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Caring for .BearinR Orchards- (cont.) 



Calendar of Operations : 



Pruning : Deceir';er, January or February tc head in and 



she;pe tree. 



Fertilizing: Very little done, cover crops sometimes grovm. 



Cultivation: February cr March. Plowed and cross plowed, worked 



down, crop cultivated 4-6 times until July, 



Fumigating : None 



Thinning Fruit: Not much thinning done. 



Spraying ; December - February, lime sulphur or oil emulsion 



February - April, Bordeaux mixture when cluster buds 



begin to part. 

 April 1 - June, Arsenate of lead and Bordeaux 



mixture, when fruit is set and petals 

 full. Repeated 10 to 20 days later. 



Harvest- 



Time : Bartlett- June 15 - September 15 

 Nelis -, September. 



Method : Picked green by hand into canvas picking bags and transferred 



to lug boxes. Trees gone over 2 to 5 

 . ... times. 



Preparing for Market: ■ 



Canning : Delivered in lug boxes 



Dried : Cut ii: half, stem, calyx, ajid wormy cores removed, 



dried on trays in sun for l/2 day, then 

 trays stacked a.nd fruit permitted to com- 

 pletelycuring, sulphured. 



Green : Packed in 40# boxes, measuring 8 l/2" x 11 l/2" x 



19 3/4"; contains' actually 46# fruit, gross 

 51# or 52#; 165 pears to box most desirable, 



^ of Different Grades- 10;5^ culls. 



Alameda, La]:e, Nevada, Placer, Sacr.amonto , Santa Clara, 

 Solano and Sonoma Counties. 



