AEMT-Tnonc CALIFORNIA. 
niunerativ© price*. There is an Apparently j 
limitless demand for the purpose of sup- j 
plying you, gentlemen of the Eastern State*,' 
with what you deem to be foreign wines, 1 
while some California wines are already I 
beginning to make a reputation which it j 
does not pay to diguise under a foreign i 
label. California is now sending to the 
Atlantic Coast more wine than is imported j 
from France, and if i* estimated that the 
wine crop of last, year yielded to the: 
growers nearly $3,8110,000. The curing 
and packing of raisins has only recently 
commenced, but it is alrevly an Assured 
industry. 
MARKET FOR CAl.irORim WINKS AND 
FRUITS. 
What is true of the product of the vine 
is also true of tliu product of the orchard. 
For the finer qualities of fruit, such a« will 
bear long railroad transportation, or are 
preferred by the carmers, there has been 
developed a market which it seems impos¬ 
sible to glut. In San Francisco, in Ala¬ 
meda and San .lose, are fruit canning es¬ 
tablishments, which during the baay season, 
employ over a thousand hands apiece, and 
all over the State, wherever there is an im 
portant fruit district, this industry in rap¬ 
idly developing. Orchards of the finer 
varieties of peaches, plums, pears, necta 
riiies, etc., ore being set nut in all parts of 
the State, and in the southern suction the 
culture of semi-tropical fruit, is attaining 
large dimensions. Considerable quantities 
of fresh fruit, carefully selected and packed, 
arc forwarded by express to Eastern cities, 
even at the high rates of freight nm* ruling, 
nud with cheaper railroad communication, 
or a means of preserving fruit so as tu en 
aide it to stand the slower carriage of the 
regular freight trains (which, it is now said, 
has been discovered), this business must 
enormously increase." 
CALIFORNIA WINES. 
California is the only country in the world 
that sends to market pure wines, free from 
admixture of any kind. But now our fir*t 
class wine men complain that same are 
using grape sugar, extracted from corn and 
Vegetables, to doctor inferior wines l.,**t 
week wo saw a notice that a dealer had re¬ 
ceived from Franc* extra superior claret, 
on sale at $l.. r il) a gallon, and an equally 
low price in bottles. On lasting wc said. 
"That wine is not from France; no claret 
of such body and bouquet was ever made 
in Europe. They haven't the aim to ripen 
grapes into win® like that." He replied 
that French labels made it sell to thousands 
who would not bur it If they thought it 
wa* American. Public attention should he 
called to California claret especially, (or it* 
manifest superiority to what is imported 
Two French experts differ ns to the cause 
of the body, spirit, ami high bouquet of 
our wines. One attributes it to the rich 
ness of our soil* and their aewness. The 
other says nay j it is their prolonged Mason 
without rain or storm, and their everlasting 
sunshine. It is too much of a good thing; 
your wines are too strong. Hut if we had 
some of them «• could make them first- j 
class by our treatment! They say ours 
raw wines. ** It needs skillful treatment j 
to adapt it to the popular taste.'' Our 
Onhaul informs us that the falling off of! 
vintage by the phylloxera greatly shortens j 
the wine product, though for every gallon 
sh-*rt from the vineyard* a gallon and * 
half ia supplied by art. Around Pans 1 
! alone are sevnii very targe factories making j 
artificial wines to order from rotten apples, 
damaged dried fruits of all kinds, from 1 
beets, and from spoiled mol saws; also [ 
largely from gluc.se made from potatoes 1 
Petition* arc presented Ur the government 
to put a stop to the fraud. The petitioner., | 
wbo are dealer*, assert that not one-third 
or the wine oonamm-d in Paris is mad- 
from grapes. How do«» that sound in our 
snobs who turn from American grape-juioe 
to patronize what if foreign. Never was 
planting so aotii* among vinters aa it i« 
now. Wine pays and gropa* bring ad 
vsneed prices. Order* for certain kind* nf 
win* are in exresa of supplies, aod for 
every kind tilt demand promises to be 
ample at full rate*. The French gnvero- 
ment la prohibiting the use of certain in 
gradients essential to making sham wines, 
and curtailing the use of other elements 
less injurious to the health. A lain law 
forbids the mining of more than half the 
usual quantity of potassium sulphate in 
making artificial wines. These restriction* 
increase the sal© of California wine* to 
fortify the artificial.— Haiti mart, Sun. 
