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already supplied should mo tn it at once I strates to u 
dial they have a local canning and drying | part nobly, 
factory. There ia money in it, large money ; battle 
n harvest that begins to yield its returns 
from the first ripening in the spring until 
tbn citrus fruits are ripe in the fall. 
Many will hesitate through fear of inability 
to reach the public taste. To them we would 
cite tin' success that some private itidivni 
unis have attained during the experimental 
limes of the Industry. It hs# been our 
good fortune to lest some of tlm fruit put 
up by tmr growers in a quiet way at their 
home*, and we do not hrsiUic to any that 
bettor goods we never sampled. Cans in 
large quantum# can be bud of our local 
tinners nt very reasonable priens, according 
to size. Two-pound can* wo will place at 
fifty cents per dozen and look for a minute 
nt the profits of tlm business To avoid 
fractions we will pat the coat of 
pound can at four ccoIm. sugar not to 
exi-nnd one cent, fanev libel three cent 
total cost eight cents. Now what will your 
goods wholesale for? A retail dealer of 
this city tells us that we may figure with 
absolute certainty on fifteen cents per can 
a* the lowest wholesale price that first eh 
goods will ever reach 
Here, then, you have seven cents for two 
pounds of fruit and the labor attending the 
canning. Seven cent# for one can, seven 
dollars for a hundred, seventy dollars per 
thousand and so on. Who would ask for 
anything better? Only be who is sitting 
around for something to turn up to make 
him rich in a day, I’oor fellow, those days 
with California arc past. The territories 
with their mining excitement tnny afford 
you the stimulus which your nature craves. 
Go, we wish you well, and when you are 
through dreaming your goldtm dream and 
wish to become a hard working humble 
rustic, return, and we will gladly arlrnit you 
to our army of workers. Individual can 
"ing we would advise only with parties 
who live remote from the large factories. 
While these canneries aru moderately 
liberal in their prices, growers would butter 
sell direct to them, then they barn llicir 
money in their pocket, and have no more 
worry or anxiety concerning their Crop. 
All that wn have said regarding canning 
will apply to drying. There lx always more 
or less fruit that is unfit for canning. Such 
•hould bu dried, nonu should bo allowed to 
waste; all will bo waniod at good prices 
be loro next season's crop comes. Nurner 
on* drying devices can bo had, some of 
them at. a nominal figure, but where money 
is scare* a little ingenuity and ambition, 
with two or Ilium dollars worth of lumbar, 
would construct a family dryer that would 
last a lifetime. 
Although our deciduous product# «r» 
liartoming almost too large to cufileinplslo, 
■till the demand absorb* thorn all and oalls 
for morn. < California canned and dried fruits 
are -’allnd for from nearly r.very quarter of 
the globe. Many orders to our personal 
knowledge, recuivcd Imre during the past 
winter, could not be filled at any price, 
Tin* industry is only in ita infancy. This 
is truly a laud of fruits, as each year demon 
in«ro clearly. Natui 
if wn do ours half a 
i. Everybody will I. 
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pleasant wn 
pocket, and our very existence 
sweeter, because all nrnund aru 
and happy. 
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faction, and there i* little danger of th# 
market being glutted in this line,— R*. 
Od ium. WoBJC.—A gentleman engaged 
- „ . ... canning fruit says it javs to pick your 
n.iliiig face and a j f r „it carefully and in firm ; if in right eon- 
late to 
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r*» because hit has coin in hi# ditlon one day, the 
ill l.o ! 
pick. 
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DEfllDtlOOfl FRUIT BUDDING. 
July and August arc the proper months 
In winch to bud deciduous trees. The 
plum generally armies first in order, other 
nrlolms follow as Ilia bark, sap and buds 
re in condition, and tho peach comes in at 
the last. 
