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COUNTY NOTES. 
Cureless farming is the btfOe of Southern 
California. Where the plow, harrow arid 
manure pile are neglected, may !><• found 
the poverty-stricken farmer. 
A stock company has been formed at 
Santa Arm for tlm erection nt that pure of 
a tin* hotel. Work upon the building still 
commence immediately, and the budding 
when completed will coat 
Norwalk nod the Artn»ia settlement knem 
to Imre prospered during the past year. 
Those vvhn look proper care of thnr place*, 
ami carried on their farming on trite busi¬ 
ness principles, were well reward, d for 
their labor. 
Business in Annliidin is improving, and a 
new hotel is about to he opened, which 
will do justice to the town. A firat-clasa 
hotel has lung been needed at Anaheim, 
and we have no doubt will be well patron- 
Some thrifty farmers' wives in the neigh- 
borhood of t.Vniralin and Artraia inform "• 
that they have netted between anil 
•400 from their poultry during tin- pel 
year. There is a great demand for im¬ 
proved breeds—Plymouth Kic ks, Brown 
Leghorn*, etc. 
The people of the southern end of I.n± 
Angeles County would greatly appree aie u 
little attention from tlie* officials of the 
Agricultural Department nt Berkeley. An 
analysis of tho alkali and salty the 
proper means to eradicate these undesirable 
factors, and any other infurinatinn hearing 
on this topic, would, if practical, be of con* 
side-ruble benefit. 
Since exaggerated reports aovni In have 
been circulated concerning the provider.. 
of injurious winds in the Santa Ana nuley, 
"U think it proper to state that after i » un- 
inuig numerous orchard* in the neighbor* 
hood of Santa Ana, Tuiditi and Orange wi 
can truthfully say that although thr tree*, 
lire heavily loillb'd with fruit no damage 
from ‘‘Sanitt Ana’s" was perceptible 
The southern s.-tibineiii* of !•>* Ang-de. 
OOlinty me gaining in population im.l 
weft]til ill W most e*tr*ordo.*wy ... 
Wo doubt if any portion of tlm I m u i» 
progressing so rapidly, nod the tn.-l .Mali- 
lying feature of (Ion prosperity * that 
thorn seems to bn no iullaUuii of valneti. 
Nature has been prodigal in lo r y l'« to 
the Santa Ann Valley, and they me just 
beginning to bo appreciated. 
The hotel ai t (range just opened by J. 
\V. Anderson, K*<| , i» on* • •< th-- in *t 
homelike and picas,mt resorts for 0 ,,, i* 
we knownf in Southern California I'lm 
settlement of t (range is prospering « ■ iei 
fully. Land is ebanging hands nml c\ery 
month sees a further iucresM- in values 
We me glad to be able to st,-.le on (!.. b, si 
of authority that the item* going tie rounds 
of the press l oneeriiiug the danger from 
red scale in the act I lenient ia m n maimer 
false. Thin parasite only appeared in one 
orchard mid is now under control 
Oiitie CttUnte. 
\«Wfoy ftu.' E 4„ J, yfnUri„ r ,l t U 
Vnrime of Franc*, rump.h-d t ,„ rv r „ 
FRDIT BEABISG. 
BV Kl.LWOOO • OOPkil, MVVT V |u|. Mr , 
hvisthra work on the oh** (-nbltafard in 
lVia in lx;;, from Which 1 copy and trsr.a 
ate a* fallow*; -Urge olirvtree. 
i Trees growing from cuttings, will ., r „ 
( 1(100 fruit the fourth year, and •sunetiiws. 
is, require to be distant from -m-i, nifirr 
J^JE’ J‘,.y second 
> at far r a Mi 
will give a lew berries the third s.*»r J* ,, 
n.na rJd t p,d nimrinchr , i"" 7'"’ 
the habit ol the tree to overhear, and as \ 
| rvitiaeiptrnen will gtre but lrttle f»mt the 
ij«**r following a h*a»y crop. fhla star, 
i me nt IS verified uy ifa- 1T ,o*» relubta Wire 
"•ill prodwoe J*l 15 gallm.a Or* pi 
rcmuT anti nnnhrr ^f'u-ro 
i published on the »ub|ect in 'be |7*f>ct,, 
Irslion arid Spanish language*. There ,, r 
** follow.. trees r; inches in -bsm-rre' 
1 nia. Mr. 1 taste, wiw ha-1 charge of the -ai 
due* of lbs same, ire in gallon* .d Urr.cs" 
lbeg» Mission orchard in l-:’.. a—.re 1 
that he had gathered from the »ano »r. 
