The herald., 1897-08-29

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were too little humus would plant crop
Of Canadian peas to plow under. Trees
Of poor quality and feeble growth should
be dug out. We can not afford to keep
such on our expensive land.
Judge Dillon found he must prune his
Lisbon lemons a good deal in this damp
region of Long Beach. Mr. Lyon said
each man must study his own locality
and his business or he would be weeded
out Of the citrus fruit business. Mr..
Goodwin said we needed to look to the
growing Of seedlings in which to bud.
Culls were taken for the seeds.
E. w. Fortune Of Alamitos spoke on
irrigation. The great need is water and
elevation. Mr.. Clewrett used artesian
water for his berries and believed we had
good source of supply in such water
Prof Cook, by request, described Mr..
Loops system of sub-irrigation, where
the water is conducted in inch iron pipes
between the rows and allowed to escape
centrally between the trees by a valve
that cuts off roots SO that they could not
stop the pipe. He also described Mr..
Funk's method of sub-earth irrigation as
given above.
Sub-irrigation was a great saving in
water and work, and kept the soil better,
but the first cost was serious objection.
Mr. Murdock of Westminster said go
slow on sub-irrigation Roots will in
terfere. They will go through a thick
cement pipe. All such projects had been
abandoned.
Prof. Wickson objected to such irriga-
ton. 1t led to less cultivation and we
must constantly stir the soil to succeed.
Mr.. Mills of the Pomona experiment
station read his paper on "Extermina-
tion of Gophers, Squirrels and Linnets."
We can never eXterminate these pests,
but we can greatly mitigate the evil.
Trapping had the advantage that it
showed the gopher laid out and done
for,' but was too uncertain to satisfy
Gophers were best poisoned by use Of
raisins poisoned by strychnine. Keep
these in a vaseline bottle, ever with one,
and whenever a gopher hole is seen
shake, without touching, few raisins
into it. Shoot the few old, wise gophers
that will not eat the poison by watching
for them at sunrise and sunset. Kill
squirrels by using poisoned melon rind
dropped into the holes. If all will do
this the work is easy and sure Of
course tnOSe OUTSIDE near the WHO bush
have the hardest work. For linnets at
tract to water and then poison the wa
ter We killed thousands in this way.
Add strychnine to the water until it
is slightly bitter to the taste, when
touched by finger to the tongue. Buy
crystals Of strychnine and pulverize.
The pulverized strychnine is likely to be
adulterated. Prof. Cook stated that in
the Antelope valley the water and
strychnine had not proved entirely a
success. They shot the linnets by hun
dreds and thousands. The birds were
also driven off by the shooting. All
turned out to shoot the bud-eaters.
Prof Cook urged the formation of a
farmers club, that Long Beach might
join the great procession in Southern
California. A committee was appointed
and will report today.
| A very large audience gathered for
the evening session. There were numer-
Gus questions in the question box. Some
| of the answers were as follows: Bisulph-
| ide of carbon was sure to kill squirrels
| if used when the ground was wet. 1t
should be bought in large quantities ir
'the original package" as it costs less.
1t was better to inject it into the stopped
holes. Cultivate once after each irriga.