olive trees than to the vine, and there is "case ol a tree who*e existence is so very 

 hardly any danger from that source, long and the rearing of wh'ch requires 

 The loots of the olive tree, like those of years, would prove disastrous. 

 the vine, should be able to extract sufli- Whatever doubts may arise as to the 

 cient moisture from the sub-soil, Irriga- practicability of trials of giving room in 

 tion, except on soil that is not naturally one's farm to a certain number of olive 

 adapted to their culture, where there is trees, do not despise it. Set out a few, 



Agricultural Information from 

 , , Lower California. 



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ouvr.s. 



Mv trees r" of rooted cuttings and 

 stubs of branches from o'ive-'ree* of 



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great scarcity of liquid nutriment, is not for it will in any case be a pleasont thing j , icinity exco t tllose p l antm l in 

 necessary; on the contrary you may give to rear the salad 01 and pickle .your 188() hi - 



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ftn ftj)(1 Uw!W B1Jro j lts w ,, re 

 *>... In former Y* aw 



are aM to Lave riilded 

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the hea 



T bo y 

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. ( . ^ from Loret(>i and ttp . 



the olive trees space on hillsides where olives for your own household. A him- rel);1 of t .U common kind growing 

 the surface is apparently poor if there is dred years ago foreign priests set a splen- V t; ^ California Slissious. In 

 only nourishment deeper down. In any did example in trying to acclimatize the ]f<70 } f , ()n th(j 0<t . ltc twfilve tn%es 

 case, we should get our plants from parts olive trees in California. We are enjoy- , hundred years, which 



that are similar ; m their namr, to our own. ing the fruit of the few plantations at & . j, t fi ui ( f - t 



When I mentioned, hut over-production the Mismons It was a slmme t:,at the^ 1 ^ ^^ Ono Rt 



or want of an outlet might bring about successors of the Mission fathers did not 

 a crisis -in southern European olive-pro- imitate those early arrivals and that "< 

 ducing countries, the advice to propapate hundreds of olive orchards did not salute 

 the o,?ve tree, and without fe.r of over- those who came over thirty years ago t ,, 

 doing it, might appear rattier hazardous. | .,k for something different from fri.it> ! 

 Hut ft seems that there is hardly a greater of the tree. Bin it is not to be excused 

 danger in that respect than there is in tlmt the intelligent grape fanner, whn 

 overdoing grape-growing. A m-rchan- tla s seen his efforts with that fruit crownd f '" 

 dise that constitute* a daily necessity with splendid success should n-fflect 

 may hardly be over-produced, or dele fruit of equal rank, of equal productive- 

 riorate, or lose its chance of >eing sold. ne s and profit. Do not let .your grand- 'j. ;, 

 The greater fear may !>; a lower and un- children smile at vour indifference to- .;,.<.; 

 remulierable price. It may be delayed wards a fruit tllllt fc sure to yield mil- J ^ " J' 

 in being sold, and next it wou,d be con- lio , s to future Californians. ^,W and 



sidered a great loss it a geueralN remu- To finish up let me tell you that the , d t! , ore is ROUlrk fruit Qf 7Q 



uerative price sl.oald be reduced to one value of a full grown olive orchard say >I:vated in 1 880 oniy eleven came into 



1(10 i)l-iiiti>d' in 1881 onlv ton 

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91 Tto 

 ^re i 20 fee? 



uH,,tp t \ 30 oii"e. of 

 gfm mated, and 



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rational 

 creation 



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much lower. Economy in the cost ot after the trees are a dozen years old, HI } ;f 



production would be the next protection southern Europe ranges from $10 to *1G * 

 But, like wine, oil hus the property of per tree. Should iu value be less in *& 

 keeping and imoroviau W i*h ago. We California if the plantation is well con- * 1' 

 are not immediately -affected by a aecliue ditioncd? A thousand trees not occupy- '' " e 

 inthe priSe of olive oil, for, having a ing aMjiiM^t^bji! 

 protective duty_on foreign oil, as long as year) Ba a hundred will be a 

 the law .imposing it is vigorous y en- addition to a property and its 

 forced there will be no great tear ot being probably not regretted. 

 undersold in the United States. And as f^~ The Hardy Olive. 

 the number of consumers will not dim- ****1* 

 uish fifty millions of inhabitants will 

 have among them millions of consumers 

 of olive oi?, had we plenty to supply 

 the:- with. Xot many years ago, when 

 ,,etr. >om the United States began 



toappC southern Eurouean ports and 



by reason., its cheapness at once drove 



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Inve , f ,to ilt'.rnate v an 



a a ,,i "o The root o 

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low a:id they present rather tho aspect 

 of s'mii'H than of trees, having branch- 

 es at ;\ Mnall liight above the ground. 

