704 THE MONTHLY BULLETIN. 



returns, $1.00 per box. Peaches — crop 35 per cent; returns at cannery, green, $12.50 

 to $25 per ton. Pears — crop 75 per cent; returns, $35 per ton. Plums (shipping) — 

 crop 100 per cent; returns, 2^ per pound. A. L. Rutherford. 



Ventura County: 



A2}ricots all harvested ; yield approximately 1,700 tons of dried fruit, compared 

 with 2.400 tons last season. Bean harvest well imder way; prospects at present not 

 over 90 per cent of last year. Price from 4| cents to 5 cents. Beets over half har- 

 vested, with prospect of normal sugar yield. Prospects for lemons for the coming 

 season almost normal. Oranges, prospects for the coming season almost normal. 

 Recent hot weather has lowered the estimate on walnuts from 105 per cent of last 

 year's crop to 95 per cent of same. Walnut harvest lias just commenced. — R. S. Vaile. 



Tehama County: 



Alfalfa — crop 100 per cent. Almonds — crop 10 per cent, due to spring frosts. 

 Apples — crop 25 per cent, due to over-production in 1912. Apricots — crop 75 per 

 cent, due to dry season and spring frosts. Grapes (table) — crop 75 per cent, due to 

 hot weatlier in early July. Grapes (wine) — crop 100 per cent. Bay- — -crop 100 per 

 cent, due to late spring rains. Lemons — crop 100 per cent. Olives — crop 50 per cent, 

 due to dry season and hot north winds in blossoming time. Oranges — crop 100 per 

 cent. Peaches (drying) — crop 40 per cent; Crawford, crop 40 per cent; Muir, crop 

 40 per cent; Lovell, crop 40 per cent; other varieties, crop 40 per cent; due to spring 

 frosts and dry weather. Peaches (shipping) — crop 40 per cent; Alexander, crop 40 

 per cent; Elberta, crop 40 per cent; other varieties, crop 40 per cent; due to spring 

 frosts and dry weather. Pears — crop 10 per cent, due to blight. Plums (shipping) — 

 crop 100 per cent. Prunes — crop 30 per cent, due to dry season and hot winds in 

 July. — Chas. B. Weeks. 



Yolo County: 



It is too early to give final figures of this season's output of some of Yolo County's 

 principal products, as raisins and prunes are only partly harvested ; almonds are now 

 being shipped, and sugar beets are to some extent still in the field. Almonds are 

 turning out 60 per cent of a normal yield with the exception of Nonpareil, which had 

 almost an average yield. Prunes are yielding from 40 per cent to 50 per cent; rather 

 shy at that, in localities where no irrigation is practised. Peaches, 60 per cent ; 

 Figs, practically full crop, and grapes- — for raisins and wine — from 60 per cent to 90 

 per cent. The large variation of yield is accounted for by the difference in water 

 supply. — G. H. Hecke. 



