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1 look at their fruit, and I say “all right: 
unload it; make out their freight and Land 
them their tioket;’* and they go away 
satisfied, pleased with themselves and their 
orchard and the big price paid them. 
When you plant out & fruit, orchard you 
plant for profit. For conning the following 
varieties of fruit are the best: Peaches, 
White Meath Cling, Lemon Cling and Gol¬ 
den Cling. The latter grown in the Sacra¬ 
mento valley. As to the Freestone peach, 
the early and late Crawford are the stand 
aids. Among pears the Bartlett is the most 
profitable of all other*. It is both a g<*>d 
shipping and canning pear, and is about 
the only one used by dinners. Plums, thi 
White Egg and Con's Cold Drop take the 
lead; they always command a high price in 
market. There are only two varieties of 
apricota that I would recommend for plant 
ing, viz: the Large Early and the Peach 
Apricot. Both are heavy bearer* and grow 
very largo, and are raised quite extensively 
at and near Santa Barbara by Jo»oph Se* 
ton. There is no need of any orm making 
a mistake at this late day in planting out 
an orchard. But after it is planted tak 
care of it, and do not let your trees hea. 
too heavily. Thiu them out and pick oil 
all the small fruit at an early stage and 
before it has injured the growth gf the 
larger. Then, ubove all, pick and market 
your fruit when it is just right, and you 
will be pleased with the result, and you "will 
make fruit growing profitable, have no 
reason to grub up your trees or find fault 
with the buyer. J. J. Gnoo'f. 
CROPS WITHOUT IRRIGATION. 
A writer of experience tells the San Diego 
Union that it is possible to grow large 
crops there without irrigation. Ho makes 
the following statements in the course of 
•inco the crop was put in. A vl.it 
the! fruit-grt 
puw-Mi A* ‘If 1 "’"* 1 ’ 
I . M. Rainbow, of lb* VwWweita. will «,lstatca M wall \s i 
d good* 
far toward 
convincing any one of the v 
of cultivation. The writer ha. 
ml.l 
.— —. peraonai ] were oobl to E*. 
knowledge of the faot that those trees month* after the 
never had a drop of wafer applied; thwt With a lighr fruit 
the level of the water in the well rlnw> by demand for f’ a I i T. ,- 
them, and on the same level with them, canned i. roc In— •,! 
ia twenty-three feel below the oorfac* greater than the *. 
All hi* other vor11*1 in* of fruit teens are in •i-m»nd fnr our 
a* thrifty a condition aa his oranga ircw ' Latent crop i* 
Cultivation ho* done it all. At several, uitroduetlon of 
place* in hail Hr-v-k one can see a fair 
piece of porn raised in the same way on dry 
upland, ov*r fifteen feet from water; yet 
not one piece of it ho* had omsqusrter 
of the cultivation that in Illtuoia i* ab¬ 
solutely neccMary to knap the weeds IV.;m 
killing the corn completely. 
“Mere i» an atperim*nt easily and cheap 
lv tried. Plow a small piewi nf ground r 
deeply and thoroughly; pulveri** well with potatoes <;r«*t a 
a harrow; atir the top for Ihrc* imifc*** lest the mark.'* wmil, 
every two or three week*, and aftener if' California froite * 
" large in the K*.t<,r n 
California last year, all 
i »h« hand* of porker* 
^rn dealer* within two 
rop B r~ n 
ml • 
apn 
d will greatlv i 
•t for theta, to tin 
will no doubt pro 
• thia year, 
■y dawning 
atrrage Palifnmi* farm 
devoted to the beat vai 
pay Iiwtter and prove f* 
It 
possible. Don't wait for il to bake, lh.n 
decide by a ppearan.-m that it is looee enough, 
but Mir it tinylunr. Put corn, potatoes, 
cabbages, etc., things that o*n ho worked 
between the row* and both ways. After 
cultivating tak* up the good aid weapon 
your fathers— the hoc—and work ar-urid 
the hills and close to them, too. 
