The San Francisco call., 1896-10-19


Messrs. Anson Wilson and Charles Cissna
have assumed the management OF the Vancou-
yer (Wash.) Register, a paper that was long sue
cessfully conducted by Thurston Dan iels. The
only trouble With the Register is that it has
strayed from the path of sound and reasonable
politics and become welded to the false doc
trines of Populsm.
The Tulare Register suggests that if Califor-
MIA needs more feIe days there Is opportunity
TO Introduce q fruit festival, after the manner
OF the Eastern corn carnival. These are great
occasions when whole communities get To-
gether for good time. 1t is q revival OF the
ancient harvest home.
The enterprisng town of Biggs has ample
reason to be joyful over the success OF its new
cannery. The flowing lines from the Biggs
Argus contain q lesson that may be OF profit to
other towns which, unlike Biggs, have not as
yet taken advantage of the same opportunities
to secure as many benefits as possible from
their resources: 'The Biggs cannery is still
running alternate days, packing tomatoes, ana
Will not shut down until about the first OF
next week. Ninety-nine employees are still on
the payroll and this mum Der Will continue un.
til the closing day.
'The cannery has shipped about $4,000
cases, containing about 27O, 900 cans of fruit,
markets, and there remain in the warerooms
approx imately about 20 600 cases OF fruit and
tomatoes, which will be shipped as rapidly as
possible.
Taking all the circumstances into consid-
Grafton the Biggs cannery has done remark
ably well for the first seasons run. 1t has
packed more than the contract. promised, and
hundreds OF people have been furnished en-
ployment at fair wages who otherwise would
hoxyA - rin
and necessaries had it not been for the estab-
lishment of this cannery."
A mile or so east of Grldley there is an ex-
pertinent being made which, if successful,
viii be of great and las ting benefit to farmers
in California and especially in this section OF
the State. This is the production of hemp.
The following particulars, as given by the
Chico Chronicle Record, are full OF interest to
our agriculturists:
"An Eastern capitalist leased q tract OF
about 200 acres of bottom land along
Feather River, and last winter planted the
ground to hemp. The crop is now being cut,
and the growth of the product is something re-
m markable when compared with that produced
in the Eastern States. That planted near
Gridley has attained an enormous height,
great deal OF 1t being about sixteen feet tall.
This is great success when one considers
that the first three feet of the hempstalk will
pay the expense OF sowing, cutting, crushing
and preparing the fiber for the marker. The
hemp, after it has reached the proper stage
for cutting, is moved down with an ordinary
mower.
at is then allowed to lie on the ground and
go through what is called rotting. After re-
qulred length of time has elapsed the hemp
stalks are shocked up in similar manner to
corn. 1t is then hauled to the crushing mill
tuh fhn cfaIl Iatrv f,y< hoo
cog cylinders. This breaks up the wood in
the stalks which is afterward easily separated
from the fiber. This fiber when properly pre-
pared commands market price of between
and cents per pound, and the cost of ship
ping Is nominal compared with the selling
value. If this experiment proves successful,
and all indications are very fattering that it
will, we will undoubtedly see, in the course
OF the next few years, hemp fields scattered all
along our river bottoms"
The Hollister Bee has replaced the West Coast
Alliance in San Benito County's capi tai. Harry
Johnson the editor of the Bee, has had wide
experience in the newspaper field. The paper
is got up in good style, and is both bright
and newsy.
The Lodi Repteto- Budget contains several
very interesting items regarding wonderful
vegetable growths in the vicinity OF Lodi. For
instance, w. L. McDaniels raised big crop of
potatoes small piece of land this year.
On July 10 the potatoes and vines had all
been cleared away ana OH the same ground
was planted lot of marrow squash seed The
paper says: "The crop is sight. The ground
is nearly covered with monster sauashes, and
some of them would take prizes at any agri-
cultural fair There Is one which weighs
more than 160 pounds, and 125-pound speci-
mems are plenty. On less than half an acre
of land Mr.. McDaniels will harvest from six to
eight tons of squashes. A Stockton produce
dealer has offered Mr.. McDaniels 81 SO for
squash weighing $50 pounds or over, and will
take his entire crop at So ton. Not less than
$50 will be realized from the second crop
on this half-acre of land. Corn planted on the
10Th of July is already ripe, or nearly so, being
too hard for table use."
Here Is Lodi grape story: SD. Mccoy, who
lives five miles south, on the Cherokee Lane,
has two acres OF black Ferrara grapes which
are turning out wonderfully well. The shoots
were about foot long when the frost came,
April 18, and killed every one. They came
out again, however, and bore an immense
quantity OF fruit. not less than seventeen tons
to the acre.
"The cost to Mr.. Mccoy Is not over So per
ton when the grapes are delivered in market,
and as he receives 2 cents a pound for them,
or $40 g ton, his net profit is $35 ton or $595
all acre. Two punches brought into this office
as samples weighed seven pounds EACH"
And the Re ietU Budget, as If not contented 10
rest with the showing already made, astounds
us with bean story, for the truth OF which it
vouches:
IF. A. Jordan of New Hope planted this sum-
mer four pounds of black-eyed BEANS and from
that planting has gathered and cleaned up
eight sacks of beans of eighty-hve pounds each,
q total of $50 pounds of beans from each pound
of seed.''
The Plumas Independent, IN announcing its
entry upon its Fl lth year of existence, remarks
that "there is nothing strange about this, the
only particular public interest which attaches
to the event being that the doctors who an
nounced it a sickly child with only the brief
span of six months of lie before 1t, have
proved incorrect in their diagnosis, the puny
child having reached the age when 1t can be
enrolled on the school census, in vigorous
health"
THE IMPOSSIBLE.
The molehil mountain,
oh. never can Ue;
And Of bright raindrop
You can't make q sea.