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VOL. XXIII. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, DEO. 15,1888. NO. 50 Written for the Indian* Farmer. California Notes. BY J P. HKNDENHalL. la my notes of July 27th, I spoke of the foothills of the Sierra Madre mountains ts a field remarkably rich in bee pasturage Slncethonl have had occasion to travel over many miles of these foothills, and am inclined to think there is room for a million hives instead of the twenty- five or thirty thousand we now have. The demand for pure CALIFORNIA HONEY is increasing, and prices now are higher than they were two years ago. If our finest comb honey could be shipped East as cheaply as the extracted, the demand would be great. The home demand for for best grades of comb is large, and the wholesale price now is 12 to 15 cents per pound, while the extracted sells at four to six cents per pound. The extra white and extra light amber brings the highest price, and that put on the market in July or August is the best, or, at least, should be the best, for the silver sage blossoms in Jane, and no flower in the world produces a sweeter honey than the white, or silver sage. A lot of 643 cases, or about 80,000 pounds of extracted honey were shipped from here the past week,and the previous week 120,000 pounds. In October a shipment almost as large was made. The entire lot wasBBfit'M England, by steamer from Sin Francisco. I am told a nice old bachelor drove into Orange one day the past rammer with 11 tons, or TWENTY TWO THOUSAND POUNDS OF HONKY. So much sweetness was irresistible, and since then the quiet old bachelor has taken a help-meet. Bees swarm about the same time they do in the Eastern States, and occasionally a stray swarm flies as late as November. They find lodgings in all sorts of places, such as in chimneys,house gibles, porches, stone piles and even on the large mustard plants. An Indian ian traveling through the country the past summer saw a swarm of bees lodge on a small tree, and like a thrifty Hoosier set about to capture them. Not having a box of any sort to put them n he was somewhat pnzzlrd to know how to get them home. He happened to have one of those old-fashioned carpet bags at hand, a roomy concern that would hold a bushel. Into this empty bag he hustled the bees and turned the key on them. When he arrived at home he hung the bag of bees on a shade tree and forgot them for a week or two. The bees found a little hole in the lower corner of the bag.and thinking their new home quite roomy and comfortable, they went to work, and by the time the owner called around bad several pounds of fine honey along the ridge Pole of the carpet bag. All Mr. Hoosier had to do was to turn the key, cut out a few pounds of comb and lock the bag again. At last accounts the bees were doing well and storing up sweet nectar for our Indiana friend, at the rate of nearly a pound •day. A few weeks ago Mr. J. Ii, Hunt and brother, of Indianapolis, invited me to Join them in a trip to Wilson's peak, one of the highest points of the S'erra Madre range, a few miles northeast of Pasadena. After packing a goodly basket °f provisions and getting blankets and overcoats, we set out for Sierra Madre vUlage.some 15 miles to the east,where the trail begins. Under a grove of gum trees *• the foot of .the mountains we took our t-oon lunch and prepared for a few hours °f hard climbing. We secured a gooi donkey from a corral In the village to car- -7 our provisions, blankets, etc., and at one o'clock started up the seven or eight ■Bile trail on foot. The trail winds along *he Bide of the mountain, and makes sev eral hundred turns before reaching the top, or the point called Wilson's Peak, some 6,000 "feet above the sea. At times the little narrow path seemed quite dangerous. To our left we could look down 2,000 feet or more, and on the right the mountain rose out of sight. Occasionally a huge boulder would go tumbling down, and we could hear it crashing through the mountain shrubbery and over the stones, with a sound like muffled thunder. The mountains are covered in most parts with a dense shrubbery and gnarled underbrush, making it impossible to travel over them except on a well worn trail. In many places are little forests of pine and fir trees, some ot them four or five feet in diameter, and over 100 feet in height. There are millions of feet of lumber in these mountain forests but it is inaccessible. Five hours of hard travel brought us to the "notch," where we encamped for the night. We managed to sleep pretty well on a bed of brush, in spite of the thought that a wild cat or bear might be promenading along our mountain trail. The following morning,a brisk half hour's climb brought us to the top of the moun tain. We arrived at the most favoraole time of the day, j ast when the sun was at the proper angle to contribute largely in enhancing and beautifying thes cene. The beauteous grandeur with which nature has so lavishly endowed this most wonderful region suddenly, presented itself in one GRAND PANORAMA. Pasadena, a few miles to the west, and some four thousand feet below us looked like a city of lilliputians, and with the aid of a good opera-glass I could locate our house