The sun., 1896-06-21

Company. had constructed at his famous
eighty-ncre orange grove near Riverside. Cal, +,
for fighting frost, but its cost is very heavy,
and man will think long time about having
Knows that as Il is an IN absolute T annhilaton Of
frost In any degree. Mr.. Everest had common
inch gas pipes laid about one foot in the soil.
several covered reservoirs like huge hogsheads.
RSsrched on trestles come twenty feet In the air:
trees he had set up iron pipes, ten feet high.
and on top of these were nxcd daring oil burn;
eeadS Of hea%y scot The w"re
Allied with crude petroleum, which is very cheap
in southern California by reason OF newly dis
through the system OF pipes to the biz burners,
Mr.. Everest also equipped his beautiful homo
mometers. 50 fixed that when the mercury
went down TO "a or so degrees above zero. lit.
s bells fnS ad the ~ Tsd mould
each oil burner. A half dozen men could
quickly turn on the flow OF oil at the several
burner 10 burner until the whole grove was IL
luminated by the uncanny smoky flames. Thi,
timer, but since the grove had hard nip from
JACK Frost last year. notwithstanding the ex-
him Mr. Everests plan has NO, been iof in fanor
Another wealthy orange grower OF scientific
bent, David +. Pease. formerly of the Balt-
more and Ohio Railroad Company, has been
busy TOR two years experimenting with an
apparatus he has, devised for creating an ar
than all else TO forever bar frost from his
large grove near Santa Anita. in Los An
Eeles county. He has laid pipes throug' out
Mr.. Everest did at Riverside. bat he will uss
water instead OF oil. u. and has n spray device at
the the top OF Zach stand pipe so that water tiow-
Ing there by gravity will be transformed into
spray so hnc AS To make a mist similar to a
f;s ffos. The a., important part OF the system
ana hns NJ, th's s na,t OF the -pr9ducing system
a. tr9st ,nu can came t1 many orange groves planted
MIA, and ruined some half million dollars
worth OF fine fruit in Riverside county, the
Pease anti; frost scheme worked fairly well.
but not well enough TO make other grow ers
want to adopt the idea, which Is certainly
costly for grove OF ten or more acres.
California has been giving much attention
lately 70 n unique idea for fighting frost in
the orchards. a young ran ,hman in Santa
plan, for producing. economically aud easily.
wind currents. Frost always comes on calm
clear nights, when there is not breath OF
phere. II q breeze springs mp in a cold night
the growers rejoice. Now, this young ranch
man mar. proposes s that hreeles among t,e orange
some chemical, which, when fired. will lib.
Sra@sht SEais gases so ;n "Sundantly as to make
composition OF the bricks may be he is not
chemist enough TO say. but his crude idea is
SO so good that score Of scientists thrcughout
Horu:ultural Commissioners say there is no
doubt that II wind currents can I've generated
lor several hours, when Jack Frost hoyers
near grove, the temperature may be raised
three or four degrees by the mixing of the air
strata. % Thats enough TO save acrop..
Inc held for invention along the line OF fight
ing frost in tho semi-tropic land is an Inviting
one,and he who gives the growers q sure cheap
ana convenient means Of saving the crops
year after year will he the most popular man
IN California and soon have u royal fortune