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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1926
Page
4
California reports a mix of local anomalies and state progress. A farmer discovers an abandoned well beneath fields near Oakdale, while prison camps tout efficiency and earnings. Rate adjusters claim millions saved, and county debates extension offices and taxes. Other items include drought notes, new buildings, school and highway plans, and agricultural fairs.
California Fruit Growers' Exchange reports a record citrus crop for the year ending, with over 52,000 cars of oranges, lemons, and grapefruit sold through the exchange. Projections suggest about 75,000 cars for next year. Fresno County faces extensive alkali soil affecting 60,000 acres of irrigation land. A San Bernardino truck crop school will discuss diseases, seed, and yields. Arbuckle almonds, rising lettuce acreage, broom corn harvesting, Lima bean threshing, canal improvements, and early grape shipping experiments are noted, with additional updates on hops contracts, cattle shipments, olive markets, rice threshing, and soil analysis.
Manager W H Disher of the Chino Valley Apple Growers association in Pomona projects 20000 boxes of Gravenstein Banana Bellfleur Jonathan and Greening apples for the opening season. A northern district apple and pear crop depresses local markets, risking small profits unless conditions improve. Los Angeles proves a profitable peach market for Newcastle and Penryn, with prices stronger than Eastern markets. Napa grape harvest heads toward completion, with some weeks left for several more weeks. Car supply remains adequate and moving steadily despite light yields from unusual weather. Mr and Mrs Water Batterman bought 160 acres of sand dunes at Delhi Merced county six years ago, turning barren land into a thriving fruit ranch with Palora Phillips Cling Tuscan Lovell peaches Thompson Seedless and Malaga grapes.
Sol Camp of Shafter ginned twenty bales at the Shafter Fowler-Comac gin. All seed to be saved for pure seed. The cotton is described as splendid quality. Camp farms over 400 acres, mainly in Shafter district, and last year won the first prize for his cotton at Kern county fair.
A one week extension school for citrus growers will be held in Porterville from October 18 to 23. The program includes twenty lectures several field demonstrations and an all day Saturday excursion to acquaint growers with the latest recommendations from the College of Agriculture on essential citrus culture practices.
Nearly 100 rice growers from the Sacramento Valley attended the fifth annual Rice Day meeting at Cortuna near Colusa. Representatives discussed experiments conducted over nine years at the station, where rice has been planted for nearly a decade.
More than 200 tons of almonds have been received at the California Almond Growers Exchange warehouse in Lodi. They are being run through a bleaching plant. Manager J B Davidson estimates 500 more tons in the Lodi district and expects to handle 700 to 750 tons before the season ends.
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