in Los Angeles, some fifteen miles to the west, which did not look quite as large as a page of the Indiana Farmer. Beautiful ranches, stretching away to the west, and up and down the valley as far as the eye can reach, contain a luxuriant growth of orange, lemon, apricot, peach, grape, pomegranate, fig and almost all kinds of tropical and semi-tropical fruits, which attain to great perfection here. The beautiful landscape is interspersed with fields of alfalfa, barley, wheat and oats. Four or five railways are ln view, but it is difficult to make out moving trains without the aid of a glass. The fifteen hundred acres of grapes of the San Oabriel Wine Co., look like a small garden farm, and the Sinta Monica hills, which took me a good hour to climb, looked much like potato ridges. To the north and east extending many miles Is one vast panorama of hills, ridges and mountains, rising higher and higher, until cut oft on the east by "Old Baldy," now covered with a cap of snow. Deer, bears, wildcats, foxes and occasionally a mountain lion, roam over the hills and valleys unmolested. During the day the air was quite warm, about 75° in the sun, but in the shade there was a marked difference, and at night the air was quite cool, making a roaring camp fire very desirable. We reluctantly left THE CAPTIVATING SCENE, and made the descent in just four hours and ten minutes, feeling that it was about the hardest half-day's work we had ever done. We read of fearful storms and great drifts of snow in the Eastern States,and of some lives lost by the cold. This is quite different from the weather we have here. The past month has been remarkably pleasant—regular Jane weather—and tender flowers are in foil bloom. Not even the shadow of a frost for Thanksgiving day. Daring November we had about three inches of rain, and the grass has been growing wonderfully. Gardeners are busy, and some fruit growers are beginning to.set trees. This work will be con tinued until next Miy. Seems to me this country is a PARADISE FOR OARDENERS and fruit growers. Over 150,000 fruit trees of various kinds were planted last season in the vicinity of Los Angeles, and I think over 200,000 will be set this winter. The farmers will sow more wheat this season than usual, and the indications are for splendid crops of all kinds. Our Chinaman gardener brought us fine strawberries the 20th of October, and they will begin to come in again about the middle of December. I saw a few boxes in market today. New peas and string beans are plenty in market, and lettuce,splnach,radishes etc., we have the year round. Grapes, pears, plums, quinces and figs are still in market, but of inferior quality. Persimmons as large as tea cups are plentiful on the fruit stands, and oranges and lemons are beginning to ripen. The crop of these will be very heavy this season. THANKSGIVING PRICES in Los Angeles: Live turkeys 20 and 25 cents a pound; cranberries 15 cts. a quart; eggs 35 cts. a dozen; butter,best creamery, 40 cts. per pound; choice potatoes 2 cts., and sweets VA cts. per pound; grapes 5 cts , pears 5 cts. and apples 3 cts. to 10 cts. per pound; Washington naval oranges, select 50 cts. per dozen; English walnuts 10 to 12 cts. per pound; best roller process flour 151.40 per one fourth barrel; corn meal 3 cts. per pound; baled hay,all kinds, 65 cts. per 100 pounds; rolled barley, for feed, one cent per pound; lumber, rough Oregon pine, or red wood $25 per 1,000; surfaced, $37.50; shingles $3.60 per 1,000. Los Angeles, Cal. Farm Notes. Editors Indiana Farmer: The frequency of the articles on various subjects that appear so regularly in our agricultural publications,by some of their gifted contributors, would seem more like emanating from the brain of theorists than those engaged in the practical every day life of the average farmer,and I know that the idea is very general with the farming class that many of the frequent contributions on farm topics and farm management are made by theorists. Is it not a fact that if the average farmer who is engaged in gardening and stock raising would, should, or more probably could, put hla plans, successes or failures, on paper, they would appear in a far different light than what they commonly do? For it can be said that of all kinds of labor engaging the attention of mankind none is more complicated than that of the average farmer. Where is the farmer that can enumerate definitely the details of labor to be performed on the farm in the course of a twelvemonth? So various, and so event- ful.one part following directly in the path of another and all so dependent on one another that it becomes like a vast piece of machinery, demanding constant attention and skillful management, that all parts may smoothly work in full harmony to meet the ends of "standard time." Miello. The Philadelphia Times brings the debts ot European countries together in one statement. France has the greatest, being $5,902,800,000, to which must be added $432,000,000 in life annuities, expiring with the lives of their owners. "Of the other European nations the debt of Russia is the greatest amounting to $3,605,600,000. Bat Russia has a population of 80,000,000, while France has but little more than 30,- 000,000. The