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set every year; peaches and plums the same. All varieties that we have 

 tried do well. Fruit is not raised in our district for profit, consequently 

 all fruits have the same relative value. If fruits were more extensively 

 raised the most profitable ones would be apples, peaches, plums, pears, 

 prunes, cherries, and grapes. 



FRUITS IN GENERAL CULTIVATION. 



Apple. — Winter Pearmain (bear every second year), Yellow Newtown 

 Pippin (bear every two years), Rhode Island Greening (every two years), 

 Roxbury Russet, Smith's Cider, Spitzenberg, Red June, Baldwin, Yellow 

 June, Golden Sweet, and other summer apples, all of which do well, and 

 are as good as found in the country. 



Peach. — We have such a variety of peaches that I cannot enumerate 

 them by name, but all kinds do remarkably well and grow large, with a 

 good flavor, and by having a great variety peaches are almost a sure crop. 



Pear. — The same remarks that apply to peaches will apply to pears; 

 also, the varieties we have tried do remarkably well. 



Cherry. — Cherries are not so extensively grown, but so far as tried do 

 very well. 



Plum. — Plums of all kinds are very prolific, and mature thoroughly, and 

 are almost a sure crop every year. 



Prune. — Prunes do well here, but they have not been planted very exten- 

 sively up to the present time. 



Fig. — Figs have not been tried. 



Table Grape. — Grapes of different kinds are now fruiting and doing well, 

 but the hardy varieties do the best. We never have found any mildew on 

 them anywhere in this county. 



Small Fruit. — Raspberries do very well, as also blackberries; but the 

 wild ones are of much better flavor, and they grow so extensively that there 

 is not much use planting other kinds. 



Report of H. Schlomer, North Fork. 



We have here the best kind of fruit, and plenty of it, but there is very 

 little sale for it; to send it down below there is too much expense on it. I 

 will give you, as near as I can, the amount of it in this school district. 

 There is little sale for it this year. I am drying as much fruit as I think 

 I can sell; balance of fruit is fed to hogs. We have green apples all the 

 year round. The fruits chiefly grown here are apples, peaches, pears, 

 plums, and grapes. 



Report of C. Frink, Lewiston. 



This district is a mining district, and for this reason fruit culture has 

 not been given much attention; however, various orchards have been 

 planted in a small way, mostly for home consumption, and are doing quite 

 well. In sheltered localities, apples, peaches, plums, prunes, cherries, 

 grapes, and small fruits are growing, but only for home market. 



VENTURA COUNTY. 



Report of R. Robinson, Ojai. 



Our valley is in the upper part of the "Ojai." We have no irrigation, 

 and do not require it for the fruit we raise. My orange trees have been 

 bearing two or three years and have done very well without any irrigation; 



