The herald., 1896-10-17
GROWING EVERYTHING.

(AddEsss Al communicetions Of an agri-
Soiturs! nature % p the Agric9Hlturai H Edi-
GROWING EVERYTHING.
There is no subject of such vital i'm
Dortance from an economic standpoint,
that concerns the agriculturist and hor-
ticulturist SO much as the growing of
overything that the family needs as far
a. is practical.
Every family in this civilized country
needs -four, meats. lard. milk. butter,
eggs. vegetables, berries, and other
kinds of fruits, if they want to enjoy
good living. is. 49,.
The horticulturist whose ranch is
nearly or wholly occupied in fruit rails
ing will not find it practical to raise
grain or stock to get flour, meat and
lard from, but with plenty of water to
irrigate he can grow all his vegetables
berries and other kinds of fruits for fam
fly use, and enough feed, such as beets,
corn, alfalfa and some grain for hay to
support his chickens, cow and team.
While the agriculturst whose ranch is
occupied in raising grain and stock can
get his own -four, meat and lard. and
grow everything the Ilorticulturist does
for the family.
AS it is the object of this convention
to impart practical information l will
give my experience as to what and how
we STOW CnlDSS IOf LHe IGIllly OH the
Tairview ranch in Finn valley.
We keep COW for milk and butter;
chickens for eggs and to eat: a family
orchard with all the varieties of fruits
generally raised, such as apples, peaches,
pears. plums, ounces, cherries, apricots.
nectarires, mulberries, grapes. figs. OIL
ives, oranges, lemons, persimmons, wal
nuts, pecans, almonds, and pomegran-
ates A berry patch of Gregg's black and
Turner's red raspberries, ,CrandalIs ear
ly and evergreen blackberries, Lucre-
tia dewberry. Loganberry. strawberries,
guavas and Arizona everbeGring straw
berries. In the garden we raise the fol-
lowing from the seed as per vegetable
list for each month in the year. viz:
January, after the goth, turnips car
rots, lettuce, cabbage and peas.
February, radishes- beets, satisfy,
spinach, onions seeds or sets.
March, potatoes in field, turnips, car
~rots. lettuce, parsley, peas, and cabbage
plants.
April, cucumbers, watermelons, musk
melons, squasheS, tomato plants, rad
dishes, beets, cabbage, satisfy, corn,
beams, and sweet potato plants.
July, carrots, lettuce, and cabbage
August potatoes in field, corn, bea az,
ard radishas. s
September, cabbage plants peas, tur-
nips. satisfy and carrots.
October, beets, beans, onion sets, let
tuce.
December, winter radishes, peas and
lettuce.
We do not raise any celery rhubarb,
asparagus and parsnips, for the reason
that they get too stringy and not fit to
eat They can be raised, but for the
little good you get from them it does not
pay to raise them in our soil and eli
mate. Between May and October let
tuce and turnps get strong and bitter
to the taste. Lettuce, though. does
quite well from May to October if plant
ed with another vegetable. such as
beans, which will shade it from the SUM-
and keep it from whiting. We plant
our vegetable seeds in rows, the rows
being 18 inches apart.
We cultivate our family orchard ev-
cry fifteen days and IL very warm every
ten days, and irrigate the citrus trees
three times. and olive trees twice, in
basins. The small Fruits and garden
are irrigated every ten days in trenches
and cultivated weekly. while In hot
weather the garden is irrigated weekly
and cultivated twice a week. If the
rainy season is favorable we do not
need to irrigate for from five to seven
months. So those who have not the
water can raise vegetables as per list
from November to May by thorough
cultivation. If we have no rain for
few weeks. cultivating twice week
Is better and pays. A person must adapt
himself to the weather and to the loca-
tfon where he lives in the growing of
vegetables. Our garden. which is so
feet square. supplies enough vegetables
Tor large family, and requires less than
half days attention during week
II all those engaged in agriculture and
horticulture would have a COW for milk
and butter, raise their own chickens.
vegetables. small fruits and other kinds
Of fruits for family use on the ranch,
6nN ffrh How
= would save at least what it would cost
I. otherwise to buy them
Ranchers as rule have not the money
to spare these hard times to buy the
things mentioned. and If not raised they
have to do without them In this age
OF advancement and civiliza ton brains
must be used as well as muscle to make
. o. success In raising the things for the
' family. as well as in any other kind of
business. Laziness. Indifference, want
OF energy and progress will not help the
man to grow these things. The grower
must do his part and nature will do
the rests. C. Dondore in Southern
California Farmer.
-BACTERIosIs OF wALNUTs.
The following letter was written by
Prof. Pierce to the California Fruit
Grower: f
Your favor of September 18th. request
sng facts respecting the new walnut dis
ease, game uuIy TO nand.
The disease to which you refer / shall
term bacteriosis Of sVe1nuts This name
is now for the first time given it. and has
only recently becon1e applica bic through
INVESTIGATIONS rela tive to the etiology
OF the diseas escofl6 Quoted at this labora-
tory. This work has been personally
conducted for UPWARDS of a year. ard
has resulted IN a thoreugh demonstra-
tion Of tie Bacterial nature of the dis
ease. ne bacillus causing the disease
has beefE fsolatedsin pure culture and
hundredS of. successful infections in
duced iby various forms of inoculations.
The lite history Of the bacillus has been
worked put, IFS growth on various media
carefulW studied, and all the Koch rules
Of such inyestigatfen carefully complied
with. The details or the work. as we'll
asl the .sciehtificfde and naming
Of the Organism are reserved for publi-
cationsth a special bulletin to be prepar.
ed at tGis laboratory for issue by the de-
partment. SiBacteriosis of walnuts is a
bacterial disease Of the nut. branch. and
leAf harts of the Persian walnut jug
lang sregiA.) Ejaculation experiments
have demonstrated that other forms of
$ugIanb may be also artincially infected