The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-05-16

a walnut is placed in each date Pow
dcred sugar is then9sifted over the dates
and they are placed in the boxes ready
for transportation.
Last year Miss Denny made 5000
pounds and this year 20,O00 She has
made as many as 40 pounds in a day,
and when one remembers that it is ali
hand work, some idea may be gained of
the labor involved An interesting thing
in connection with the business is that
all the seeds are burned in the stove of
the house instead of COAL and the fire
they make is quite hot, and all the dirt
of coal is avoided
A BUREAU OF FORESTRY.
Red Bluff Sentinel: A National Blu
reau of Forestry is destined to be one of
the most important branches of the
Government Practical foresters in the
United States are scarce. In fact, about
the only ones are the lumbermen, ana
their forest training is all in one line.
The Forester of the Department of Ag-
riculture, Clifford Pinchot. is arranging
to take a forestry class with him into
the forests of the Far West for the pur-
pose of studying forest preservation.
Their expenses will be paid by the Gov
eminent, and they will be utilized by
him as assistants, at the same time re-
ceiving practical instruction in lines of
work for which there is sure to be a de-
mand in this country, as the question
of practical forestry comes more ana
more to the front, and the need of for
est preservation is realized.
ABOUT THE STATE.
Santa Cruz Surf: California is to have
a great harvest in '99. Taking the State
altogether it will be a record breaking
year in many lines of production. In
formation gathered in newspaper Of
fees. in personal conversations and OBJ
sci vations in forty counties, leads to the
above conclusions. Below the Tehacha-
pi the second year of droughth prevails
and on unirrigated lands there will be
no crops, but irrigation has already be-
come so extensive in this section that the
agricultural output will be considerable
irrespective and Independent of the
rainfall. Herds of hornless cows feed
| ing in alfalfa up to their eyes, in fields
separated from the desert only by
ditch are impressive object lessons II
| this region, and prove that dairyins
may be carried on without range fol
pasturage. without fences, without
barns. and without many other former
| indispensables.
OREGON'S HOP CROP.
Cervais. Or. correspondent of Ore
gcnian: The hop crop promises to b
large Last year many complaints .
s.missing hills" were made, and it Wa'
conjectured that they were dead for 81
time However, that has not proven
to be the case, as it is an almost uni
versal rule that the missing hills" o
last year are now producing STRONG
healthy growth. after the years rest
1T seems possible that they were in
iured the previous year during picking
or ernbbine time. For instance, they
may have been cut off at the ground
to facilitate picking, by some enter
prising picker. This has a killing eff
feet on the vine me OUTLOOK IS
promising enc, especially as many grow
ers had contracts expire the past sea
son. and now refuse to re-contract.
The outlook for the coming year!
price is fully as good as for the pro
duction. 1t is the average estimate q
the best authorities that the 1898 crol
in the United States was 10000 bales
1t is not denied by the same authorize:
that less than 10 per cent. of this croI
remains unsold, as we'll as what vir
tUally amounts to a cleanup of al
other years. leaving, as it appears a
the present time, a clean field for th'
crop of 1899. It must also be borne
in mind that fully four months remain