elsewhere In the "oriu'
CAUGHT IN HER OWN TRAP.