The record-union., 1897-06-09

VIII soon follow; the yield is fair one;
all irrigated summer crops are look
ing well; fruit is being shipped in car
load lots; highest and lowest tempera-
lures 50 degrees and SO degrees.
YOLO.
Woodland-The prevailing north
winds are damaging the wheat and
barley prospects,; Muscatel grapes did
not set well, still the crop will be bet
ter one and a larger one than we have
had for years.
Dunnigan-The grape crop still gives
promise of being the largest in years;
the high winds have stopped some of
the farmers from harvesting; if the
fruit crop is not abnormally large there
will at least be plenty
Winters-Fruit is ripening very rap
idly and it keeps the orchardists quite
busy picking and shipping it.
SOLANO.
Binghamton-Summe fallow barley
is being harvested and it is reported to
be badly shelled by the dry northerly
winds and will not average more than
seven or eight sacks per acre.
DiXon-While the average for the
coming crop for the county will prob
ably not be up to that Of ordinary
years, there is no doubt that the imme-
date vicinity of this town and known
generally as the Dixon ridge" never
had a better prospect.
Suisun-Cherries are about all picked,
and the apricot crop throughout this
valley is a light one.
LAKE.
Upper Lake-The weather during the
week has been rather beneficial to
grain; haying is well advanced with
rather poor crops; some early grain is
ready for the header; vines continue to
look very well and barring pests and
diseases will yield the largest crop in
years; corn is not doing as well as
usual; highest and lowest tempera-
lures SO degrees and 40 degrees.
Middletown-Haying is progressing
rapidly and crop light; there will not
be more than half as much hay cut
this year in this section as there was
during last season.
NAPA.
Napa-Highest and lowest tempera-
lures 90 degrees and Al degrees; early
cherries poor while late ones will be
good; grapes doing well and promise a
large crop, While other fruits are do
ing as well as could be expected; corn
and potatoes are looking we'll; hay is a
short crop; grain light; sugar beets are
reported as doing we'll and hops are
growing fast; highest and lowest tenn
peratures 96 degrees and A degrees.
be up to expectations, but hay will be
plentiful but thin in places.
Calistoga-P for good grape
crop so far are excellent.
SONOMA
Sonoma-The cool weather of the
early part of the week has been fol-
lowed by a hot wave the latter part;
haying is about Finished the crop is a
light one; the warm wave is ripening
cherries fast; the output is better than
expected; apples, peaches, apricotS and
grapes are doing well; the grape crop
from present prospects will be the best
for many years; Bartlett pears are the
poorest crop in this section ever before
known; highest and lowest tempera-
lures So degrees and Al degrees.
Bloomfield-Crops are looking very
well; potato planting has just been fin
ished; haying just begun and our fruit
crop is doing we'll.
Healdsburg-Weathe continues hot
and dry; the canneries are busily en-
gagged in canning cherries; all kinds of
fruit is looking well; highest and low
est temperatures 50 degrees and 80 de-
grees; hay balers at work; the crop
of hay in this vicinity is a light one
but is of good quality.
CONTRA COSTA.
Danville-Orchardist just getting in
to the rush of picking cherries, of which
very satisfactory crop will be real
lied; other varieties of fruit trees are
not as heavily loaded as we have pre-
viously seen them; there will still be a
fair yield and several orchards have
had to be thinned of their peaches to
secure fair sizes.
Martinez-Some of the grain and hay
in this section will yield big crops of
good quality.
ALAMEDA.
San Leandro-Cherry picking is pro-
crossing and some have finished pick
ing their crop. Potatoes are improving
with the damp nights but corn needs
rain; tomatoes are looking all right so
far.
Observation-Disclosures for the past
week quite warm; there is a greater
acreage of grain than last year, but the
yield will not be as great as last year;
hay all stacked or baled, but the crop
is a smaller one than usual; grape pros
poets better than for ten years past; al
monds, plums and apricots good.
SANTA CLARA.
Santa Clara-The cherry crop has
proved pleasant disappointment to
the owners of most of the orchards;
continuing conflicting reports regarding
the prune crop are heard, some are to
the effect that the crop will be q very
short one, others reports it to range
from fair to good; the hot weather is
ripening fruit rapidly, which keeps the
canneries very busy to keep up with
the procession.
SAN BENITO.
Hollster-The barley crop will be a
fair one but the last few days of hot
winds here has materially injured the
wheat crop and the outlook is not so
good and the crop now will be a small
one: a large acreage of sugar beets has
Deen painted, out II is yet TOO early TO
know much about the prospect: highest
and lowest temperatures 80 degrees and
II degrees.
SAN JOAQUIN.
Lodi-The hot days have fastened the
ripening of grain and the late wheat is
liable 10 be pinched; haying completed
and the crop is a light one, but quality
good; fruit and berries are doing we'll;
grapes are setting well and promise to
be a large crop; melons and all sum-