per capita debt of Russia Is a little less than $50, while that of France is nearly $200. The English debt is next in groBS amount, being $3,665,800 000. Italy owes 52,226,600,000; Austria, $ 1,857,600,000; Spain, $1,203,400,000; Prussia, $962,800,000, and Hungary, $635,600,000." THE INDIANA FARMER ONE OF The Most Practical and Popular Agricultural Journals Published in TBE WESTERN STATES. The intenely practical character of the Indiana Farmer is what has given it the immense popularity it now enjoys among fartiiers. Indiana has come to be known as one of the best agricultural States in the world, according to area, in the pro- ductiou of all the staples, and in live stock. The Indiana Farmer has kept pace in this movtment to the front rank until the agricultural importance of the State is fully reflected in its pages. A State is largely measured by those outside, by its institutions. The great and rapidly growing circulation of the Farmer has enabled us to show that the agricultural industries and improvements of the State have kept pace with Its Railway extensions. Its growing Manufactures. Its Mining industries. Its developing Cities and Towns. The farmers of Indiana, and of the sections of other States naturally and practically allied to us in trade, know the value and importance of a representative of their interests. The census to be taken in about a year from now will it is believed, show that the center of population of the Nati-n is near the center of Indiana. We want by that time to double our present number of constituents, the readers of the Farmer. "We appeal to the State pride of our farm naders to stand by their own representative, which stands by them. We do it in confidence, for the past is the assurance for the future. Twenty-five thousand more readers will add so much more to our effectiveness and ability in holding up the agricultural interests. All other industries are heartily supporting and advancing their own class interest**. In the heart and center of population, let us keep agriculture in the front rank also. And the Farmer proposes to do its part in the work. It is the largest weekly agricultural paper now published for $1 a year. Each one of our present subscribers can with a word or two secure us one more, and that would be a small work for each, but great in the aggregate good that it would enable us to do for the farm interests of the State. Try it, and report to us. . • Sample copies will be sent if requested. ' THE INDIANA FABMEB 00., Indiaunolis, Ind, ■
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Title | Indiana farmer, 1888, v. 23, no. 50 (Dec. 15) |
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Transcript | VOL. XXIII. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, DEO. 15,1888. NO. 50 Written for the Indian* Farmer. California Notes. BY J P. HKNDENHalL. la my notes of July 27th, I spoke of the foothills of the Sierra Madre mountains ts a field remarkably rich in bee pasturage Slncethonl have had occasion to travel over many miles of these foothills, and am inclined to think there is room for a million hives instead of the twenty- five or thirty thousand we now have. The demand for pure CALIFORNIA HONEY is increasing, and prices now are higher than they were two years ago. If our finest comb honey could be shipped East as cheaply as the extracted, the demand would be great. The home demand for for best grades of comb is large, and the wholesale price now is 12 to 15 cents per pound, while the extracted sells at four to six cents per pound. The extra white and extra light amber brings the highest price, and that put on the market in July or August is the best, or, at least, should be the best, for the silver sage blossoms in Jane, and no flower in the world produces a sweeter honey than the white, or silver sage. A lot of 643 cases, or about 80,000 pounds of extracted honey were shipped from here the past week,and the previous week 120,000 pounds. In October a shipment almost as large was made. The entire lot wasBBfit'M England, by steamer from Sin Francisco. I am told a nice old bachelor drove into Orange one day the past rammer with 11 tons, or TWENTY TWO THOUSAND POUNDS OF HONKY. So much sweetness was irresistible, and since then the quiet old bachelor has taken a help-meet. Bees swarm about the same time they do in the Eastern States, and occasionally a stray swarm flies as late as November. They find lodgings in all sorts of places, such as in chimneys,house gibles, porches, stone piles and even on the large mustard plants. An Indian ian traveling through the country the past summer saw a swarm of bees lodge on a small tree, and like a thrifty Hoosier set about to capture them. Not having a box of any sort to put them n he was somewhat pnzzlrd to know how to get them home. He happened to have one of those old-fashioned carpet bags at hand, a roomy concern that would hold a bushel. Into this empty bag he hustled the bees and turned the key on them. When he arrived at home he hung the bag of bees on a shade tree and forgot them for a week or two. The bees found a little hole in the lower corner of the bag.and thinking their new home quite roomy and comfortable, they went to work, and by