FRUIT GROWING IN CALIFORNIA.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2236, 6 November 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)

FRUIT GROWING IN CALIFORNIA.

-♦- Sir, — The enclosed letter fiom ftiy son, who has lately established hi.n-elr on a fruit ranch in Caiitonra, in iv be of use to those \vh > think fiuit 1 ii<mcr an p.isv way of makinir .1 livi'iur. It you woi>ld publish it mm h disappointment might be prevented M\ «on is on the Foot Hills, in tlio Santi Clata county, California. — E. R Sint.i Cl.ua Co.. California, June 14, l^Bf>. — In c.i-c v>u should meet with any one \\])i> thinks of <,' ovj, m tor fiuit lai^m^r, with tho ide i - • pio\alent at home that it consists of -sticki'i^ in the tiees and then sitting down t<> watch them glow, I will tell vm Miiue ot the w oik that ha> been done on this ranch <>t 20 acies tins vcw It has bopii ploughed twice, the hi^t tnnr tie "i>ly, with £nu? ])loughs ; h. mowed ti\e tpn-H ' part ■< of it si \ or timo>l, cultivated t\v cc (the cultivator ha> teeth pmjectin^ which teai up the woed^ and 1 mien the euth at tlie ioot> of the tiep>) ; uminev with a clod cn^her (nice, and I ha\e been round to e\civ tiee once, and .dl excepting 1 a fi v .v h<iu twice, rubbing -'ft fhoot- and killmsr cut worm-. The>e l.ttcr aie i -pvits of cateipilLu, which wore if "U'ht, _and eat oil dio end-> of IhtM'iu.m' s'loot-, ot com- 1 keeping the tiro In k. Tii'-'i "i in the s»> i-,iji it *■% ••uM inu ally m n,U> .i llh> dad ».e.)-e in ,1 , }| u . , i.,'t Hi! iUtnnt it \vi.,dd do im :< ') iiii-( In- t in t'.e iiavtnntj the,\ be cut ltd up I'i-t undi i the -\i { te v <>t the loose c.a th ,it the io .t <>f the 11 1 ft , and m older to g>t tlitMii one lias t«. £o lound t > each tiee nnd mot lound it with one's fin^eis, which, whenth r^.u'e o\e; two thousand tiei 1 -, is ipute mi mdeit.! -n^'. Som >ti'iies Itvv d a-s in mv .is fo ir .it on" tiee. Th<s\\oik i-, of couise, all in addition ro the actuil 1 iv\ng out ,m ' i»lantiMEf ; and all th * '"choies, ' such 1-^ >i timiiLT ami feeding hoi->>., cl< anuifc Ml) t st>''.i^, -. win;,' and chopping tuev.-i, |, :» >isoiiHii,' 'j'pht'is (a sinill burtowing ininp] li twe mi a lat <md a s(juiiivl, whie! • -ts the yoiuu i<> )f s of tiee-), and all the nmumeiable odd jobs about a lanch, -The 1 lfclri.

In all tl). piipc.pal grain growing countries (,f Hirp*. according to the latest tt poiN, the ct ops are less abundant than they wvrt* pievions'y represented to lie, an 1 t!to cjualitv i«> com-plairu-il o f >>- ••> Mi| () even when th'» quantity id aatisfac'ory.