6 CALIFORNIA CITRUS CULTURE. 
of citrus growers, each with a erove of from five to twenty acres, and each 
rivalling the other in the care and intelligence of his management. The 
climate must be genial, for only in sueh a climate will these fruits 
thrive. Jn California, the scenery rivals the best in Switzerland, and 
the labor, never too arduous, is uniform the entire year through. The 
free, pure, outdoor air is surety for health and vigor, and a happiness 
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and comfort that ever attends honest endeavor in the field of agricul- 
ture, is nowhere more certain than to the owner of a citrus grove that is 
properly loeated and well cared for. We can not wonder then that 
citrus culture has advanced by leaps and bounds, and ean safely predict 
that the future will greatly surpass the past, and even the present, in 
its growth and production. 
CITRUS FRUIT TARIFF. 
There is a tariff of one and one half cents per pound on lemons and 
one cent per pound on oranges. The one half cent additional on 
lemons was added in 1910 and has greatly stimulated the planting 
of lemons. If this protection continues, in a few vears sufficient lemons 
will be planted to supply the entire demand of the United States. This 
is now true in the case of oranges, which have been protected by a one 
cent per pound tariff, so that now our country produces all its own 
Oranges. 
There is little doubt but that the tariff on both oranges and lemons 
will be reduced to one half cent by the present extra session of 
Coneress. 
