The record-union., 1899-04-29

three OF the most Deaull1ul acorn Lie
grounds of the Riley and Finlaw resi-
dences on Mendocino street and the
Proctor residence on Third street. The
blossoms on these bushes if numbered
would reach far into the thousands and
each presents magnificent spectacle.
Santa Rosans are awakening to the
beauty of their rose trees, which this
year give promise Of eclipsing all pre-
vious growths, and many photographs
have recently been taken to perpetuate
their beauty.
PROFIT IN SMYRNA FIGS.
Santa Rosa Farmer: G. Hunziker,
the Cloverdale horticultural, who has
discarded the alleged White Adriatic fig
and believes that after years in expert
mentation he has in the White Smyrna,
what will prove to BE the true fig of
commerce for this State, is demonstrate
ing the value of a limited supply of
water and judicious cultivation.
CALIFORNIA OLIVE OIL.
Colusa Sun: Olive oil ought to be-
come and will become an article of diet
in every household in the land. 1t is
going to be a great industry and in it
California will prosper. The tree lives
to great age. The trees of scripture
at Jerusalem are there yet, and the
older the tree the more olives.
The. battle now is between the pure
California oil and the cheaper salad
oils" made of cottonseed and other
things. Much of it is tabled olive oil,
BUTT should be avoided and the pure
OIL obtained. Every person whose di-
gestlon is not absolutely good should use
1t in quantities From personal knowl-
edge we speak, and our experience has
been but repetition of the universal
experience of otheres who have tried the
pure California article. 1t may require
little education to get to like it, but
che will soon acquire a taste for it so as
to eat it with a relish on almost every
article of diet. Men acquire taste for
tobacco and there is much more sense in
acquiring taste for that which gives
health than that which saps the
strength
sONOMA'S FRUITS
Santa Rosa Farmer: Apples prom
Use to be- fine crop this year, and the
men who head off the ravages of the
Goblin moth will reap the profit.
Grape vines are putting out their foli-
age nicely on the lower levels now In
the more favored spots where it is hoped
that danger from frost has passed
grapes are setting and a fine crop is
expected.
Bartlett pears, almonds and walnuts
promise a fine yield throughout the
State.
OIL FROM CORN
cd nee F1I,o
dian maize is destined TO forward ma
terially new industry In each ker.
mel there is a germ that yields oil
which, when refined, is fine vegetable
oil for the table, cooking, etc, and is
as good as olive Oil and costs less. This
will bring wealth to those States which
grow such heavy crops of Indian corn
for which they get small prices This
oil can also be made into a rubber fol
boots and shoes at a less cost than
rubber now so much in use.
ANTS KILL THE CUSHION SCALE
Colusa Sun: The ant is not a very
pleasant thing in the sugar bowl blu,
to the Orchardist, the florist, and those
likely to be troubled with scales an6
pests of that kind the ant is a very
valuable assistant. If such a pest as
the cottony cushion scale appears on g
tree and you see few ants start tC
run up and down you need not trouble
any more about it, If some one would
invent some way of colonizing ants In
orchards he would confer a favor or
the State. A few feet of ground here
and there could well be set apart fol-
them
A
Anderson Valley News: Considera-
BILE success has attended the efforts o1
Secretary Wilson to introduce grasse:
that will thrive upon the arid plains OF
the West. A variety from the steppes
of Russia, known to scientists as pro
mus inermus," which was imported last
year by the Department of Agriculture
has stood a six months drought in Cal
ifornia without losing a plant With
the return of rain the plants immedi-
ately revived and took on a luxuriant
growth which reached a hight Of two
feet. The roots Of this Russian grass
penetrated the soil to considerable
depth in search of moisture. and fol
that reason it can survive a drought
that would burn up any grass hereto
fore known to the West. The experts
of the department have other grasses
under experiment, and it Is probable
they will succeed in Transforming much
of the arid wastes into grazing lands
To assist in acccmplishings this result
the Secretary advocates the renting OF
lands in the arid regions He desires
the cooperation Of grazers, who are
now Indifferent to the preservation OF
the lands and will do nothing to i'm
prove them.
RURAL MAIL DELIVERY.
Pomona Progress: Postoffice Inspec-
tor Houpt, whose duty is to investigate
the postal needs of suburban districts
tablshing rural mail delivery systems
is in Pomona to-day looking over the
field here. Postmaster Androus is driv.
ing him about the valley, that he may
see how thickly settled the rural dis
tricts about Pomona are 1t remains
to be seen what Inspector Houpt's rec
concentrations will be.
FARM AND DAIRY NOTES.
The new creamery at sEscondido Is
supplying 500 pounds of butter pei
week. Not large but a beginning.
Salinas has a freak hen that LAYS
eggs with not only double yolk but
with double shell. in fact one perfect
egg within an egg.
Some of the farmers in the Grange
vile country have so much water thai
they have had to stop irrigating lest
they get their orchards and vineyards
too wet What pity that it is not sc
arranged that. that surplus could bt
| sold to parties who really need the
water.
A dairymans near Knights Landing
reports that from twelvescows in Marcel