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three years on liis place a few miles north, of San Ber- 

 nardino, and that the locality was the home of the olive. 



Several hundred one-year-old Nevadillo and Manza- 

 nillo trees were planted in this vicinity three years ago, 

 on rather dry, sandy land ; they have had no irrigation, 

 but have made a fine growth, and are in bearing this 

 year. The late Professor Klee had Nevadillo four years 

 old in bearing last year in the Santa Cruz mountains. 



The San Juan Company of Capistrano have three- 

 year-old trees bearing. 



No e':cj:>en8ive Macninery nor exjjerienced Workmen 

 required to mc/he Oil and PicMes. 



A neighbour of mine who was wholly inexperienced 

 in the business made the crop of 300 trees into oil and 

 pickles ; the oil took the first premium at the Citrus 

 Fair in Los Angeles ; the pickles sold for 75 cents to 

 §1*25 per gallon wholesale in Los Angeles; the crop 

 netted over S2000. The machinery used cost less than 

 §100. 



• Numerous instances might be cited where the olive 

 crop has been converted into oil and pickles by cheap 

 and simple means by persons without previous ex- 

 perience. 



Though oil and pickles may be made on the place 

 where the fruit is grown by the average man at small 

 cost for machinery, when olives are grown in sufficient 

 quantities, persons will erect manufacturing works and 

 buy the crops as other fruit is bought by the canning 

 companies. (Cooper.) 



The late Prof. AY. G. Klee, of the Experiment G-rounds 



