The herald., 1897-08-26
Notes

The olive crop about Claremont and
Pomona is exceptionally promising this
season. Owing to prompt action, the
olive caterpillar did very little damage.
The growers are beginning to learn that
care and vigilance are as necessary in
producing olives as in raising citrus
fruits. The black scale does not taint
the olive as spicuously as it does the
orange, but trees infested will yield no
profit. The trees may endure drouth,
with no irrigation and still live; yet the
fruit will not put in an appearance. The
trees may be beautiful in grace and color
of foliage, though strangers to the prun-
ing knife; yet pruning and fruitfulness
are necessary companions. There is
much to indicate that the olive will take
most honorable place in giving Califor-
mia reputation as among the first of
our fruit producing states. 1t goes with
out saying that California olives are of
the very highest excellence and that the
olive, as one of the most nutritive of our
fruits, must find a boundless market, as
its real value becomes generally known.
The day has gone by when culls of
any kind of fruit will do for canning.
Competition demands the best, or no
market. The late ]. Fl. Flickinger has
this to say in California, the Land Of
Promise" souvenir issued by the San
Francisco board of trade: "All orchards
to bear extra fancy fruit for canning
purposes should be irrigated or even
flooded during the months of December,
January and February, but not later
than March. 1t is not safe rule to put
less than twenty inches of water for
fruit of this class" Mr.. F. values the
Moorpark and Hemskirk as the best
apricots for canning. OF peaches ne
says: THE first. as regards canning
qualities, is the Crawford Ga freestone);
the lemon cling is also, par excellence,
the canning peach of California" The
Bartlett pear is regarded as the only
pear that produces an extra fine quality
of canned goods. while the egg plum,
properly canned and processed, makes
the most delicious product of the Cali
fornia orchard"
'All fruit, to make extra superior ta-
BILE fruit, must be picked full favored
as it would be eaten out of hand. IL
must not be transported too far and
must be processed Immediately to re-
tain it's flavor and aroma Canneries
should be so near the orchards that the
fruit can be picked, delivered and pro-
cessed the same day.
The supervisors of Sacramento county
have reduced the valuation of his real
estate 25 and of his orchard property 40
per cent, upon the request of Mr.. r. D.
Stephens, a large orchardist of that
county. Mr.. Stephens showed how that
three cars of his fruit shipped by the
Earl Fruit company brought in loss, Of
1892, 1870 and $4I3.7S respectively; three
shipped by Porter Bros. gave a loss of
1871, $227.79 and 1886 respectively; and
three shipped by Stephens and Hum
phrys a loss of $52.15, 1921 80 and 1891 80
respectively. This shows what our fruit
growers would be doing without the ex-
change, and how all classes are vitally
affected by the success of this Coop
erative association.
1t is a fact that beekeepers in South
ern California keep as many as 500 or
1000 colonies of bees in a single apiary.
and yet secure from 100 to 200 pounds Of
extracted honey per colony. Mr. B. S.
Taylor of Perris, Riverside county, re-
ports to us a crop of ten tons of first
quality of extracted honey and three
tons of finest comb honey, all from 154
colonies of bees, which increased to 1856.
A report comes to US of one beekeeper
at Escondido, San Diego county, who
has produced six car loads of honey.
Surely California leads the world.
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