the time the owner called around bad several pounds of fine honey along the ridge Pole of the carpet bag. All Mr. Hoosier had to do was to turn the key, cut out a few pounds of comb and lock the bag again. At last accounts the bees were doing well and storing up sweet nectar for our Indiana friend, at the rate of nearly a pound •day. A few weeks ago Mr. J. Ii, Hunt and brother, of Indianapolis, invited me to Join them in a trip to Wilson's peak, one of the highest points of the S'erra Madre range, a few miles northeast of Pasadena. After packing a goodly basket °f provisions and getting blankets and overcoats, we set out for Sierra Madre vUlage.some 15 miles to the east,where the trail begins. Under a grove of gum trees *• the foot of .the mountains we took our t-oon lunch and prepared for a few hours °f hard climbing. We secured a gooi donkey from a corral In the village to car- -7 our provisions, blankets, etc., and at one o'clock started up the seven or eight ■Bile trail on foot. The trail winds along *he Bide of the mountain, and makes sev eral hundred turns before reaching the top, or the point called Wilson's Peak, some 6,000 "feet above the sea. At times the little narrow path seemed quite dangerous. To our left we could look down 2,000 feet or more, and on the right the mountain rose out of sight. Occasionally a huge boulder would go tumbling down, and we could hear it crashing through the mountain shrubbery and over the stones, with a sound like muffled thunder. The mountains are covered in most parts with a dense shrubbery and gnarled underbrush, making it impossible to travel over them except on a well worn trail. In many places are little forests of pine and fir trees, some ot them four or five feet in diameter, and over 100 feet in height. There are millions of feet of lumber in these mountain forests but it is inaccessible. Five hours of hard travel brought us to the "notch," where we encamped for the night. We managed to sleep pretty well on a bed of brush, in spite of the thought that a wild cat or bear might be promenading along our mountain trail. The following morning,a brisk half hour's climb brought us to the top of the moun tain. We arrived at the most favoraole time of the day, j ast when the sun was at the proper angle to contribute largely in enhancing and beautifying thes cene. The beauteous grandeur with which nature has so lavishly endowed this most wonderful region suddenly, presented itself in one GRAND PANORAMA. Pasadena, a few miles to the west, and some four thousand feet below us looked like a city of lilliputians, and with the aid of a good opera-glass I could locate our house in Los Angeles, some fifteen miles to the west, which did not look quite as large as a page of the Indiana Farmer. Beautiful ranches, stretching away to the west, and up and down the valley as far as the eye can reach, contain a luxuriant growth of orange, lemon, apricot, peach, grape, pomegranate, fig and almost all kinds of tropical and semi-tropical fruits, which attain to great perfection here. The beautiful landscape is interspersed with fields of alfalfa, barley, wheat and oats. Four or five railways are ln view, but it is difficult to make out moving trains without the aid of a glass. The fifteen hundred acres of grapes of the San Oabriel Wine Co., look like a small garden farm, and the Sinta Monica hills, which took me a good hour to climb, looked much like potato ridges. To the north and east extending many miles Is one vast panorama of hills, ridges and mountains, rising higher and higher, until cut oft on the east by "Old Baldy," now covered with a cap of snow. Deer, bears, wildcats, foxes and occasionally a mountain lion, roam over the hills and valleys unmolested. During the day the air was quite warm, about 75° in the sun, but in the shade there was a marked difference, and at night the air was quite cool, making a roaring camp fire very desirable. We reluctantly left THE CAPTIVATING SCENE, and made the descent in just four hours and ten minutes, feeling that it was about the hardest half-day's work we had ever done. We read of fearful storms and great drifts of snow in the Eastern States,and of some lives lost by the cold. This is quite different from the weather we have here. The past month has been remarkably pleasant—regular Jane weather—and tender flowers are in foil bloom. Not even the shadow of a frost for Thanksgiving day. Daring November we had about three inches of rain, and the grass has been growing wonderfully. Gardeners are busy, and some fruit growers are beginning to.set trees. This work will be con tinued until next Miy. Seems to me this country is a PARADISE FOR OARDENERS and fruit growers. Over 150,000 fruit trees of various kinds were planted last season in the vicinity of Los Angeles, and I think over 200,000 will be set this winter. The farmers will sow more wheat this season than usual, and the indications are for splendid crops of all kinds. Our Chinaman gardener brought us fine strawberries the 20th of October, and they will begin to come in again about the middle of December. I saw a few boxes in market today. New peas and string beans are plenty in market, and lettuce,splnach,radishes etc., we have the