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BETTER FRUIT 



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Th. BLASTERw^ 



"/ use <^ 

 It ^ets them out 

 cleaner 



Professional blasters know explosives. They have tried 

 all the different makes. Many of them say "Giant gets the 

 stumps out cleaner." John Zurr of Santa Rosa, Cal., vi^rites: 



"From the beginning of the time I have been using 

 powder for stump blasting and other agricultural work, I 

 have found the powder made by The Giant Powder Co. to 

 be the most satisfactory. Each certain percentage of Giant 

 Powder is exactly what it is represented to be. ' 



Tell your dealer you want the genuine Giant Farm 

 Powders— Giant Stumping or Eureka Stumping. _ The Giant 

 trademark on every box is your sure protection against 

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profitable in California to engage in the grow- 

 ing of perishable fruits. 



A new building will probably be erected in 

 Sacramento in the near future to house the 

 L'overnnient iliscclary, which il is planned to 

 niiive there from Berkeley. The inseelary will 

 hf an experimental slalion, oflicials devoting 

 Iheir time to propagation of insects that de- 

 stroy fruit and vegetable pests. 



I'riiit shipments from California this year 

 handled through the California Fruit Uislribu- 

 tors of Sacramento passed the 18,000 carload 

 record some time ago, with 10,000 cars, princi- 

 pally grapes, still to be sent East. Early indi- 

 cations were that the shipmenls would total as 

 high as 3.5,000 carloads, but this mark cannot 

 be reached, due to shortage of cars. 



Among the fruit shipmenls from the Sacra- 

 mento Valley recently was a carload of Tokay 

 grapes from the Humphrey vineyards in Sacra- 

 mento Comity to Havana, Cuba. This was the 

 flrst time a grape shipment of such size was 

 sent to Havana. 



That wine grapes in California are far from 

 being unprofitable as yet is shown from the 

 fact that Emerzian Brothers, who own a vine- 

 yard near Porterville, took $25,000 worth of 

 fruit from an eighty-acre vineyard, averaging 

 .$312 per acre. 



The California almond crop, which was 

 picked early this season, is reported to be 

 show ing satisfactory results, and a big tonnage 

 is now expected. 



Bush fruits are now engaging the attention 

 of fruit growers in the Turlock Valley and a 

 large number of acres of small fruits, it is re- 

 ported, will be put out in this section during 

 the coming planting season. 



Up to October 10 cantaloupes were still being 

 shipped out of the Turlock district and the 

 season's crop totaled around 4,500 cars. 



A bunch of Tliompson Seedling grapes weigh- 

 ing five pounds and measuring twenty-one 

 inches in length was recently exhibited at 

 Turlock. 



Organized citrus fruit growers in Tulare 

 County recently met and agieed to assume all 

 the expenses of a series of fertilizer and irri- 

 gation experiments to be conducted by experts 

 in that county. The experiments are to extend 

 over a period of live years. 



The first of the new crop of dates in the 

 Imperial Valley appeared on the market about 

 October 1. They retailed for 75 cents a pound. 



Weather conditions for the raisin crop in 

 California are said to have been ideal during 

 this year and a large part of the crop is already 

 in the stack for drying. 



More than a dozen new small prune orchards 

 will be planted in Tulare County this fall. 



The apple crop in Tuolume county is way 

 above normal and owing to close grading and 

 standardizing the pack is selling at $2.40 to 

 ,1i2.50 per box. 



Practically all the Lake County pears will 

 be dried this year. A big loss that has hereto- 

 fore prevailed in that district was prevented 

 this year by "straw ing" the orchards which 

 stopped the bruising of windfalls. 



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