 Tlie strong northerly winds of tho 



A St. Holena'oorraspon'ToBt Ttlio is winter souson Io<i ino to keep the trees 

 with oliva culture in Europe, i" that way. The cuitinps planted in 

 to the <'all as follows: tlie last year hurt a lonuth of 15 inches, 



view of tho expectation that olives those from- J*irct.o of 20 inches. I do- 

 in a few yeitrs form an important-prived, Vjimng ^trcc*, from the roore 1 

 in our production--, a few facts Vuttin/jso 1 f'flieir tvigs ! seems to have 

 in relation to their market rr.lne mar b-Mi an injurious proceeding, as 



the common illuminating oil out of the P ro 'ntor^tinsr. The real Tala. of those on winch the branches were 

 kitchen and parlor lamp, an alarm spread ood " ' r .f*' 1 oil. by the car- K*l*l. do well 



. nlive irrowers who reasonably K or in considerable quantities for ei- Mr. F. P. informs Dr. Eron Borstal 

 ^^^^ri^^^\^^t% 9 ^^'^V. *!*> to *200 per that according to Kllwood Cooper's 

 p,odnce That t ley em *-l es after a J. wi 'i> !, * <?" bo,rd. 'Ibis rule, none of the shoots of first year's 



proou *."~ J 'T7. .=,..... :.... briri.j* the pound of olive oil to about grov. th should be disturbed, as 



nine cents, if place;! in competition bv taking tliein awuv the growth 

 r with oil producing countries. ' About of the roots will be affected. 

 I .ton pounds .of o&vos bmng required for Cuttings from my neighboi-- 

 ^ ona of oil, tho value of one pound of hood planted by "me brought 

 'olives is less thin one csnt. CV.cuUt- forth leaver; these dried up, began to 



coal oil, did not diminish the consumer 



dropping of the value of the latter, 

 expected surplus, the reality of over 



>nvj v^yuv. V^.1O H 1<U~ lOilll IBikV tSO | V1H3O13 **4 * **i J >'-pjM" 



^ r p ro . in S ; values by the price of the imported! grow strain and died again. I planted 



duction never took place, and I have the ftrt '* c ' e arriving in bottles, being gur- in Deoemi'er and January; probably 



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word ot a man forit whohas beendoincr e!l * r d with duty , freight, commission, October and November would have 

 an export business in olive oil for many to -! and . 1>ein K taT>i'iee governing the been tl10 - nlore Hin >ro P riate l'ln nti "g 

 years in Greece, that the conjunctures of rniA market, the result is much months. My olives grow on even land 

 the world's markets for that article have m r ? * t'^.'ctory than the producer. o f manifold 'formations, mostly of al- 

 for a dozen or more years never allowed , ' making up the bmigf-i for the l uv ium from tho monntains. The 

 the accumulation of the crops of more u- 11 ',?' *, Cil ari '.' Tln i? at tlle figure* eA mountains consist of horizontal strata 

 than one year An article seems pretty 1 , w ponbly toll it O f saii.lstc me and calcareous formations. 



solid in the commercial world which ' a when we have to depend /en Quite near i found plastic loam, and 



finds a de.aand equal to the supply for a ' market, planters, will asi tlie BO JI nml .,. the coast strongly iinpl-eg. 



period of several veurs. Practical growers wba ' ". Devalue of olive oil iu the ,,^0.1 with salt. The placed land con- 



saipping centar* of Europe, and sists , nrtK tly of light soiL sometimes at 

 what is the lowsat prioe_^i_jikwib it a j,,-,.- depth having a solid crust of 



nrth. uu other places at - or. 3 feet 



ractical g 



will bo able to inform us if even one-half 

 the present price ol California olive oil 

 would not be remunerative. I should 

 say that - ven one-third the present price, 

 -ewiU be greater WiJeso 

 .. .,,:ed will pay the economical 

 .farmei, rided he ha., taken heed to 

 'plant the proper variety of trees that 

 ' yield Hinia sure crop. There may not 

 bf fortunes in the article it prices go to 

 their proper level. But then the expense 

 of the cultivation of the olive tree is but 

 slight, and it may not be recessary to do 

 things on a scale of many hundreds of 

 'acres; quite tlie contrary, the time of 

 (experimenting with the many varieties 

 of olive plants, which may extend over a 

 generation, should rather be employed 

 in moderate planting on the part of 

 many, in fact by every one who can, in 

 order to avoid mistakes, which in the 



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L iac at i or 



" '1'PtU ly" of sand and stone. At 10 

 J l 10 ipth under stone and li.no 

 fwmations and clay sand with 



Bto " ci ? watt ' r ls foun ' 1 ' the (1ept , h 

 lts race varying aceord- 



and other 



;>low: ;hat tU trees require litlla culti- , 



vation; that the oil is an article that.? , -., 



can I.- stored and become morn T;llll . ig to the distance from the sea. N (-ar- 

 able with age Thus boiii" fi-ea fromi pr to tlie SC1V thc nlasslve tinlst - pobab- 

 the inconvenience that attend or . b' i^"t'l with hard-pan is more 

 dinary fruits, oil is a safe investment pronounced. In the interior of onr 

 " produced in superabundance, L' e ", lrt !" ?, * _"" .^MJ?,"* .^ 



I 



that 



States and consumers "are rapidly "liven nre more sncc(>SMfully grown in 

 growing in nuuii ' s il containing salt than in soil f-ee of 



online contents. 



Home years ago I received some oil 

 grown at Muleji, which according to 

 tho opinion of experts was of very goo^' 



w h n produced in iuperabimdaao* l> ftn oves are sa no o 

 ant j ovor production is out of the quea- wel1 - wuile llt L rcto !1 <1 Mulegi ther 

 tion, esptfoiftlly in a counter where pop- are trees tiiat bear abundant fruit, 

 uhition increases as in the United nm - v l ^ ei l uce from my observations tha 



