Au Olive "Tnliprliunco. 



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An 

 tlinn 

 cheaper. 



stocK. and alt. r a croSe" look nt many parts , , ... th : t r-ic i * 



of it, never see a single weed, evra by the T** 6 " th ll ' ' s UOt that of a careful 



" an ' 



o , never see a sne wee, vra y e rr , . 



olive (-rove is a b.-ttcr inheritance roadside. That was a mil surprise; bt " 2?, , an ' lne P atlel >ce of the plan- 

 fi life-insurance policy, and much the astonishing thini; to see -was his olive ter ll ' Je am P'y compensated by the 

 _____ f . jr. A grove of ten acres of seven- ovchurd. of about 50 acres, all the tr.es knowledge that each olive tree, even if it 

 ytor-oltl trees will produce a net annual in- dean, hi nlthy mid stnmg growers, the Wl1 ' n . (>t J'ield much tribute to him who 

 come of not less thun $2,500, or mi average bpuiches bendi ' 



. ngwith th'i -'mormons weight 8^ v e it the first care, is a monument of 



of $250 per acre, as has been fully demon- | the fruit, many of ;tb<- seven-year tiees his love for his descendants, who wi 1 

 strated by Mr. Elwood Coejper. of Sauta hiving a full barrel to the tree, the larger probably after many generations, when 

 Barbara, and by the lessee of the WolfskiH n i ne , llu j ten-yt at-okl trees having on them he will have lieen forgotten, unwittingly 

 [grove, in Solano county. Strange as it two barrels of olives apuco. On the other enjoy his bounty. Need a modest man's 

 may seem, but few pa-sous have yet given ihani, in S;<nta U;nbara, trees much oldei ambition go further? Or is it manly to 

 any serious attention to the subject of olive, ! will not produce a hatful to the tree, ami l, )o k only to immediate pay for one's acts 

 Uture. It is not because there is any un- simply because thy are not kept free from o f merit > DistH!lt as we are from ,,, 

 c.itaiuty about the growth of the tree, for the black scale, uor properly pruned a<J wnere th(J o , ive t has f thousands , )f 



rape laud, cultivated, lor example, near Mayor t\j ., ... . . .. 



/because nald's ou the ,outh, is a block with .tv * ^ '^n a familiar sight and part of 

 three acr.s o' oliv.> trees .on it, ww o the wealth of generations, working to- 

 ground on which *ey stand is a < ' I'getherin the same line with nations in 

 tur, ; the, tre' s are fruit U :ss and wo ^L?!"t climates tlwt>like ours, allow them to 

 and near the lighthouse m-^re than ' K beneflt from * lie privilege of growing 

 tre -s, about ten years old., have just beet '* ve8 ' Do we march in line with them, 



r _.. dug up finel cut into ftrewood. All (j,;, or are we remaining behind? The profits 



olive oil of commerce, and California is the n t g ect and d structlou around Santa Bur- Spain, Italy, France uiid other countries 

 only portion of the United States adapted bara would ">>< ixce>dir.gly discouragejng are derivinst from the fruit of the olive 

 to the growth of the olive. The demand | ha 1 not Mr. Elwood Cooper couragousls tree amount 'f6 hundreds of millions of 

 always exceeds the supply of both olive oil set hinmi li to work to destroy the scale bun doHars annually . Algiers, that country 

 and piakled olives. The market can never inst -:.d of the tree, and lie is now rewarded In which SJench vintners reconstruct 

 be over-stocked, and with the advance of with the astonishing orop hanging 011, h their forties, jeopardized or lost by that 



i constantly > , and just ivady for th, oil mill. drea dful anAny of the vines, where viti- ' 



ity can b O.ir renders ,-re aware that abanvl of olives !,, ,p,k * 



it grows like a willpw on good grape 

 and without irrigation; nor is it 

 the market is uncertain, nor the managi 

 meut of the crop difficult. The price is 

 steady and always remunerative, and the 

 producer has the world for a market. 

 3 >u;hern Fraaca, Italy, Spain and Asia 

 Minor now produce about all tho olives and 



civilization, the consumption is 

 increasing. No greater security 

 given for the investment of money, in any 

 enterprise, tnan olive culture affoids in 

 Culiforuia. It is, therefore, well worth 

 while to call the attention of the patrons of 

 the Ktsourees of California to this most 

 attractive and promising industry. 



Laud can be purchased iu a dozen dif- 

 fi r, nt counties in this State, which is per- 



will produce about four "i 

 worth five dollars a gnllon, or i 

 lars to the Well ladeu tree seven 



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. ' 



; s culture 1 Ippest has only begun, has 

 'slo grapes in a dozen years 

 i- than we have done in thirty. Spain and 

 '"*"' Italy are beginning to realize the rivalry 



years old. As Mr. Cooper has published that in Algiers has sprung up as to the 

 in th se columns his method of dealiuf cultivation of olives. So much so that a 

 wiih the great enemy of the' olive, thl crisis is feared in the great producing 

 black scale, it is only necessary to say hero countries named, for official statemeats 



f-ctly adapted to tbe olive tree, for if HO to that he uses a force pump fixed on a box give us the fact that of the eight million 

 $100 an acre. Cuttings cau be obtained at _placed in a wagon, to throw a strong decoc. dollars' worth of the product of the olive 

 $10 a hundred, or $100 for ten acres, sine.- tion of tobacco into the tops of his trees, tree which Prance annually requires from 



the ground ne,d not exc.ed $5 an acre, and in the most substantial manner,' whi b in the back g round - 



