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h ar vested t>t $14 -.00 per acre, which with our average yield makes 

 this actual cost of the cassava only ab »ut $2.00 p t ton, on which 

 basis the relative profit of feeding the same pigs, .vouU have been 

 three times greater than appeu's in this estimates of the table." 



" Fattening Beef upon cassava —The r suit of the feeding was an 



actual profit of 59.10 per cent, on an investment for 75 days 



" The market value of the beef was teste 1 by three judges, b^ef fed on 

 c ssavawas marked " first choice" while beef fed on corn meal and 

 cotton-seed products, respectively, were given second and third choice. 

 " This judgment was demonstrated as meeting practical approval in 

 the market, where purchasers invariably called for the cassava fed 

 beef and preferred the same in preference to that from the other two lots." 



I have the honour to be, 

 Sir, 



Your Obedient Servant, 

 The Honourable, Kobert Thomson. 



The Colonial Secretary, 

 Kingston. 



THE ORANGE IN SOjTHERN CALIFORNIA.* 



By J. W. Jeffrey, of Azusa. 



The south has practically settled upon two varieties as the standards 

 for general cultivation. The first in importance is the Washington 

 Navel. I'ublic sentiment, both from the growers' and from the con- 

 sumers' standpoint, has always given this orange the preference The 

 tendency of this variety to sport back to worthlessness, and the 

 consequent mistakes of the early propagators in their selection of stock 

 from which to grow trees, are the only valid arguments that have ever 

 been used against the general adoption of this orange. Later years 

 have shown th t a typical tree once established will always remain so, 

 and that has thrown the burden of purity of stock upon the nursery- 

 men. Planters understand this s > thoroughly that they now spend 

 more time in the selection of their nurserymen than formerly, and the 

 younger orchards are coming to maturity with a minimum of "sports" 

 and in many cases a full complement of typical trees. Tens of 

 th usands of d liars have been spent in budding-over off-quality 

 Washington Navel trees, but the progress of to-day recognizes very 

 little necessity of starting an orchard subject to this fault. Perhaps 

 these weaknesses in this variety have caused its utter failure in 

 Florida, and this may be another case of compensation. At least it 

 is not a cause of anxiety upon the part of California growers. 



The other standard orange is the Valencia Late, a somewhat seeded 

 variety, and hence not subject to the inconstancy of the Navel, and 

 rarely if ever missing in tvpical quality through the faults of the 

 parent tree. This orange, in a few loca ities. vies with the Navel for 

 supremacy of acreage, but generally is of small importance in the crop 

 totals. It is not prepossessing in colour, it is uniform in quality, size, 

 and productiveness, and could it be shipped skinless would sell better 

 upon its colour, texture, and solidity. 



* Proceedings of Twenty-eixth Fruit Growers' Convention of California, 

 December, 19U1. 



