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PACIFIC TREE AND VINE 



NINETEENTH YEAR. 



The exponent of the fruit growing, 



farming, stockraising, poultry keeping, 



and home making interests of the Pacific 



Coast. 



Issued Monthly at 

 18 South Market St.. - - San Jose. 



Address all communications and remittan- 

 ces to 



PACIFIC TREE AND VINE, 



18 South Market Street S4N JOSE. CALIFOKNU 



FAYETTE MITCHELTREE, - - - Editor 

 JOHN ISAAC, Associate Editor 



■ CONTRIBUTORS : 

 Kranklin Hichbokn James Hague 

 J. C. Williams B. T. McBain 

 Edward Ehrhorn 



Subscription Price, On e Year : : : 50c. 



Correspondence solicited on all matters 

 of interest pertaining to farm life or de- 

 velopment of the resources of this coast. 



Pacific Tkee and Vine is published 

 monthly; subscribers not receiving tlieir 

 paper promptly should give notice so 

 that the cause may be ascertained. 



Renewals. — The date printed with 

 your name on the paper or wrapper 

 should show to what time your sub- 

 scription is paid. Thus Jan 03 indicates 

 that payment has been received up to 

 January 1, 1903; Feb 03 up to February 

 1, 1903; and so on. Some time is required 

 after receipt of money before the date, 

 which serves as a receipt, can be changeil. 

 If you find or believe an error has been 

 made in the date notify this ofHce at 

 once. 



D1SC0NTINUANCE.S. — A subscriber wish- 

 ing to stop his paiier mu,st notify tlie 

 publisher and pay up all arrears, other- 

 wise he is responsible as long as tlie 

 paper is sent. 



Change of Address.^ — A subscriber 

 wishing to have his address changed 

 should give both the old and the new- 

 address. 



Send fifty rL-nts at unrc '.iiiil thus settle 

 your back indebtedness and secure the 

 TEtEK AMD \'ine for auntlu'i' year. This 

 speirial offer closes June 1.5. 



i'.XCll'IC TRi: !•: .'VNI) VI N 



is equivalent to L'7,149 gallons of water 

 on an acre of 43,.5tiO square feet, or .Hlii' 

 barrels, of water 3U gallons each. -U 

 231 cubic inches to the gallon, the inch 

 of rainfall or water on an acre weighs 

 1131 tons, or 226,164 pounds, equal to 

 to 72,.51li tons per square mile of 640 

 acres. 



What, you owe on the Treh anh Vine 

 for back subscription can be canceled 

 and the paper secured for another year 

 by sending liftv cents before .lune I'ltli. 



Owing to the presence of President 

 Roosevelt in Los Angeles on the Sth 

 inst, which was to have been the last 

 day of the Fruit (Irowers' convention, 

 the programme of the conventions was 

 condensed and only three days' session 

 held, instead of four as at first intended. 



Not one person in ten appreciates the 

 meaning of an inch of rain, or the amount 

 of water that nuist be supplied artificially 

 to e(iual such a rainfall, .says the Hol- 

 lister Free Lance. One inch of rainfall 



We desire to call the attention of our 

 readers once more, and for the lagt time, 

 to our special offer on subscriptions. We 

 have been making an effort to get every 

 one paid in advance, and to do this have 

 offered to cancel all back indebtedness 

 and send the Tree and Vine another 

 year upon receipt of fifty cents. Most of 

 our subscribers have taken advantage of 

 this generous proposition, but a few yet 

 remain delinquent. To these we will say 

 that half a dollar, as above mentioned, 

 will pay all the old account and give you 

 the paper for a year in advance. This 

 offer closes June 1.5, and the subscription 

 price will then be strictly adhered to. 

 Better take the trouble to send the fifty 

 cents without delay, otherwise you may 

 forget it. Don't hesitate on taking ad- 

 vantage of this special offer, for your ac- 

 ceiitance of it will be regarded by us as 

 a favor. 