" Wo have no apace to discus* the 
philosophy *of it, but it is an uncontro¬ 
vertible fact that such stirring id the top 
whether it attracts moisture from th* 
from below or do.-a both—keep* the 
ground juat below it moist. Oti the place* 
at Fall Brook above noticed we have lime 
and again in the Fall - tha driest time of 
the year here— scraped off three inch** of 
the dry top-anil and found the earth h*l..w 
damn enough to pack into a ball in the 
> day th* dm 
:. !lic auppl; 
than 
fold what it was wher 
id I 
soil- 
ad 
earn eat I v dt«.-u«e*0, 
iet should be glutted « 
•locked. In re 
tie*, where no earner! 
dished ami fruit driers 
wirtation will not pt-nnii 
fruit 
h fruit, the 
rear and nm* 
>n fruits could be 
fit, os they will U 
tie more ikifl «r 
a rash 
hia article: “If any ono would give us. free hand, and thi* io apot* twenty-five A „d f., r n 14 , 
of cost, nil irrigating stream nr an aitosian , to thirty feel above thn level of the wit. r i <iu»!| 
well, and agree to keop it in perfect good the well. If thL puaition l>. ; tr.ir I .11 ).« 
order, wc would not in this county u*n its advantages arc prnumou*. It I , n .| frugal, 
either, exaept for raising vegetables or for to our country a future such .»* few \ nr» ft'.,/, 
household niiMinmn Ti..-... 1 ago wm r.evvr dreamed of. It strikes the, 
fetters of sterility from thousands upon 
th«usand» of acres, hitherto deemed worth 
lea* except for stock nsngr. h make* at 
otmo a capitalist of (uuavde and puts nut 
piwsihilitiiui into Ilia hand* of men who 
have been sighing for moans to deveku 
with windmills and artesian wells. 
cd 
k*t will find ready 
hie Iowa, but i 
•d and dried wi 
is, and the oi 
II selected 
household purpose*. This may seem 
assertion, but it is made upon duo 
•■deration, after several year* familiarity 
with the best sections uf this county, and * 
careful observation of tho noil* and pro¬ 
ducts in diAarant seasons, a* well a* in dif 
forcnl mode* or cultivation. There an? 
soil.* that may require some irrigation, such 
aa the very sandy, or that with the top-soil 
and hard pan close to tho aurfocc But on 
(lino-tenths of tho arable land In our 
county, tlm soil is auiliciently deep and fine 
to hold all tlm moisture uoco**sry for the 
growth of tree* and vinca, and oven many 
of tlm vegetables iu oomimm use. All that 
ia needed is tho proper cultivation of the 
top soila. 
“Any ono who has noticed tho failures to 
ramo good corn, potatoes, etc., In this 
county, baa doubtless observed that I hero 
was a desperate effort on the part of tho 
crop to do something, and that it fell juat 
as it was uaaring maturity, lie ha* also 
not failed to notice tlm fact that in almost 
every c««e tha ground had not been touched 
'WM A 1U| 
mi and Mai 
and • 
I they I 
j denial 
PROFIT IN FRUIT. 
California fruit now practically ho* the 
world for a market, without a rival in 
uwality. Car loads of thn froth fruit are 
Jaily started on thair journey across the 
Mitiimnt, and they reach their destination | 
tablishfni 
ng to 
■lit n« 
ng his 
Mu. Wu. i.tci, cashier of the first 
National Bank, appears in another column 
•ie very staunch Insurance Corn 
Mr. Lacy needs no rwcomiaetidation 
, , hum us, the mention of hia name earn is 
to tool a ready Slid remunerative market. ,. on fiAon«n 
hilo our canned and dried fruits are well-1 j 
known and greatly prized in Europe. This I, 
demand for our fruits is not the result of j 
any abnormal ami transient condition of j 
the fruit marked, but i« a gradual develop- j 
uient of years, and ia destined to 
vesr by year for at least a decode to omne i 
Frol«ably It ia not generally known to thejvity, S', and 84 Mu 
into the buain« 
vld Mi acting onaiatenl agent, with otflee 
*r (be Coamnpubtao Hotel. 
ring Fair wo 
i Bradley, the pi. 
lave at the l*w 
.■that of Dot! 
