The record-union., 1899-06-30
M alters at
Fair Oaks.
Correspondence Record-Union. )

FAIR OAKS. June 29.-The Fruit
| Growers Association Of Fair Oaks and
Orangevale, auxiliary to the California
Fruit Growers Association, held its
third meeting Tuesday evening at Or
angevale. Little was done at this meet
ing except to arrange to push the stock
| subscription as fast as possible. The
next meeting will be- on July 18th at
the hall in Fair Oaks. This meeting
will be one of unusual interest to all
fruit growers. The plan for work and
the discussion of the refrigerator car
system will form a part of the pro-
gram. Speakers from Sacramento are
expected, and the exercises will be en-
livened with music
1t is the purpose Of the leaders in
this movement to have everybody at
tend this meeting and take part in the
discussion The feeling prevails that
this association will encounter very
powerful opposition from the estab-
lished fruit companies. California
fruit-growers furnish the capital for all
the immense business which comes di-
rectly from this industry. They pay
81 ,O00,OO profit annually to the refrig-
expenses for buyers to come and make
an offer for the crop on the trees.
There is no other industry in the world
that is conducted on such an expensive
plan, on such a ruinous system, as this
fruit shipping business. Every fruit
grower should examine this matter
and wake up to a plan which will en-
able the producer to sell his crop at
lower prices, this charging his market
and at the same time save all these
large profits which now go to the fruit
companies.
Planting orange trees still goes on in
Fair Oaks. Harry Lands Is delivering
his stock Of orange trees in forms"
which is now giving great satisfaction.
Trees one year old from the bud will
not be set back in the least by being
shipped, if sent in these metallic
forms"
The proposition of the firm of Wat
kins & Phillips to furnish shade trees
is in keeping with the reputation of this
new firm of nursery stock. Mr.. Wat
kins finds that trees grow better here
than anywhere else in the State. Mr..
Bishop has a. cherry tree of two sea-
sons growth measuring nearly four
teen feet high and fully ten inches in
circumference. THE warm weather has
set all trees growing: at a pace that
is simply marvellous. Almonds have
already sent out new branches on all
sides of trees two and three feet long,
thus adding to the diameter of the top
six feet already.
One of the largest, if not the largest,
| tree is found on the ten-acre tract Of
the Four Gables. 1t is an English
walnut, making it's third year of
growth, and measures now one foot
six inches in circumference, fifteen feet
| high, and the diameter OF the top
| fifteen feet Several lateral branches
| have grown this season four feet in
| length, and one measured four feet
nine inches. The tree is a very beauti-
full one, branching low and reaching
equally in all directions.
| The great fertility of the soil and
the supply of water make Fair Oaks
more than a garden spot. These trees
mentioned can be matched in any place
in the colony where good care has been
given. It should be said that most
of these trees described above have not
needed irrigation yet this year. Much
of the soil, with frequent cultivation,
retains the moisture, so that decdduous
trees need but little irrigation. Mr..
Holst's fine almond orchard has had
no irrigation since the first year. Good
cultivation has done the work.
| Miss Jean Smith has returned to her
home on the Bluff to spend her sum-
mer vacation. She is attending the
Normal School at San Jose.
John Leonard is without rival in
the blackberry business Blackberries
are fine and abundant, and growers Of
fer one-third and one-half to pickers,
but Mr.. Leonard gives the whole crop
to his pickers, and if the whole crop
is not picked it is because his neigh
bors have not large enough families.
He is also very liberal with the squir-
rels and linnets, though not with SO
much grace as he shows to his neigh
bors.
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L