year round. Grapes, pears, plums, quinces and figs are still in market, but of inferior quality. Persimmons as large as tea cups are plentiful on the fruit stands, and oranges and lemons are beginning to ripen. The crop of these will be very heavy this season. THANKSGIVING PRICES in Los Angeles: Live turkeys 20 and 25 cents a pound; cranberries 15 cts. a quart; eggs 35 cts. a dozen; butter,best creamery, 40 cts. per pound; choice potatoes 2 cts., and sweets VA cts. per pound; grapes 5 cts , pears 5 cts. and apples 3 cts. to 10 cts. per pound; Washington naval oranges, select 50 cts. per dozen; English walnuts 10 to 12 cts. per pound; best roller process flour 151.40 per one fourth barrel; corn meal 3 cts. per pound; baled hay,all kinds, 65 cts. per 100 pounds; rolled barley, for feed, one cent per pound; lumber, rough Oregon pine, or red wood $25 per 1,000; surfaced, $37.50; shingles $3.60 per 1,000. Los Angeles, Cal. Farm Notes. Editors Indiana Farmer: The frequency of the articles on various subjects that appear so regularly in our agricultural publications,by some of their gifted contributors, would seem more like emanating from the brain of theorists than those engaged in the practical every day life of the average farmer,and I know that the idea is very general with the farming class that many of the frequent contributions on farm topics and farm management are made by theorists. Is it not a fact that if the average farmer who is engaged in gardening and stock raising would, should, or more probably could, put hla plans, successes or failures, on paper, they would appear in a far different light than what they commonly do? For it can be said that of all kinds of labor engaging the attention of mankind none is more complicated than that of the average farmer. Where is the farmer that can enumerate definitely the details of labor to be performed on the farm in the course of a twelvemonth? So various, and so event- ful.one part following directly in the path of another and all so dependent on one another that it becomes like a vast piece of machinery, demanding constant attention and skillful management, that all parts may smoothly work in full harmony to meet the ends of "standard time." Miello. The Philadelphia Times brings the debts ot European countries together in one statement. France has the greatest, being $5,902,800,000, to which must be added $432,000,000 in life annuities, expiring with the lives of their owners. "Of the other European nations the debt of Russia is the greatest amounting to $3,605,600,000. Bat Russia has a population of 80,000,000, while France has but little more than 30,- 000,000. The per capita debt of Russia Is a little less than $50, while that of France is nearly $200. The English debt is next in groBS amount, being $3,665,800 000. Italy owes 52,226,600,000; Austria, $ 1,857,600,000; Spain, $1,203,400,000; Prussia, $962,800,000, and Hungary, $635,600,000." THE INDIANA FARMER ONE OF The Most Practical and Popular Agricultural Journals Published in TBE WESTERN STATES. The intenely practical character of the Indiana Farmer is what has given it the immense popularity it now enjoys among fartiiers. Indiana has come to be known as one of the best agricultural States in the world, according to area, in the pro- ductiou of all the staples, and in live stock. The Indiana Farmer has kept pace in this movtment to the front rank until the agricultural importance of the State is fully reflected in its pages. A State is largely measured by those outside, by its institutions. The great and rapidly growing circulation of the Farmer has enabled us to show that the agricultural industries and improvements of the State have kept pace with Its Railway extensions. Its growing Manufactures. Its Mining industries. Its developing Cities and Towns. The farmers of Indiana, and of the sections of other States naturally and practically allied to us in trade, know the value and importance of a representative of their interests. The census to be taken in about a year from now will it is believed, show that the center of population of the Nati-n is near the center of Indiana. We want by that time to double our present number of constituents, the readers of the Farmer. "We appeal to the State pride of our farm naders to stand by their own representative, which stands by them. We do it in confidence, for the past is the assurance for the future. Twenty-five thousand more readers will add so much more to our effectiveness and ability in holding up the agricultural interests. All other industries are heartily supporting and advancing their own class interest**. In the heart and center of population, let us keep agriculture in the front rank also. And the Farmer proposes to do its part in the work. It is the largest weekly agricultural paper now published for $1 a year. Each one of our present subscribers can with a word or two secure us one more, and that would be a small work for each, but great in the aggregate good that it would enable us to do for the farm interests of the State. Try it, and report to us. . • Sample copies will be sent if requested. ' THE INDIANA FABMEB 00., Indiaunolis, Ind, ■ |
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