THE KADOTA FIG 25 



In speaking of the prospects of this fig we must base our statements and 

 expectations upon its record in California during the last ten years, since it 

 was introduced and distributed. 



Advantages 



First of all, we have a fig of wonderful growing habits; it outstrips by 

 far all others. 



Secondly, we have a fig that bears in its tender infancy. From planting 

 to crop gathering is but a very few short years. 



Third, we have a fig which, under proper care and cultivation in the 

 San Joaquin Valley, ofttimes attains a size of 3 and 3J/2 inches in diameter, 

 while from about Los Angeles even larger sizes are reported. Not all the 

 figs on every tree are thus in size, neither are all the figs extremely large on 

 any other variety of fig tree. The Kadota in reality has three sizes, and each 

 has its particular market. 



Fourth, we have a fruit in demand in many markets. By that I mean 

 we have a fruit for canning and preserving in many forms, and a fig for long 

 distance shipment to the Atlantic seaboard and to population centers impos- 

 sible of fig production. 



Fifth, we have a variety here that bears a tremendous crop four and 

 one-half months every summer. The cycle of its ripening period is roughly 

 30 days, shading slightly either way according to weather conditions, the 

 first cycle being in June, the others August, September, October and Novem- 

 ber 15th. 



Sixth, this fig is now succeeding in any soil and under nearly all con- 

 ditions in the Valley where any of the older varieties now succeed, and is 

 proving as hardy under extreme cold and drouth as any of the others, and it 

 leads them all when early rains come. For rains, fog and dampness are no 

 disaster to this variety. These conditions simply retard ripening and the crop 

 awaits return of normal weather conditions and continues its ripening, until 

 the November cold closes the season. 



May be Caprified 



While this fig is primarily a green shipper and a canning and fresh 

 eating fig, second to none ever grown, yet this fact remains: So easily are 

 they caprified that a grower may fertilize his August crop, gather it as any 

 other dried fig crop, and, when the Capri wasp is no longer obtainable, he 

 may resume his green shipping for two and one-half months longer. 



As the Kadota fig has never under any circumstances been known to 

 sour, split or contain mold of any kind, the dry article is most satisfactory for 

 all purposes, and when caprified and mixed with dried Symrnas experts assure 

 me they cannot separate the varieties. 



