The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-12-31
Agriculture
and
Orticulture

| The Woodland Democrat says the
Davisville Almond Growers Associa-
ton shipped during the last season
49S, 704 pounds of almonds in varieties
as follows: Nonpareil, 1892; XXI,
I116,OS4; Ne Plus Ultra, 1864; Lam
guedoc, 81 ,592; Drake, 40,725; Golden
State, 12,6SS; Standard, S,254 hard
shells, 2,401; California papershells'
1,s63; Peerless, 1,629; REUTER-, l,3o6;
Texas Prolific, 866.
WHERE THE OLIVE THRIVES
| Here, says the Oroville Register,
with a greater rainfall than Southern
California has, the olive thrives well
and bears heavily. We have observed
that the olive trees that are well lrrl-
gated bear.much more than the un1rrl-
gated trees. In fact, the olives bend
the limbs down until the olive tree re-
sembles a weeping willow.
| MEXICAN ORANGE MAGGOT.
| San Bernardino Times-Index: F. Wit
tram of San Francisco, who owns a
large body of land near Etiwanda, is
quoted by the California Fruit-Grow
err as making the following sensible
remarks about the Mexican orange
maggott, trypeta ludens: "Oh, don
know. It isn't a new creation. 1t ex-
listed hundreds, and for aught l know
to the contrary, thousands OF years ago,
and during all this time mankind mas
enjoyed it's oranges, and hundreds anu
thousands of years hence, orange mag
got or no orange maggot, the great
proba bilities are that people will have
their fill of that delicious fruit no
tice that every once in awhile scare
comes to the surface; press and pubic
take it up and do the work OF pushing
it along, but it finally subsidies. the
scare dies out and the object upon
which so much solicitude was centered
continues to bob along serenely."
SUNFLOWERS.
Pomona Times: Sunf1owers are said
to be good for dairy cows, and there is
talk of growing them in Arizona fol-
cattle. 1t is curious fact that sun
flowers in California grow after the
barley and wheat when the ground Is
very dry.
OUR FRUITS LEAD.
Santa Ana Blade: Orange County
: produces the best articles in the line
of dried apricots found in all Of Cali
fornia, and Orange County fruit-grow-
ers cannot fail to be interested in the
publication of a recent consular report
from Berlin relative to the genera
standing of California dried fruits II
the German mind and markets. Consul
General Mason of Berlin uses this en-
!phatic language: I'm respect to driec
apricots, pear and peaches, it may pe
said. once for all, that these fruits from
the Pacific Coast of the Uniteo
States dominate and control the mar
kets of Continental Europe. Nothing
comparable to them in point of size
flavor tenderness of pulp and genera
excellence had ever been seen in Eu-
!, rope until they were imported from the
United States. They have established
wholly new standards of excellence and
created a new market, which, if the
trade is properly managed, they car
hold in future against any probable
, competition"
NEW LIGHT ON SPRAYING.
. California Fruit Grower: At a recent
farmers convention, according td
| Green's Fruit-Grower,' Professor Bur
rill of the University of Illinois gave to
his hearers a piece of information thai
/, he said had not yet got into the DOCKS
| 1t was relative to the first spraying OF
. fruit trees for fungous diseases.
1t has been believed that in the
case of most of these pests the spore,
. lived over on the twigs of the trees
1t was advised to spray them before
the blossoms were open for the pur-
pose of killing these colonies Of
spores. Fruit raisers have been re-
/ ligiously carrying out instructions II
this regard and the experiment sta
, lions have been sending out spraying
calendars year by year, in which the
, fruit raiser is advised to spray before
, the opening of the blossoms. But nov
it has been found that the spores live
over on the leaves that fall to the
ground and lie there TIL spring. With
t the first breath of spring these spores
I ripen sufficiently to float in the air ani
as soon as the young leaf begins to ex.
pand they find a Judgment there an6
/ begin their life work 1t il therefore
useless to spray at the earliest time in.
| Dictated in most of our books on spray.
inc