Fruit Fanning for Profit in California. 8 1 



Tlie beginner will naturally ask, " Wliat assurance 

 have I that my investment will be permanent as well 

 as proritable ? What are the causes that make Cali- 

 fornia superior to other States of the Union as a fruit- 

 producer ? Will not other portions of the Union enter 

 into competition with us and overstock the market and 

 thus make my investment unprofitable and my labour 

 a failure ? " 



These doubts will quickly disappear with a know- 

 ledge of our advantages." These are the climate, 

 geographical position and physical peculiarities. 

 While descriptions of California's climate have become 

 hackneyed, it is nevertheless the one great cause of our 

 superiority as a fruit section, and our climate depends 

 upon our geographical position. Lying in the direct 

 course of the great Japanese current, which comes laden 

 with the warmth of the tropics and flows along the 

 greater length of our coast, California is never subject 

 to those extremes of temperature so fatal to the more 

 tender fruits in the Eastern States. 



The uniform dry weather in the picking season gives 

 superior opportunities for picking and drying, enabling 

 our fruit growers to cure their fruit in the open air at 

 a minimum of cost. These are but a few of the reasons 

 for our superiority as a fruit section. They are advan- 

 tages possessed by no other State, and advantages 

 which we can never lose. Our geographical position, 

 too, gives us the world for a market, and while with 

 the continually increasing population of the East we 

 have a steadily increasing home market, we also ship 

 large quantities of our fruit to Australia, China and 

 Japan. With the United States and the rest of the 