The delights of the fruit garden are 

 great. The fruit garden is not desirable 

 only to the ruralist but is equally so to 

 the villager and the city man. Learn 

 how to make a fruit garden and how to 

 enjoy it. You will enjoy it more and 

 more as the years go by. When you get 

 old and infirm you will enjoy it most of 

 all, since it will call j'ou cut into the 

 healthful fresh air and sunshine, and 

 keep you there admiring the beauties of 

 the place, and the attractions of the 

 ripening fruit, or the trees in blossom. 

 We neeil something to keep us continu- 

 ally out in the open air. If the fruit 

 garden is attractive to the parent how 

 much more so is it to the children. .\ll 

 humanity enjoys fruits, but most of all 

 do the children enjoy them and delight 

 in them. Children never will forget the 

 home of their younger days. If it is a 

 bleak and barren place they will remem- 

 ber it; if it is bright and cheery, sur- 

 rounded wiih many attractions, the 

 thought of this early home will be one of 

 the bright spots in their lives. Few 

 things can do more to brighten a home 

 or to add to its attractiveness to the old 

 people and the young people than the 

 fruit garden. 



To Wine Growers. 



Large consumer of claret of New ^'c)rk 

 City desires to correspond with party 

 owning winery' regarding making claret 

 for the Eastern market. Address, B. P., 

 Tree and I'ine. 



Yellow Jackets Beneficial 

 lireak open a yellow jacket or a mud 

 dauber's nest, and you will find all the 

 cells tilled with caterpillars or spiders, in 

 most cases caterpillars. At the bottom 

 of the sell will be found either the egg 

 or the grub of the wasp. The caterpillars 

 are put in there to supply the little wasjjs 

 with food. By some peculiar process a 

 Huid is injected into the caterpillars 

 which preserves their lives, but suspends 

 animation, so the young wasp grub al- 

 ways has abundance of fresh food, and 

 just enough for him to eat to get his 

 growth. When it is all eaten the wasp 

 passes through the pupa stage, then 

 comes forth a full tledged wasp and 

 starts in catching and ' preserving 

 caterpillars for the next generation. The 

 yellow jackets are also death on horse 

 flies, which they capture, decapitate and 

 remove the wings from, in short order, 

 and then fly off with the body. We have 

 seen it stated that they also prey upon 

 the codlin moth, which they may, but in 

 any event they are predaceous and 

 pugnacious little chaps and get away 

 with a great many of our detrimental in- 

 sects. 



Of late years California Privet has been 

 given first place as a hedge plant for di- 

 viding the village or city grounds, and 

 for marking lines; etc. This plant is al- 

 most an evergreen, the foliage at Roch- 

 ester, N. Y., holding on nearly all win- 

 ter. It is hardy here, but may not be 

 hardy further north than Rochester. It 

 makes a beautiful plant when grown 

 alone as well as when grown i.i hedge 

 form. It has a beautiful white blossom 

 something like a white lilac. The hedge 

 should be cut back with trimming shears 

 at least once every season. The best 

 time for pruning is in the spring, before 

 growth begins. 



An Easy Way to Clear Land 

 Some genius up north, and we will 

 warrant that it is the same fellow that 

 grafts his trees upside down to produce 

 Seedless fruit, has hiton a very neat way 

 to get stumjis out of his land. Any of 

 our readers who believe him may try it 

 for themselves. lie has a portable fen;e, 

 which he can move around without in- 

 convenience, and he incircles a stump 

 with it, placing within the inclosure two 

 of his biggest hogs. Then he goes to 

 work with a crowbar and makes some 

 holes around the stump, tilling the holes 

 w ith corn or oats or buckwheat, what- 

 ever he has handy, and the animals get 

 in their work. In the course of a few 

 days the hogs have so rooted the dirt 

 from the stump that it is an easy job to 

 tip it over and take it away. 



