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of extremely low prices early this spring 

 are not being verified. Scarcely any one 

 believed there would be much sale for 

 the fruit at remunerative prices till July 

 or August. Advices from the East have 

 predicted the usual depression in the 

 lemon market, but we notice both the 

 lemon companies at Azusa keep busy re- 

 ceiving and dispatching the fruit. 

 Furthermore, we are informed that the 

 demand is brisk and the supply inade- 

 quate and that good prices are prevailing. 

 No one doubts that the better care in 

 growing, picking and curing has much to 

 do with better markets, for the trade is 

 learning that it is getting less and less 

 precarious to order California lemons in 

 large quantities and that they can be 

 supplied in satisfactory quantities from 

 this State. 



"Before experience taught our growers, 

 they did not suppose that a warty or 

 ridgy lemon was more subject to decay 

 than a smooth lemon of exactly the same 

 internal texture. Now they know it is 

 next to impossible to preserve the oil 

 glands in the rough lemon during the 

 picking and curing period. Experience 

 has shown that a smooth lemon properly 

 matured, gathered and cured escapes in- 

 jury much more thoroughly than a rough 

 one of the same class otherwise. By ob- 

 serving common sense methods, the Cali- 

 fornia growers are putting forth a grade 

 that the trade is getting to rely upon and 

 firmer prices are maintaining wherever 

 the fruit has been tried. 



"An examination of the lemons now 

 curing in the association packing house 

 at Glendora shows a very large majority 

 of them grown with smooth skins, and 

 invariably they stand the curing ordeal 

 better than the corrugated and lumpy 

 fruit of the same general quality. Mr. 

 Scott, the manager, attributes the pro- 

 duction of finer fruit to closer soil assim- 

 ilation, greater age in the trees and 

 common sense pruning, with great em- 

 phasis on the latter clause. ' Put on the 

 tariff and lop off the water sprouts,' 

 might be nailed to Scott's office door as 

 the theme of his daily discourse, varied 

 with reflections on ripe-lemon pulling, 

 carelessness in handling, over-irrigation 

 and lopping off the water sprouts again. 



"Since his advent at Glendora he has 

 interrogated every sentence with a prun- 

 ing hook. He believes in his theme 



it may prove to be a mission to this 

 valley, where lemon trees grow like eu- 

 calyptus and he stays with it every day 

 in the week. It is well to have a mon- 

 itor in the association for it cannot select 

 the good and refuse the bad that comes 

 to a lemon curing establishment, and 

 its success is dependent in a good meas- 

 ure on securing as little poor fruit as 

 possible, for its members have a right to 

 have their entire output cared for. Agi- 

 tation for better methods should be the 

 association's watchword and is, and while 

 Mr. Scott's theories on pruning are most 

 radical they are rational and are produc- 

 ing results to be proud of in their appli- 

 cation.'' 



Feeding Cattle.^. L. Koy, of Topeka, 

 Kan., has recently made a careful test in 

 feeding flaxseed meal to twelve rough 

 cattle. They weighed when bought 

 10,340 pounds. In seventy-five days they 

 gained 4,610 Ibs. The shrinkage before 

 sale on the market was 710 Ibs., partly 

 due to bad handling. The ground meal 

 cost about one third more per ton than 

 corn. The cattle were in such prime con- 

 dition that they brought 40 cents per 

 hundred more than other cattle of the 

 same weight sold the same day. The 

 summary as made in Colman' s Rural World 

 shows: 



This very valuable feeding test estab- 

 lished beyond question several new points 

 in feeding, and strongly emphasized some 

 others. Among them are the facts that 

 ground linseed meal 



Makes meat quickly. 



Makes meat at less money than other feed. 



Makes more meat than other feeds. 



Makes absolutely healthy meat, which 

 is worth much in the steer or hog, and 

 worth infinitely more to the person who 

 eats it. 



Makes a loose hide, a good digestion 

 and the best possible general appearance. 



Makes meat that sells for more money 

 than animals fed on other feeds. 



You can feed without danger, as much 

 of it as the animal will eat. The more 

 you feed the more meat you get. 



Do not be afraid to feed it liberally. It 

 is feed, and not medicine. 



It contains three times as much nour- 

 ishment as corn, and does not cost much, 

 more than corn. Therefore, it is cheaper 

 than corn. 



