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Proceedings / California. Fruit Growers and Farmers Convention (no. 9)
Proceedings / California Fruit Growers and Farmers Convention - no. 9 Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: number of trees necessary to bear that, counting two boxes to the tree, is four million trees; that is the entire United States. We will grant Florida a million ... more »and a half, and we will take two and a half million trees in California. Now, the number of acres of land to grow this fruit on, at eighty trees to the acre, is thirty-one thousand two hundred and fifty acres. The number of trees already planted in the State of California is about two million, to say nothing about the immense area of the northern citrus belt— about two million trees planted in Southern California. Two and a half million is all we need to raise the requisite amount to supply the United States, to say nothing about the supply that comes from the Mediterranean; we are going to absorb all that with a protective tariff. Well, the number of acres of land now suitable for first class citrus culture in Southern California—and I do not mean the low land next to the ocean, I mean where the conditions are perfect, as we have got them—is seventy-five thousand acres, more than twice as much land as we need to raise the required amount, and for the next season's planting we will want more than two and a half million trees. What are we going to do with all that fruit? The scale bug comes in and tells you exactly what you are going to do with it. That is the only relief you have got—the scale bug. Old nature knows more about it than we do, and we are here to-day to find the conditions that nature intended we should improve for citrus culture, and for fruit culture of all varieties. We are going to find those conditions. Mr. A. Scott Chapman, of San Gabriel, offered the following resolution: Whereas, There are $20,000,000 invested in fruit culture in this State; and, whereas, this may indefinitely increase if given t...« less