The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-06-30
Agriculture
and
Horticulture.

The following items concerning farm
ing IN Pacific Coast States will prove
of general interest:
BIG LEMON YIELD.
riverside Press: EARLY predictions
tnat Dig lemon crop could be expect
eo are being fulfilled The packing
houses are crowded nearly to their ca
paclty, and large numbers of men ana
poyS are busy preparing the fruit TOT
Shipment. 1t is estimated now that the
output from Santa Barbara and Car
plnter1a will be about 800 cars for the
year ending November 1st next, and
the season is but fairly begun. Two
hundred and twenty five more carloads
WIN go forward before that date. The
quallty Is better than it ever was, the
trees being older and the fruit unln-
Jureo by wind or too much wafer Inc
large crop is accounted for largely
through the same reasons; new trees
are coming into bearing, and the rains
came just right during the past Win
ter. Under favorable conditions the
yield for the coming year Will greatly
exceed that of the present season, as
the acreage is gradually extending.
Last years shipments amounted 10
about 40 cars, and with the good
prices prevailing then, the growers en-
joyed fair profits. This season prom
1SeS still better returns; the prices now
are about the same as a year ago at
this time, and the indications are that
the market will improve.
In speaking of conditions yesterday
Manager Birss of the Johnston Fruit
Company said that there We're plenty
of lemons in sight, and the markets
are favorable. The late summer quo
tations depend largely on the extent
of the crop in Sicily. Orange ship
ments are nearly ended; the crop was
hight, but good prices prevailed.
Santa Barbara lemons stand well in
the markets, and always command the
highest quotations; this is particularly
true of the summer crop, for the eli
matte conditions in many other places
are not so favorable for lemons at this
season Of the year.
USING A PEST.
Oroville Mercury: j. H. Legget is
conducting an interesting experiment
in green manuring. A portion of the
land on the Leggett ranch was sown
to evergreen millet in 1856. 1t is still
there One of the chief characteristics
of evergreen millet is its tenacity of
life, and no doubt the millennium will
find these two acres of Leggett's still
growing luxuriantly despite all efforts
to destroy it that may be made. For
several years the ground was in grapes
and a bitter warfare was waged against
the millet. The impossibility of cult
waiting the vines after the spring
growth rendered the battle a hard one
and when the grapes were picked they
were usually hidden by a strong,
healthy growth of the pest. After bat
Ting with it for some years, Mr. Leg
gett decided to turn it to account, if
possible, and dug up the vines, replant-
ing the ground to peach trees. These
trees are twenty-four feet apart, and,
of course, admit of complete cultivation
of the ground at all seasons. The
mfllet is plowed under at regular inter-
walls, and the magnificent growth of the
trees indicate that it is a first class
article to use for green manuring,
though its general use is hardly to be
advised
MILKMAN'S PARALYSIS.
Modesto News: A Stockton doctor
tells the Mail" that he has encounter
ed a new disease which, for want of a
better name, he calls 'milkman's par
alysis." The disease affects the mus
Giles of the arm from the elbow to the
hand, and affects the right or left arm
more than the other according to
whether a man is right or left handed
OF course, milking is done with both
hands, but right handed man uncon-
sciously exerts his right hand more
than the other, and vice versa. The
disease begins with a clutching of the
hands, and finally the muscles begin
to wither and weaken. The patient
loses his grip, as it were, and while the
arm can be moved about in the usual
manner. the muscles which are brought