The record-union., 1899-05-28
Agriculture
and
Horticulture.

ers:
| SELLING BY WEIGHT.
| Tompoc Record: There would be no
obiection to this method if the buyers
would act fairly with the producer and
| take all merchantable fruit. But we
have never yet seen buyer that would
or did act with perfect fairness If there
was the least inducement such as shy
market, to slaughter fruit Then we
have known the same buyer who reject
ed a large percentage of fruit as nom
merchantable when buying by weight,
pick and pack the same goods for the
London market when he bought by the
orchard. Our experience is that an
orchardist of fair judgment of weights,
had better sell a percentage short of
his Judgment by the orchard than to
endure the annoyance of watching the
pickers, packers and weighers during
the packing season. The most salts
factory way to dispose of our orchards
is for a lump sum, the buyer doing the
picking and packing.
NUTS IN CHINA.
California Fruit Grower Writing to
the State Department from Much
wang, under date December 81, 1898,
the United States Vice Consul, J. J. F.
Brandinel, says:
Peanuts are grown in these provinces
to the extent of about LOCO tons. About
100 tons We're shipped to Canton this
year for the purpose of expressing the
oil. Prices range from 50 to So per 1 II
pounds. Chestnuts are grown to the
extent of about 500 tons, but not for
export Price ranges from So to So per
112 pounds. Hazelnuts are grown at
a great distance, and only a few hun
dred weights come here for sale. Price
ranges from 81 to $6 per 112 pounds
Walnuts are grown to the extent of
about 1000 tons, of which about 800
tons are exported. Price ranges from
So to 81 per 112 pounds.
The above are only used as IN adj
junct to food-not as a regular article
of diet. Walnuts are sometimes eaten
raw, sometimes used, like almonds, to
flavor cakes, and sometimes preserved
in sugar. Hazelnuts are occasionally
eaten raw: more frequently cooked
Peanuts and chestnuts are always
cooked. A quantity of sand, about the
size of No. shot, is heated in an iron
pan over a wood fire. The nuts are
stirred in the heated sand until suffi-
GENTLY roasted. The sand. of course,
may be used several times for this
purpose.
THE WALNUT MEN.
Modesto News: A meeting, of dele
gates from the various walnut associa-
tions was recently held in Los Angeles.
Very little was accomplished other
than to discuss the handling of the crop
through the central association. 1t is
understood that every one of the aux
Hilary associations viii be represented
on the proposed central committee anC
that but few, if any, walnuts will re-
main on the outside. The same ton
mage of walnuts is looked for this sea-
son as last year. There may be n,lm :
inally q shortage, but the crop, unlike
that of 1898, will .,ossesS solidity and
weight The entire session was taken
up in discussions and, owing to the
absence of certain representatives,
nothing of moment was accomplished
Another meeting will be held next
month.
A PROSPECTIVE CREAMERY.
Napa Register Correspondent: AS we
are to have an extensive creamery
here, an institution that will afford
everyone with only few cows a ready
market for their milk and which will
be of great benefit to the whole COM
munity, it becomes an important con-
sideration to keep up full supply OF
milk all through the season. we all
know that our natural pastures give
out to a great extent sometimes in
July, but always in August; and from
that time on the dried grass and her
bage gives about sustenance enough
to the cattle to make a living until the
winter rains bring forth a new crop OIL
grass, which is sometimes, as was the
case this winter, by dry, cool weather,
deferred until April, though we have
seen seasons when there was abundant
pasture in February.
That cows cannot give an abundance
of rich milk during this time must be
apparent to every one. Nature has
done more for US than for the States
east of the Rockies; our cattle can live
through our mild winters even with
out expensive barns and stables to
shelter them, as our mountain gorges
with their glorious evergreen trees give
| them the necessary shelter, but for
COWS to do their best they must have
good. wholesome feed all the time.
Professor Fowler. in his excellent lee
ture insisted on the necessity of silos,
and advised green corn and alfalfa as
! the best crops to fill them and the best
feed; and also said that every farmer
| could build them himself at cost OF
| rs cents per ton of forage. l expect TO
get some specifications about their
building and cost from him and from
Professor Wickson for my next com
municat ton, but they can be built dur
ing the summer months when our farm
ers and dairymen viii have some spare
time to devote to them. But we want
to raise crops to fill them with and they
must he planted now. For some of them
it may be too late already; and as
have done some experimenting with
green crops on the Simonton ranch,
where we had some sixty to eighty
mich COWS to take care of, outside, of
about twenty pork animals and young
stock, l may claim some experience,
which may be of value to our farmers
Alfalfa seems to be one of the princi-
pal crops, together with green corn, to
raise for a silo, as we'll as for early
pasture / hope that my paper of the
26th of March has induced some of our
farmers at least to try an acre or two
on deep soil. / am satisfied that 1T will
succeed on such soils without irrigation.
But it is too late now to SOW it. The
same may be said for rye, which, if
sown during the fall or winter, is an eN-
| cel.ent crop for early pasture and green
feed. some of which every farmer who
has stock should SOW an acre or two. 1t