The herald., 1897-09-02
Notes

chased by the public and carefully tended
at public expense. The Herald suggests
their removal to some public park which
could probably be done with safety.
| These trees were imported from Brazil
by the United States government some
thirty years ago, and were mostly sent
to Florida, but two trees coming to this
section. These have been called Wash
ington navels, simply because the two
| trees were sent here from Washington.
The trees sent to Florida have never been
heard from since, which led to the belief
that the Florida climate was not suited
to them.
The following from a fruit grower, a
correspondent Of the Times, is certainly
suggestive: 1.-The orchardists of this
county have no confidence in the present t
board OF horticultural commissioners and
believe that the board Of supervisors
made a political dumping ground out of
the horticultural commissioners office
| in order to get their relatives in office,
so it is of little use asking the supervisors
| to act in the matter. Just fancy ward
politician, a nurseryman and a sheep
herder as a board Of horticultural COM
missioners."
The alarmed fruit grower sees danger
in the large importation from the east
Of nursery stock and favors public action
to secure a quarantine officer, even
| though at private expense.
The Pomona Times comments upon the
fact that the cannery of that place is
paying SIS ton for peaches that meas
ure 21s inches and only $40 for those that
measure but 2A. The Times editor re-
CARDS that as a great difference, but Mr.
Waters, the manager Of the cannery,
says that there is that difference in the
value Of the fruit in the market. The
Times editor is quite right in urging hat
the poor varieties be replaced by better
| ones, and that such care and manage
ment be adopted as will secure the high
grade fruit. "The preferred varieties for
| canning are Orange Cling, which ranks
as the largest and finest, the Golden
Cling and the Lemon Cling. The Lemon
Ceiling, though smaller than the others,
| is highly priced by the Gamers. The
White Cling is also in demand. The Fos-
ter and Muir are the free-stones that are
in the lead in the Pomona cannery this
season.
The dried fruit product in Southern
California this season will be large. The
Pacific Rural Press believes the prune
crop will equal $4,000, 900 or $4,000, 900
pounds and will equal that of last year
| in the state. The apricot crop will be
very large. Competent JUDGES think the
outlook for dried fruit Is the best it has
been for. years. Despite the dropping Of
oranges in some sections the prospect
for a heavy crop of excellent fruit is ex-
Gee Gingly good, while there is good rea-
son to hope for the best prices secured for
years.
The dissatisfaction felt by many in the
make up of the county board of horticul-
tural commissioners voiced itself few
days since sin petition from several
nursery men and fruit growers asking
| that one of the commissioners, E. H.
Rust Of Pasadena, be removed. The
ground Of complaint is that he uses his
office to his own benefit as against other
| nurserymen. The board of supervisors
promised to take the matter UNDER ad-
visement. If politics or aught else but
genuine fitness has to do in the appoint
ment of commissioners then there is
good reason for loud and general pro-
test.
The division of pomology Of, the de-
partment of agriculture has issued val
liable pamphlet on fig culture, written
| by the ablest authority, Gustav Eisen.
The fact that the Smyrna fig Is a pis-
tillate variety and requires pollination
! is stated. The pollen comes from the
| flowers of the wild Capri figs. The
| branches of flowers Of the latter are
hung in the Smyrna trees when the
| flowers of the latter are in condition to
be pollinated. A minute wasp, species
of Blastophaga, is the agent Of the cap
rification, as the bearing Of the pollen
| from the Capri figs to the Smyrna is
termed. The little wasps are said to
| breed in the Capri figs in exceeding num-
bers. Attempts have beer made, but
as yet without success, to secure capri
fication in the United States. The
Smyrna fig, the Capri fig, and the wasp
have all been brought here. In all such
experiments the conditions for success
are complicated and great patience is
required. There would seem to be no
| insuperable obstacles in the way. That
American ingenuity will yet succeed in
caprification and in introducing mora
valuable insect friends, there can hardly
be a doubt.
|
nizes the value of good roads. Pomona
spent $4,000 last year and has just voted
to expend $4,000 next year 1t is planned
to continue the improvement already
begun on San Antonio avenue. to Clare
mont, and to improve in like manner
the streets to Chino, Lordsburg and
Spadra 1t is doubtful If any one thing
will do more to push town into prom
inence and success than to make its
leading roads first class.
John Gould, the able and successful
dairyman of Ohio, says in the New York
Tribune that more silos are being bull.
this year than ever before. He says that
now most are built with horizontal
studding, the sheeting being nailed o,
upright. He says that drilling the corr
is becoming more and more popular
Narrowing the corn with fine tooth
harrow before it is up, and two or three
times afterward, even until it is six
inches high, to kill the weeds. is becom-
Ing very general. AS yet there is no har.
vester that is a success. Harvesting by
hand is cheapest and best. In distribut.
ing the silage from the top of the car.
rier it is made to strike on a platform
so as to throw it to the outside Of the
silo and to roll to the center. 1t is thu.
made to pack better. He says that more
and mora ha norm is rerDitesed IN he