The record-union., 1899-05-18
Agriculture
and
Horticulture

MI U1So Iva AAN>s
There are not two more important
interests on the Pacific Coast than
agriculture and horticulture. All who
are interested in these great fields OF
human activity will be pleased to read
news OF what is going on in the grow
ing belt:
BIGGS CANNERY.
Biggs Notes: The editor of the
Notes visited the cannery this week
and was shown through that institu-
ton by the genial foreman, Fred Bren-
naA. The cannery is one of the best
equipped canneries in the State, ana
under the management of Mr.. Nelson
and Foreman Brennan it cannot but
help be under the very best of man
ayers. The cannery has been fitted UP
in fine shape, thus giving plenty OF
room in which to work. Several hun
dred more people are being accom-
modated this year over all other sea-
sons. 1t is nice, cool place to WORK
during the warmest days, the large,
cool fans being in constant motion.
STOCKMEN MUST SUFFER
Calaveras Prospect: It now seems to
be an assured fact that the Govern
ment intends this seasons to enforce the
order prohibiting the grazing of stock
on the reservation which takes In a
portion of this and Alpine Counties,
despite the many appeals and remon-
strances that have been sent to the
authorities at Washington. These rules
and regulations were enacted June 80
1897, and reissued August B, 1898, but
oil ION wa
temporarily made permitting stock to
Craze on that territory. Now, how
ever, a strict compliance with the rules
and regulations of the Interior De-
partment will be enforced, and SOL
diers and rangers will no doubt be
stationed at different points to inter
: Gept or arrest all those violating the
order. The penalty upon conviction in
such a case is a fine of not more than
$500 for each offense, or Imprisonment
for not more than twelve months, or
both, at the discretion of the court.
1t is said that flocks will not even be
permitted to be driven across the res
ervation at its narrowest point. AS
some dubt existed as to whether the
regulations would be enforced this sea-
son, we wrote to Senator Perkins last
the following reply:
Referring to your inquiry as to
whether the Government intends to en-
force the regulation of prohibiting the
grazing of stock upon Government for
est reservations, would say that some
days since I received a letter from the
Commissioner of the Land Office, in
which he said there was an apparent
universal desire from the people of the
valley to prohibit the grazing of stock
in the forest reservation for the rea-
son that they destroy the new brush
and the growth of the young trees,
and the fires destroy the range, thereby
denuding the hills of trees and foliage
which causes the sun to melt the snow
early in the season, thus depriving the
farmers of the valley of water for
irrigating and other purposes. Under
these circumstances no stock will be
permitted to Craze upon the reserva-
ton the coming season.
This is an unjust and pernicious law;
one that will accomplish absolutely
nothing good, while it will work an
irreparable injury to many. Any one
who has ever been high up in the
Sierras, In that portion set aside as a
reservation, knows that it is simply
enonsensical to contend that stock of
any kind destroy the underbrush to
the extent that it is claimed, and as
for the fires doing any damage, that
< is absolutely. without foundation in
fact. In this county from Big. Meadows
or Bear Valley to the summit, such a
thing as a running forest fire is I'M
known, for the simple reason that the
grass. from the time that the snow
disappears till the time the stock is
driven down from the mountains, is all
more or less green. Besides the grass
up there is different from that in the
lower country, as it grows in small
punches here and there, and even if 1t
We're dry a fire would die out before
it had burned many yards.
The result of this law will be that
many poor stockman will be forced
to the wall; those who transacted bust
ness with them annually in the mount
aims, through the collection of tolls OF
the selling of supplies, will have to
close their doors, while hotel men all
along the line of travel through that
district will be obliged to do likewise
And all this to satisfy an unwarranted
law, based upon vague theory and
groundless presumption.
BUILDING A SILO.
Chico Record: Daniel Streeter of Biggs
is building forty-ton silo. The struc-
ture is circular with diameter OF
twelve feet and the foundation is of
brick, while the sides will be of red
wood slaves tongued and grooved, says
the Gridley Herald" The ensilage
will be Egyptian corn. Wells for irrigat-
ing corn and other crops have been
sunk on the place, and they are now