78 Fmit Fanning for Profit in California. 



The former gentleman has an orchard of 33 acres of 

 magnificent young trees in bearing, which this year will 

 produce 12 tons, valued at §1700. Mr. Gilman's crop 

 amounts to 30 tons, and was sold a couple of weeks ago 

 for $4200. The rest of the crop hereabouts comes from 

 small orchards and from trees aligning the roadway, and 

 will go probably to 125 or 130 tons all told. At 7 cents 

 per pound, the crop will thus bring into this section 

 the snug sum of $18,200. The output, moreover, is 

 being increased constantly by the addition of young 

 trees coming into bearing, and next year will un- 

 doubtedly be much larger than this season. New 

 orchards are being set out on an extensive scale, the 

 total new area amounting to 2000 or 3000 acres. The 

 big walnut grove below town, containing 600 acres, the 

 largest walnut orchard, by the way, in the world, is 

 coming on nicely, and will in a few years be good for 

 several hundred tons of nuts. 



Mrs. Thurston, the oldest orchardist in Aliso Valley, 

 ships about five tons of walnuts per annum from one 

 acre of nuts, and grown without irrigation, 



Mr. Mendelson, of Capistrano, got $1700 off six acres 

 soft shell walnuts, 9 or 10 years old, this year, 1892, 



" J. C. Sheppard, of FuUerton, has a walnut tree 

 three years old from the seed, the trunk of which is now 

 twenty-three inches in circumference. We would be 

 pleased to hear from any one who can beat it." — 

 Anaheim Gazette, That is easily done ! John Cubben 

 who owns a splendid Eanche about 1^ miles south-east 

 of the Santa Ana post-office, has a walnut tree three 

 years old that measures 28 inches full in circumference, 

 and has never been irrigated. 