To sum up the coat of t.n acr, s. we have is capable of reducing 4,000 pounds of olives W ,f P " ?Se8S tllC J neces , 9ar y elements in 



laud$l,OJO; cuttings $100; plowing and every tweuty-four hours, wili be run day Callfornla to produce olives, and every 



planting, $100; total expenditure $1,200 and night for a week at a time, until his one knows . tllat for .purity and good, 



tor the ten acres. In four years the crop will crop for tba year has been turned into oil. 



pay nil e-xpen.ses of lillug and harvesting, Let olive skeptics go and see the olives and 



and the tilth year a profit of at least :j>lo pliye trees at Elwood. 



an acre. Thus we only need to provide for VINEYARD AND ORCHARD. 



the cost of tillage the second and third years, 



which is ?5 an acre each year, or $100 for This department will be dnvotcd to the inter- 



the two years; and hence the actual outlay it? nf th" Vn.-iiiu.riftg and Horticulturists of 



before auvreturns are available will be but i^. 'cJrV^de^ 'oWtt* 



$130 anacTPrefcf 1,300 for an olive grove j ecl IB united. Address all corre-spondence 



of ten acre's. The incomo lor the fifth yeal in care of THE REPUBLICAN. Xnrery and seeds- 



will average $25 an acre above all expenses, me^wonld favor 11 



or $250 for ten acres; and for the sixth i+- /i*Asi\it 



year more than twice that sum, or more w oi.rvK-an 



than $50 an acre. ' In other -rords, in sin The writer shares the opinion of the 



owiSO I* CALIFORNIA. 



sound quality our olive oil is an article 

 of commerce eagerly sought after and 

 preferred to importations often suspected 

 and always so charged with duty and ex- 

 penses that it is inaccessible to the small 

 purchaser. On the merits of olive oil as 

 part of our diet I need not dwell. Once 

 accustomed to it for certain table par 

 poses, it will become a necessity to many, 

 and even if with the abundance of nour- 

 ishing and good fatty substances which 

 Providence has provided the United 

 States with, not called to become the 

 staple which oliye oil is in Southern 



years the ten-acre olive grove will pay fo immense importance of olive-culture with , 



its.lf and leave a surplus of one-half the lneu W , IO , far better authority than Europe, it will b,- evident to every one 

 original cost; and the crop of the seventh mygelf , the matttr . The late Mr.Red- that when produced in quantities in Call- 

 year, as before stated, will give a net profit ^ ]eft tQ UaliforDiang the patri otic fornla - lt W1 'l fl d numerous buyers and 

 of *250 an acre, or $2,500 for the ten acres. cxh = nation to ]ook abom them / or prop . consumers, i he present high price, of 

 The crop of the eighth year will largely in- . , . , . , ., i _ . * . course, need not be counted Uj)on m the 

 crouse over tbat of thosevemfc^^d will M -* f #i i ^ OU S run ^ ut where it is produceil, there 

 gradually increase from year to^ea?^ gentleman s_ hopes of t h= i .tree _ and i , where P - 



;, *^^ , r, /M- fifteen vpnr more ' iruit becoming in no distant tuture as . <= 



alter lor ten or nueeii yturb iuvic. e, , .. a nted the farni s value is enhance'! 



Could a better or safer inheritance for] rich a source of income, and surely a not 

 the children of a man in moderate circumj less solid one than the vine and its grape, 

 stancis be named, even in the rich Statei -will be fulfilled. We can be certain of it. 

 of California? 

 mind that I 

 There are < 

 b: 1 over twel 



l^l fraiteve !'ftT!a/ 1 SSJ!S^^^^'%^ "r ,<"< 



Mr. 6^e^v^ard. we can Uke for granted V not every ^^^g^to* 



oug wlio puts olive plants into the grouno . 



The Santa Barbara Press gives in. fol- will , in tne few y Ls generaHy said to ^^ f " ^ ^ ^ ^^ 



is 



There are many kinds of olive trees, 

 the subject shoulel be studied which 

 variety turns out to be best adapted to 



The Santa aarDara J. M- will, in tlie tew years generally si u . pj 



lowing interesting statement, concerning e [ a p se uu til the commencement of bear- j. 

 the operations of Ehvood Cooper's olive in- inf ^ reap t h e retrom as abundant crops ^ Q ^ ( [; 



B . M. to E.wood, Mr. Cooper', ^^.S 1 ?^. ^ JlV'^fiSSSto < U ^ of ^^ 



, ... ... planters 

 On a recont tvtp to Uwood, Mr. Coop< 

 f iiria, twelve miles west of Santa Barbara, 

 a general surprise .awaited us. There 

 could be no room for doubt that Mr. Cooper . - 

 had Veenv.ry euccess'ul in the manage,- attention 

 meut. of his farm of 2,000 acres, as the four- the climate 

 1, ,,, wa.-on-loaels of Kn K l,sh valnuts ana the matter thought and 

 a lu.oodsoming into town recently from a proportionate number 

 his place avu abundant cvidenj*; tut we or roots, were it only onjhe i ladside 01 



such 



trei 



in 



period. 



derived by the olive after the grape has 

 been turned into must and fermented into 

 winu will render it. pretty safe to ripen, 

 Hllhou<rh the winter rains and lower tem- 



less hurtful to the ifuneral varieties of 



