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oranges is 325 boxes per acre of fifteen-year-old trees ; that of 

 grapes is intended to represent a mean between upland and 

 lowlands. 



QUANTITIES OF SOIL INGREDIENTS WITHDRAWN BY VARIOUS FRUIT CROPS. 



Total ash. Potash. Phos. acid. Nitrogen, 



lbs. lbs. lbs. lbs. 



Grapes, 1,000 lbs 8.8 5.0 1.52 1.70 



Crop of 10,000 lbs. per acre 50.0 1520 17.00 



Oranges, seedless, per 1,000 lbs 6.07 2.78 .67 2.69 



Crop of 20,000 lbs. per acre 55-6o 13.40 53-8o 



Pears, 1,000 lbs 3.3 1.8 .5 .6 



Crop of 20,000 Ids. per acre 36. 10. 12. 



Plums, 1,000 lbs 2.9 1.72 44. 4.2 



Crop of 30,000 lbs. per acre 51.60 13.20 167.7 



Apples, 1,000 lbs 2.2 .80 .03 .6 



Crop of 20,000 lbs. per acre 16.00 6.00 12.0 



''The drift of all experiments shows that lime and potash 

 are usually abundant in California soils but that nitrogen and 

 phosphoric acid are scarce. When the report alluded to was 

 published, it aroused immediate discussion in newspapers, 

 granges and horticultural meetings over the state. The need 

 of the application of fertilizers was universally acknowledged. 

 The University reports have gradually educated the public, 

 and the 'scientific farmer ' is not so rare a creature as he was 

 a decade ago." 



Washington. Attention has been directed of late to the 

 remarkable horticultural resources of some parts of Oregon 

 and Washington. It appears that the region lying about the 

 Straits of Juan de Fuca, in the extreme northwestern corner 

 of our territory, possesses adaptabilities to fruit-growing of 

 an unusual character. The following correspondence upon 

 fruit-growing upon Orcas Island, by Rev. S. R. S. Gra\^, 

 which originally appeared in the Seattle Post-Intellige7icer, 

 indicates the possibilities of the region : 



"The Japanese current exercises a profound influence upon 

 western Washington, where, entering through the grand chan- 

 nels called the Straits of Juan de Fuca and the Gulf of 

 Georgia, it penetrates by sounds, by canals, by reaches, natural 

 harbors and vast bays, gulfs and channels far into the body 

 of land lying west of the Cascade range and east of the 

 Olympic range, so that thousands of square miles of agricul- 

 tural lands are influenced. Lying in that vast waterway 