». r,' .Wiisr 7mi“-r!t» '• ' **||!^* 
i two veers in *u, o-saion, over l.Vigait • 
ben ire. 1 have also observed that *nn« 
•'. , 71%7; n r l,, l ^ 7 *7° 
oeaaive year*. Thu fnut'bisririg rail b* 
j controlled by liu pruning The cultivator 
will dot forget that the •hods nr branches 
This would be sc) trceTtu ihs'.Tre.snd dl 
rent apart tdl faet. Freneb ewliivattwa 
fruit; hence, partial ]tvuning wrj war 
1 will give pnrriil crops. My oldest orchard 
was planted February Si, At four 
| year* I gathered from turns of the tree* 
over two gallon* of l.errie*; in 1*78 over 
i rentity of fruit a* nt.r eighifi, and in 
thirty gallons each oil a few of tire |.e»i 
trre«, the orchard then being onlt »<x rear* 
old. In the srvD.rth year, the'< r. p 
i was not nesrltr an Urge. 1 had planted 
" -di n *:'.zsVj tfaXiifi^farot.,!^* 
! several thuuiwml cutting* in thr 1 spring ot 
| Ih'd, but there trees rlt.i not give at six 
1 Hie presetif cnip ( 1XM') i*quit* good; ti.e 
| oldest ore bat'd nun faring eight years, end 1 
! think I do not over estimate when 1 slats 
that the yield of some of the best aod (uil 
rrvt trees will be over forty gallons. Tree* 
n rod from the i.unl.rj* untii »mT«n re*«t 
in Kurope as early as they do -n Cs'ifersi*. 
po .ably gt‘e. the first fifty years, d*n*kle 
(^sl results trivMi »•» th**w cs.nnt.rr. 
occupy neatly alt the ground, nr id therefore 
giin all the Iruit that can ba product"! on 
‘oneacre. An orchard bearing uniformly 
tho quantity a* above would give lbs fol¬ 
lowing result: t)n« hundred trees to ih- 
1 acre, at forty gallon* each. 4.M00 gallons- 
-» • re oil making ba* been the biu.i.r* <or 
f, .*the' 1st"to* he ‘ithh . « r May. ««l>»The 
At tbw w« have our hesi weather. 
1 Ins would be an enormous crop, ut»pn'<>’ 
N wbitw «« tfa* war hi .re all Ih# u~wd.lH.hs 
in Kumjkcan publications. The •on- fourth 
of tin* ipianotr yearly would l~- a wv* 
profitable crop. 
IA estimating an ore bard, tbs yield of 
rite ol.ro usually npM» ... N-wiser. 
In -on* iw*b».s. in KaMern orwairraa far 
isolated trees, or trees of grrat age, occupy 
ing Considerable areav of cmhiniI, must not 
pi.-hable pi.•dilcli oi. The tree trlfiitii t • •> 
mg fa curable tears. th« Fruit pa.-k.rg for 
nil begins s» 'early .. OeWber, jd far 
in the Stan Ihegu Mission orchard as yield 
ing 1 .VI gallons »/ bone* was r.ioie than 
fifty faot distant from those awrroundrag it. 
\r.\ waa ire ..snail v *'e w rt|Mretng. not 
being ready m pick before the middle • ' 
January—a delay oi fully Ms* iwonlba--ike 
through (be edit* districts, iuttMirc .1 a tier 
growing in the ‘'Alpa* Murumii , » l that «e 
ground, and at the ground fifteen fret m 
diameter. Only a lew tree* of well »i..e 
conl.l lie grown OH • 1.0 .«• . 
A. Conkliw*, fr.yiiw. VI- *A < ■ . • 
ram fall uf there two years. 
(IVfcfWiNMftf) 
CV pi* to kept 'cuosUnUy fur sal* at the 
(Jrangn .Store. No. ! ' 1 Mam at reel. 
