The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-11-08

chuck-a-block. Finally Mr.. Howe COM
menced shipping East, and he mas
worked up q good trade. This year ne
shipped ten car loads of thirteen tons
each, or $500 boxes. The through
freight bills from Suisun East were
$3.50, and the way freight from So
noma brings the freight bills UP a hun
dred or two more.
The fruit which ripens between car
load shipments supplies San Francisco.
THE CREAMERY.
Modesto Herald. october 10Th: The
butter from the two creameries near
Newman yielded % cents a pound net
to the patrons for September-more, in
deed, for the patrons received $9, 40. ~
for 35,1O8 pounds of butter. The
SKINNED milk, which is returned to the
patrons, comprises another material
source of revenue Indeed, this item
of revenue meets, If it does not exceed,
the cost of milking.
KEEPING POTATOES IN SAND.
Suffer Farmer: Back of the farm of
Joseph Girdner on adjoining land
farmed by G. H. Robinson a large crop
I of fine quality of sweet potatoes were
raised during the present season, says
the Democrat" Mr.. Robinson has
been placing a large number of potatoes
in dry sand to be kept in a dry place
until spring, when they will demand
t better price. This process he has tried
in years past and the result has been
very satisfactory, the potatoes appear
ing as fresh as when first taken from
the ground.
CHESTNUTS.
Alta Advocate: Henry Burum has on
his place two chestnut trees that are
loaded with mature and fully developed
nuts. The raising of these nuts in Cal
ifornia we have never heard discussed.
1t is supposed that heavy frosts are nee
essary to make them perfect and cause
them to shed their hulls and spikes, but
the nuts on these trees are now in
perfect state.
SAN DIEGO LEMONS.
The San Diego Union recently pub
lished a special edition, in which much
space is devoted to the important
lemon growing industry of San Diego
County. In an editorial, commenting
upon the facts presented, the Union"
says:
In round numbers San Diego County
has 100000 lemon trees. OF these, one
fifth are now in bearing, their product
being 800 carloads or over for the pres
ent year. Were the remaining 100000
trees equally productive the present
output would be over twenty-five hun
dred carloads. That shipments will
reach the latter figure within a very
few years is certainty. Each season
new trees come into bearing, and the
older ones give larger yields. Annually,
since the first orchards We're set out,
there has been a steady gain in the
product, although owing to dry seasons
the increase has been much less during
the past two or three years than it
would have been under more favorable
conditions. And in spite of all draw
backs the gain has been sufficiently
great to indicate the vast proportions
that the industry will assume during
the next half decade
LAS said before, if all the trees We're
now producing, there. would be over
., 500 carloads to ship, and it will not be
long before that figure is reached But
when that time shall have come, the
product will continue to increase, for
even then there will be many trees not
yet at their maximum of productive
ness. And even if no new orchards
were set out, the 100000 trees now in
the ground will insure an ultimate out
put of between 5000 and 5000 car
loads annually; for at an average of
three boxes to the tree, the orchards
now in this county would produce the
former amount.
I'm no country in the United States
has lemon growing assumed the pro-
portions that it has reached in San
Diego County, and nowhere can lemons
be produced more successfully than
here, the frostless belt of the bay re-
gion being peculiarly adapted to this
fruit. The industry has a magnificent
future