8UBE DEATH TO RABBITS. 
Many remedies have been advocated t< 
abate the rabbit nuisance, and ail claim 
some merit, but the following one from the 
Rural Pma it teem* haa proven to he very 
effective: 
“ It is believed that a practical extermin¬ 
ation of hare* and rabbit# can bo affected 
in many communities by a concert of w«dl 
directed effort*. It is reported that in New 
Zealand and Australia the prevalent*} of 
rabbit* has bran a source of terror to the 
inhabitants, insomuch that it is made • 
subject of legislation, atul the rural puli© 
aru instructed to aeo that the laud owner* 
use mean* of destruction praarriheJ by 
law. PhoBphorir.cd oats have proved a must 
efficient agent, for which the fallowing 
recipe ia employed in their preparation: 
I It, phosphorus, 
3 It., dark *«itnr. 
0 gallon* water 
Ih.ll, and stir slowly snd cautiously IP, 
tniriutns; then stir in Itki Ru of mu, to re¬ 
main until saturated. Nearly all kinda <*f, 
vermin est it with avidity, and always with 
fatal result*- lit- it* u«e ralihita s.e said; 
to be destroyed "by the hundreils of thou ' 
sands. 
lieing much troubled with Iwre, rabbit*, 
si <1 squirrels amongst my crops, I recently j 
made a lest of a similar preparation, *« \ 
follows: i 
t .lick plr-wjihofU*. 
3 gallons water. 
Heated as above, and 20 IK* wheat i 
■Jed. After soaking for half an hour (being 
kept hot and nr«aaionally stirred ►, f 
enough wh*at middlings to absorb the re¬ 
maining liquid, and, by atirriag, e *v* » 
r'wting to th* grama of wheat. TV 1>r *pa- 
tkm was then dried by being spread in the 
arm upon a Hat rock. The coat is . 
through the trad) 
■nrl about a ties 
the intersection 
- • 
rol colonies. 
Tlr* effect wa 
ed,and 
oris hare 'n now to be seen where r 
they could he counted by doaens trooping 
down from the hill*. They will doubtless 
*tr*y in from neighboring ranches; but I 
sin firmly persuaded if all my neighbor* 
would act together, covering so *ttended 
rsng*. using hherslqr.antM.es nf tba poison, 
tnd occasionally repeating ths treatment, 
we could rid ourselves -if the evil, and 
turo onr profitless hillsides and ontlanda 
the owner*, and whew* verdure would Mess 
the vision nf each passing traveler. 
Poway, San Diego Co,, Cal., Aug. 8, 'HI. 
ANAHEIM VINE! A RDM. 
The grape* are fast rifutniitg, and (ha 
I vintage is expected to begin about the mid¬ 
dle of September. Whether the average 
yield will conic up to the phenomenal pro¬ 
duct of last year i* a question that w wry 
j hard to answer. Sams vineyards will yield 
inch more than last year, others an equal 
mount, and still others much lee*. As a 
j rule, the grapes arc ■mailer than Isat year, 
but this deficiency is coont«rt>sUnoe-i by 
j the fact that thr hum-ire* are generally 
, larger. Of on* thing we have ample proof 
; -tlr* vineyard* of Anaheim ar* healthier 
and thriftier than titom nf either San 
Osbriel or !»* Annie a In th* former 
place no irrigation, in th* laUvr place loo 
I much irrigation. These, we think, or* (he 
reasons, sucrtuetly stated, which make the 
, linerards inferior to th. «• of Anaheim. 
I Here, for two or three y«*r* psat. th* great 
bulk ui irrigation ■» dun* in Winter. ,.u>* 
! cl th* largest vineyard* never ream** a 
drop of water later than March, and th» 
jsystem ha* be... found to giro the host ru¬ 
ble iw.ighbi.tr* should profit by our ex- 
ample. — .1 i.i/utm fAecrtfr. 
Ov« advice* from *»«t **c»i.'«» point to 
• Urge grape crop. The large wineries arc 
already contracting for grape* at about last 
veer's prices, and are preparing, w* uadsr- 
*tand, to do a much We* buwnaaa this 
vear than ever liefer*. Surely cur grsp* 
industry is very promising, seed tin* winter 
Mu..aw is* fungus growth, which car. 
b* ( killed by sprinkling th* leave* with 
