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ADAPTABILITY. 



The cn'ol) will grow wliere other plants make a very poor sliowing. 

 On high, dry, i-ocky points, by i-oadsides, along drives, bordering water- 

 courses, anywhere where vacant spots are to be found, there this beau- 

 tifid glossy foliage tree may be grown, adding to the landscape 

 attractions and every year bearing an abundance of high grad(> forage. 

 It will endure neglect after once established, and can be planted 60 to 

 100 to the acre where soil conditions are moderately favorable. A 

 recent visitor to Algeria tells me he saw the earob everywliere. In 

 the lower fertile lands were found fruit trees and crops; on the next 

 higher lands grapes were carefully tended, but on the high dry places 

 the carobs were planted and made a splendid growth. 



G. P. Rixford has a record of a carob that grew in a rock crevice at 

 Campo Seco, Calaveras County. Me says: "It had l)id dehance for 

 many years to the sulphur fumes from the neighboring copper smelter 

 which liad killed every vestige of vegetation in the vicinity, except the 

 poison oak — RJius divcrsiloha. It finally succumbed, not to the acid 

 fumes, but from lack of moisture after the little soil in the crevice had 

 been washed out by rains, leaving the roots bare." 



Tliousands of acres of our own pasture lands, now averaging less 

 than a ton of indifferent forage, can ho made to produce upwards to 

 fiv(; tons of earob pods. 



PRODUCTIVITY. 



Dr. Aaronshon, of Palestine, who attended the Fresno convention in 

 3912, said that seedling trees will produce an average of 350 to 

 500 pounds per tree. Twenty trees to the acre will thus produce three 

 and a half to five tons each year. He reports grafted trees, eighteen 

 years old, bearing 900 to 1,100 pounds each. When one reflects that 

 the carob is easily grafted, the possibilities of a pasture of carobs makes 

 the industry quite worth trying out. 



NUTRITIVE CONTENT. 



Pods from six seedling trees now growing in Santa Barbara Avere 

 sent to the United States Department of Agriculture, AVashington, and 

 the following analyses were reported : 



A B C 



(;illos]»ic 27.14 l.'i.TS C.U.9-1; 



(iould, No. 38 24.82 ir>.02 80.5>S 



Gould, No. 27 23.39 lo.Cj 1)2.28 



Gould, No. 24 30.20 IS.IC. 01.84 



Gould, No. 18 32.58 12.57 00.24 



(Jould, No. 30.34 14.31 02.00 



A — Sucrcse per cent. 



B — Reducing sugars per cent. 



C — Dry substance per cent. 



In this report, No. 18 shows a sugar content of 45.15 per cent. 

 No. 9, 44.65 per cent sugar. No. 24, 43.36 per cent, and the Gillespie 

 tree gave 40.92 per cent. The poorest of them is a very rich forage 

 product. Dr. Aaronshon says the pods carry, in addition to the sugar 

 content, a protein supply of 7 to 8 per cent, and in the experiment 

 station record No. 10, for June, 1905, will be found the analysis of a 