Any sized tree may bo budded, but .is a 
rule only young trees of one year’, growth 
in nursery form an- subjected to tills opora- 
tion. The already bearing orchard, how- 
ever, may be budded with equal propriety, 
and now i» a good time to change a ponr 
fruit for n good one. In budding nursery 
trees the bud is inserted into the trunk 
four to six inches from the ground; larger 
trees receive the binl in the limbs. Buds 
are taken from brnriches or this year'i 
growth, and only the largest and finest 
hould be used. The process is so simple 
that it is hardly worth while to repent it 
here, but for fear that sornn one nose 
quaiuted with the business may peruse thi 
article we will speak of it brielly. Wlir.ii 
the terminal bud is forming oil the end ' 
•ho twigs the tree is ready for huaiuc 
Use a building knifu if you have one, if 
nut, a pooka: knife will answer. Mak> 
slit in the bark where you wish to place 
bud about bii inch lung, nt the top of the 
slit, cut square across it about half an inch, 
wiili the handle of the budding knife care¬ 
fully raise the lips of tho bark thus made and 
insert the bud, forco tho bud down to the 
bottom of tho slit, then wind with soft 
budding twine, nr any * ft twine that you 
may have, sufficiently hard to exclude the 
air. In two or three weeks tho string may 
be removed and everything left until next 
sprinp, when tho trunk should ho cut i,fl a 
few inohos above tlm bud. And later in 
the season as I lie bud progresses the trunk 
may bo trimmed off smoothly down eloso to 
the bud. Alter the bud starts in the 
spring nil oilier growth should lie broken off 
by the hand so that the full growing for 
may go to tlm bud ubiili’. lit large trees y 
pursue the same plan, save it is tho limb, 
instead of the trunk a* in tho nursery, but 
Urn process is tho same in every particular, 
IIORTIOULTUHAL NOTES. 
Ilm'lintr!*;# FlicIIa —Of course n pesah 
or paar or apricot orchard i« not so rummi 
lie na nu orange orchard, nor does it sound 
as well to write Hast about, but perhaps 
there is .in much money ill it. There is but 
oinparalively small portion of Southern 
Galibin.ia that will ox cal in the outturn of 
itriis fruits, ami it is only tho superior 
fruit that will find a profitable market, 
hilo there is hardly an aero that will not 
yiuld sumo kind of aaoltlttous fruit In per- 
. . ,n- - -. y aur b»M many times. 
hctfftll j I)o„’, try to pick all at Once. If you 
lose wrigbt If Ion ripe.it is spoiled for 
canning. Tho proper condition for apricot, 
plum, peach and nectarine is when fully 
matured, but before softening. I shal¬ 
low boxes. Shakes make good l«.»e» «nd 
arn cheap. Above all, bring to the can¬ 
nery, or *e«Ml lo tho market at the earliest 
po-sibln moment after picking. It i# not 
too lato to thin out some fruit. Tree# that 
overbear do not yield marketable fruit.— 
•'i.tiifa 11 mi Ilejiublimit. 
IhVKMV Ixiu srnii- — We are glad to 
hear that xome of our prominent farmers 
are turning their aliention to the cultiva¬ 
te something besides wheat. One 
gentleman informs ns that be has com¬ 
menced tin-, cultivation of fruit trees on a 
handsome scale, having planted »ev,. r ,| 
thousand pear and apricot trees which arc 
growing finely. Tlm climate of this county 
is favorable to fruit raising, and, with the 
exception of cherries and |*iche#, which 
would do well on ilia lowlands l>orde/lng 
the rivers, good profits could be reaped 
from orchards. Tho foothills are excellent 
for grape#, peaches and apples, ns is now 
' crilii'd by the pr. vi„ •* .. market at 
excellent fruit. The finer quality of grapes 
r.uuld be cultivated successfully by s little 
irrigation. Water in abundance can lm 
procured from well#. It is demonstrated 
hy practical grape growers that the raisin 
grape cannot be successfully cultivated 
without irrigation sufficient in fh«*i the 
ground and destroy insects which prey 
upon vines. Almost any ordinary well will 
furnish tho necessary water for sub irriga¬ 
tion, which is thu only practicable way of 
irrigating vines.—.l/.»/f*r-i //era/'/. 
Manimo Oh4 Xni Wivr Finding my- 
!f in thn midst of a bearing orange 
chard in I -os Aligsles county, and ub- 
rving large quantities of thn fruit on the 
ground Mini unmarketable, 1 concluded u> 
mnriiilaclure.A few huslwil# into wine. Pro¬ 
curing an ordinary hand “squecrer,” 1 
noiiimnnot'd operations, with the following 
result: From threw bushels of wind shaken 
orange* 1 pressed six gallons of juice, 
which I placed in a keg to undergoferuinc 
lalioii. After the expiration of iKl day* I 
drew it o||, bottled It and put it away in a 
cool plate. It i# now about iVtt days old, 
mid promises to make a very fine wine. 
It i» not iii'u-kwrj either t.. wa>h or pare 
the fruit. I simply cut the larger ones in 
two and tho end off the smaller ones. 
From my •aperient*' I am satisfied that 
one man can makn lt» gallons jver day, or 
nhal will makn M> butllr* of wine. 
There can lie no doubt that the most 
prutiisl.ln disposition we can make of 
.rang# cropui is to tnakethrun into wio*. In 
loing so the entire crop van be used, largo 
tud small,— t 'orr. J..«»/<* 
