. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. California Agriculturist and Live Stock ^iie Mfack Jfo unfit IJ S. HAERIS HEEEINa & CO., Editors aud Publisliers. V OFFICE: Over the San .lose Savings Bank, B;«U>arlL''s Itniltlin^, Santa Clara Street, near First, San Joge. SPECIAL TESMS TO AGEITTS. RATES OF ADVERTISING. Per one Column ?15 00 Per Month *' half Oolnnin 8 00 " *' fourth Column 4 00 " ** " eishth Column 2 00 " ** " sixteenth Column 100 •* *' n^ We aro dtite
. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. California Agriculturist and Live Stock ^iie Mfack Jfo unfit IJ S. HAERIS HEEEINa & CO., Editors aud Publisliers. V OFFICE: Over the San .lose Savings Bank, B;«U>arlL''s Itniltlin^, Santa Clara Street, near First, San Joge. SPECIAL TESMS TO AGEITTS. RATES OF ADVERTISING. Per one Column ?15 00 Per Month *' half Oolnnin 8 00 " *' fourth Column 4 00 " ** " eishth Column 2 00 " ** " sixteenth Column 100 •* *' n^ We aro dtitermined to adhere to to our reeolution to admit none but worthy biiyinesB advertising in our columns, and to keep clnar of patent medicine, liquor, and otber advertisements of doubtful influence. I'he lart^c circulation, the desiriible cliiss of readers, nndthe neat and convenient form, rend' rw thin Journal a choice medium for reaching the attention of the masses. EDITORIAL NOTES, PestlfferOUS.—Tho dry season appears to be favorable to tlie life of insect pests. The grasshoppers in some places are bad; worse in Colorado and adjoining Territories than in California. They are literally devastating a large extent of inhabited country, destroying millions of property in growing crops. In our Santa Clara valley the caterpillars are de- stroying the fruit crop in some orchards; others they have not troubled. We saw hun- dreds of aijple trees in Mr. Gould's and Mr. Watkins' orchards with the foliage stripped from them. They are not the tent caterpillar, but when not eating the leaves cluster to- gether on the large limbs and trunks of the trees. When in this position it would not be a difficult matter to- destroy great numbers of them, but we saw no disposition to attempt their destruction, and were told that there is so little profit in fruit culture that it would not pay to spend the time necessary to kill them. Also the live-oak trees are infested with caterpillars—a difl'or
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