The San Francisco call., 1904-03-10
THE STATE IN 1903.


i liable year books of California They present the
only statistics the entire range of production and
export, OF the highest value.
State Board of Trade has been existence
years, and has been urgent force in the symmet
rcal development of California When the timd have
iinched the next step forward the Boards reports
have doubts of the future by the alb
sobing capacity of the market. Under its encourage
ment finding outside market for products
that were not thought of exports before
aged planters, by showing demand and market
year exports of fruits and fruit products and
vegetables SSoS4 carloads of each. That
was shipment of 734o4 per month, 1851 per
week, 262I per day. and nearly tons per hour
through the whole year. of these products of the soil
The gain 1902 Io546 carloads, of which 1895
citrus fruits. The citrus export from Northern Cal
ornia 2246 carloads, gain of 5o8 over 1902.
The report notes the fact of the earlier rpening of
Northern California oranges which extends the orange
season of the State by months. The progress
of the fruit to maturity depends upon the degree and
daily number of hours of heat which induce it. The
earlier rpening in the Northern California citrus belt is
accidental sporadic, but is caused by fixed phys
conditions. belt the slope of the
Sierra Nevada Mountains The records OF temperature
show that the heat present hours in day than in
Southern California because the Coast Range shuts out
the cold winds from the excluding both cold and
moisture, and the heat lasts from sunrise
A given number of hours OF heat being required to
the afternoon when the trade winds begin blowing the
thermal day shortened by of four hours in
the afternoon and by least hours in the morning
spent overcoming the chill of the night This loss in
heat amounts then to three months year, which is
the difference between maturity of the orange in
citrus belts. The northern belt gets hours of
! heat per day
This difference fortunate for both belts and for the
State Were the temperatures the degree and in
hours per day, both crops would be in the market to-
gether and would be deprived of the advantage of
long season. the longest in any citrus producing
country in the world 1t benefits us only in the
market but in transportation market. If both belts
came in at there would be greater difficulty in get
ting cars take the crop away the The
possibilities of the northern citrus belt great.
Oranges grow perfection the canyon of the Merced
River on the Ward ranch, in the Yosemite National
Park in sight from Sentinel Dome above the Yosemite
Valley, and the Looms ranch in the horseshoe bend
| OF the Merced, away up in the mountains.
General Chipman's report shows that wine export
has doubled since 1891, and is steadily increasing One
subject of great interest is increasing OF
tables. The frosts of Florida have made uncertain
supply from that Last year increased
vegetable shipment 1905 carloads This consists of
rubarb celery asparagus artchokes green peas string
beans and salad plants all of which reach the Atlantic
seaboard in the winter in prime condition and find
ready market This trade is capable of indefinite es
pansion Our gardens and truck lands in this State pro-
duce crops every day in the year. and the excellence OF
vegetables is well known. Improvements in trans
portaton constant and to the export
of vegetables equal that of fruits.
The report brings the dairy industry into focus as
leading The product increased last year $22Iz
500 The total value of dairy products $2o436152
or greater than the value OF wheat This is due the
expansion of alfalfa planting. Alfalfa is taking the
place OF wheat and is factor the production of beef
mutton pork poultry, and milk cheese and butter.
Large the dairy product it hardly supplied do
mestc consumption. There is for Improvement
in the manufacture of cheese American cheese lost its
foreign market when the dairymen of New York learned
to make butter and cheese of the same milk They
put the butter and put lard in its place
skim milk Our lost market taken by Canada
and the Dominion has only held it but has come into
market and Canada cheese is sold in California
This State seems have alfalfa and other forage
plants the ideal conditions for fine cheese production
The way to get a market and hold it is by making full
cream and well rpened cheese and nothing else
We have often preached the gospel of commercial
honor The increasing acreage of alfalfa will over
supply our home market for dairy products and we will
export Cheese is the perishable form in which
to export milk. scientific study of methods will re-
the fact that produce here of the high
cheese that is imported from Europe Wherever
that production question of fermentation only we
can duplicate it. Some imported cheese Roquefort
gets its quality from special herbage which the
COWS feed and that grows in restricted district But
experiment may prove that have special plants here
that will produce special types of cheese The State
Board may be depended upon to take up cheese pro-
duction with the vgor that characterized it in
i stimulating fruit planting
1t is probable that this report questions
about California than other publication, and should