The San Francisco call., 1896-02-10

ASAaS b oboAt,
The Rev. 81. B. Swafford has started the
Home AGvocdte at Arbuckle with encour-
aging prospects.
T. W. Middaugh and John O. Moore
have begun the publication of bright
paper named the Independent at Harring.
ton, Wash.
The California Fruit Grower (San Fran
clsco) promptly calls the California CIltiva-
tor CLOS Angeles) to account for asserting
that the olive section of California extends
no ia rther north than the Santa Ynez and
Tehachapi Mountains. The Fruit Grower
says: "The last official estimate of the
acreage of olive orchards in the State was
published by the State Board of Horticul-
ture in 1892. at that time the bearing
olive orchards in the State amounted to
2SS3 acres, of which 1889 acres were within
the territory known as Southern California,
and referred TO by the Cultiuator as being
sous. OF the Tehachapi Mountains. To
north OF that and including Central and
Northern California, there were 994 acres
OF bearing olive trees. OF the orchards not
then in bearing the southern section CON-
prised 1853 acres, and the northern section
comprised 1856 acres, or nearly 100 per cent
more. Nowhere in Southern Cali
fornia or elsewhere are better crops OF
olives produced than in number of coun-
ties, some of which are 400 miles north of
the northern limit of the 'olive belt
as defined by the Cuttiuator. All the coun.
ties round about San Francisco Bay
and throughout the interior, including all
the river counties, produce fine olives that
pay good profits. AS matter Of fact no
better crops of olives can be produced in
Los Angeles County or Santa Barbara
County than in Butte County, 500 miles
farther north"
The Ferndale Enterprise has fallen into
the procession of progress and is now fur
nishing Humboldt County with high
class semi-weekly in place of the old
weekly form.
Mrs. Helen Gregory Flesher, an accom-
plished newspaper and magazine writer of
this City, has bought Society, sparkling
monthly devoted to social matters, and
will likely soon transform it into weekly.
The Marysville appeal has sent repre-
sentative to inspect the new creamery at
Knights Landing and reports that it is one
OF the finest plants in the State. 1t adds:
'Forty-fve hundred pounds OF milk were
received the first day and converted into 275
pounds of butter. This amount will be
doubled during the next month"
One of the features of the plant is re-
frigerator capable of making ice in the
main manufacturing groom within twenty
minutes after starting the machine and of
reducing the storage-rooms twenty-five de-
grees below freezing point.
A hundred farmers in the vicinity OF San
Leandro and twenty-five at Santa Rose are
preparing to make experiments in beet
culture, with view to the establishment
of sugar refneries. The Gridley Herald
announces that the Beet Sugar Improve
ment Association of that place recently
wrote to Claus Spreckels, in order to ascer-
tain definitely what he requires to be done
before he will consider the proposition of
erecting sugar factory, and received the
following reply from E. Fl. Sheldon, Mr..
Spreckels' secretary. AS the matter is of
great Importance to many other commu-
mites, the letter is here reproduced:
In reply to your letter to Claus Spreck-
els he instructs me to state that before
considering the question of establishing
beet factory in any locality he must first
be satisfied of two things, viz:
"First-That there are 80, 600 acres of good
available beet land in the immediate vicin-
ity OF the proposed factory.
''This in order that 10000 acres may be
planted to beets each year. The land,
after raising beets, has to be planted to
other crops for two successive years in
order to recuperate.
"Second-That he must have samples of
beets grown from seed imported by US, for
testing the saccharine, from quarter-acre
patches here and there all over these 30,-
600 acres, SO as to assure him that there
will be no lack of material on which to
work.
1--WE can furnish you seed at 15 cents
per pound, the price it costs us to import
from GERMANY and the same kind we use