The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-05-10

be rlassed as n competitor. excellent though
In. II has It's own Independent market. I'll
California navel orange Is not only nnel
favored. sweet and handsome when ripe, wit
attractive size and shnge, blt u Y a wondron
when fully ripe, 10 can make the iouinc
eround the world and he bright and fires
for another month at the end. This makes
very safe fer dealers to handle. as well AS SAT
to buy by the box for small families. All tina
Ssht2rn!sns should now tGarn + ats an 9p ,
Eut opean goods run true to tue brand. Euro
peans have simply learned. horse sense.
The Eastern market %s"arcciy knew tho nave
were over 3, 800 car loads, all Of which wer,
taken like a flash, and yet they made %scarcel,
an impression on the market. Those who
once buy them rarely want any other orange,
Their popularity Is such that many have been
sent 20 Europe this wear, where they yielded
the grower $500 an acre. How many car load.
to guess. But the msrket will expand rapidly
with Increasing production and The grower OF
Those who know California best have no
fears that the market will be overloaded for
ton OF a good orange /. closely limited Gy con
dltions.. II is one OF the pcculiarities OF Call
the world It also Raises the worst. Tie reason
is the singular fact that while the state can
raise such. an immense list 9f products Il raises
Is very scarce. and, with few exceptions. very
Door. All its good, fruits are raised oy care;
HTtJ III the teltfIlOn OF the tOIlltlOnf. anu
then by constant combing and ,gr9oml ng.
There are very few places, even with plenty Of
moisture In the soil. where an orchard neg.
lected, a. most Eastern orchards are. Will
produce fruit fit for "a we'll bred Eastern pig.
Each fruit wants Us peculiar climate and soil,
the most careful irrigation. To Ignore these
principles is to lower the grade.
cr1 Ins T.. best soO qssn tSS, Are a. Viii gTI0 Sard p h 2@,.c san. N ar9 or
OF wheat without rain every week. and then 1t
would he very light. It would be madness 70
Equally good are the boulder washes and slides
where IL Is impossible to take out a cubic yard
e. s2n,dsrs and tePSeE them ,n IN the re same 56 , shaG r.
Warmth and perfect drataage seem the fac
tori. Many orchards that now look so fine, on
the surface cost from nifty to a hundred dol
lars an acre to smooth of.
The average size OF the orchards Is ten acres.
with many of twenty and few oyer forty, al;
one 81 :, 200. The yield OF the whole state
for this year OF oranges Of al kinds is Gas
car loads, , averaging nS;n about 500 a "a, Gsr Il, 10 the
and packers. 1t Is altogether probable that
this yield will he doubled in The next five
of. choice ~navels. which the market will readily
take at good figures. The business will he
done by many hands, with profit in many
pockets, but owing to the limitations 1t IL
not, likely that the second ten thousand car
loads will be reached under fifteen years. In
It iho is n not i iikely, 'f for The ~ lower Fg' grades ie;U viii b be
worth less and less. while the lazy and incom-
Detent growers VINO never can learn anything
and have to drop out Of the race will BIO in
about as great proportion as ever.
Even twenty years ago it was ,laimed that
grown in the Sacramento Valley AS far north
as Oroyille: Then II. vas asserted that all
the great San Joaquin Valley. there wa. a
be grown. In all these places trees had long
and had borne good fruit.
Although this was doubted by many in the
vas no t reason W why there should not bo warm
belts along the hills in the north in those
;es where the winters are only slightly
much warmer in the north that the south gets
It's first apricots from there three weeks be-
he great interior valleys, Is much warmer
han that Of the south, which Is nearer the
and cooled by the srea, Arctic current
and il the tree could survive the win:
became cold enough to make it sour. and It
would be marketed before the nights became
enough to freeze the fruit by temperature
lot low enough to injure the tre".
1t IS now certain that there are largo areas
'long a strip of the foothills OF the eierras sew
hundred miles long that will produce as
rood. oranges as any part Of the south. Even
Z they should freeze occasionally it would
sure i beaTeT q' when pio a ; E i9s tr SFaed' in rs c cSfn
ornia that one could afford TO lose an occa-
ional crop. The only objection is the iniur5
" II NOuhIiJ " Inn hCtliik hLlC lloECl u
Whether the orange Of the north Is as good
keeper as that Of the south Is not yet fully
my ry't market PHe 'of It Fq is some e two MON iSs earlier
that OF the .outh. so that there is really
title competition between the two regions.
outh, will be mainly navels. On account OF
he uncertainty OF the frost question. the ship.
ave not yet been very large. The local mar
and that of san Francisco and the north
IN coast; take a large amount that goes out
n small y mo IL vary n lHtllt for fhA |
count only OF carload lots. Some of the orch
Ihile the many that have survived every
hing for twenty odd years indicate that we
asten shipments. The shipments East for
Is year from north of Tehachipi 8 mount to
"a carloads. while the amount con sumed on
he coast from that belt is much larger.
This " arm area no doubt covers several hum
red thousaad acres, and Is pr Ihahly larger
eserts But here again we are met by the
.uestion Of water. which in many places is
AIKEN out for lower country and in Others il
r far from it, on account Of the small
rea Of the warm, belt. The same conditions
afe to say that although the northern belt
Ill add many thousands OF car loads annually
? the product of the south, neither combined
i'll. be likely ever to drug the market with
Twenty years ago the best California orange
40 dlEhuu. l. u tllOuRuI kOpu tUOuVl lOT
francisco to eat in the absence OF any
hing better. There is probably no other coun-
~ where such a change could have been
rought about In so short "A time. II required
ersons of wealth with the time and the in
to experiment even at a steady loss.
California had thousands OF such
ersons who went there because of the climate
nd were Independent of the sell. Hundreds
thousands OF dollars were thus spent in ex-
erlmenting, and in ten years it was proved
nat every mode and manner ~ planting. cul.
waiting, and handling was from first to last
ist exactly wrong.
Some. Of the changes. like those OF moving
he trees from the low rich soils that would
.ise fine corn to the loose coarse washes that
ould hardly raise grain, have been men
oned. Others are too numerous to mention.
ut irrigation and cultivation are the chief
lings from which the East can learn the best
'ssons. 1t is certain that the East Is approach
lg an era OF irriGatIon;, Experiments like
lose last year at the Illinois Eastern Hos
ital at kankakee, where $4,000 worth OF
egetables that they would otherwise have had
buy, as they did two years before on ac-
punt OF the drought, were grown on two hun
red acres with the aid OF the pumping plant
the Institution. under the direction Of ono
AN from California, have in the unst three
ears been so numerous and the results 80 sim.
ar that in thousands Of places in the East ir-
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