The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-01
Crops IN CALIFORNIA.
caiitIes, but The Yield WH
Be Far.

VISALIA, CAL. April 30.-Peaches
promise heavy crop, except in a few
scattering places, where late frosts affected
them. number of orchardists are
thinning their peaches already. They
will probably have the largest crop ever
gathered here. Apricots were pretty well
thinned out by the frosts. There will be
a light crop. Prunes were not injured by
the late frosts. An extremely heavy crop
is now in prospect. They are not dropping
in this locality as much as the orchardists
would like to see. except from the younger
trees. Pears promise a heavy crop also.
They were unin jured by frost. There are
probably not fifty cherry trees in this dis
trict, and that crop is not considered here.
The Valley road will have hundreds of
carloads of fruit to handle this season.
WILLOWS, CAL, April 30-As far as
can he ascertained, the cherry crops good,
but there are but few trees in each orchard
in the county. The outlook for peaches is
better than for several years past. The
prune cropis much larger than that of
last year. The wind caused a few to drop
about ten days ago The prospects for:
apricots is from fair to good. There Will
be a heavy yield of pears, Judging from
present indications. The dropping time
for pears has not yet arrived. On the
whole, the fruit crop of Glenn County is
quite promising.
SAN JOSE. CAL, April 3O-It is too
early vet to form an accurate estimate of
the fruit crop, but all indications point TO
a bounteous Weld of all kinds OF fruit in
Santa Clara Valley this season. But little
fruit has dropped, and no serious damage
will result in this respect Cherries set
we'll; there has been no drop, and the
crop will be a big one. There will be q
t@1l pf
blight on prunes, bur it is now too early
to tell whether there will be any damage.
The trees were covered with blossoms,
and IL the buds set we'll there will be an
immense crop. AprIcots were not in
jured to any extent by the frost, and
promise 10 be very GOOD. Pears will be
more than an average crop.
Los GA1OS, CAL, April 3O.-Some
growers com plain of cherries being light.
but, on the whole, prospects are fine for
good crops. They are not dropping m UGH.
The peach crop is light. OF aprico there
will be good crop of Moorparks, but
Blenheims and Royals light The pear
trees will yield full crop. Prunes will
be light-less t. an the usual crop They
are dropping badly because of the warm
weather when they were in blossom
nearly every season, but the crop of
prunes often proves TO be fair one.
SONOMA, CAL, April 30-The fruit
crop OF the Sonoma Valley was badly
damaged by the north wind which pre-
vailed last Saturday. Prunes suffered
most and are dropping off so fast as to
threaten the entire crop. Pears, which a
week ago gave promise of an immense
yield, are also dropping, but to no great
extent. There will be fair crop of
peaches and apricots. Apples and cher
ries give promise of an immense yield.
SANTA ROSA, CAL, April 30 The
past few weeks have in measure de-
stroyed all hopes of phenomenal fruit
yield in this section. Growers and dryers
Of fruit who were sanguine of big cops a
month ago now appear dubious, but will
not admit total or even a half failure
An early frost nipped the opening buds
and caused some dropping, especially
mong prunes. Then came three days of
hot norther, scorching many Of the
tender buds and whitening the ground
with blossoms In exposed orchards. The
lack of rain--which, by the way, is very
unusual in this county at this eeason-is
being felt severely. A light warm rain
within the next lew days would be worth
thousands of dollars. summary on the
fruit crop CLEANED from well-informed
orchardists shows that the peach crop is
light; prunes ARE dropping badly; pears
are tair crop; cherries unaffected by
frost or wind, and wonderful crop is