. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California. from the organization of the Buhach Producing andManufacturing Company furnished the capital for inaugurating the indus-try. From the blossoms grown upon the buhach plantation in Merced theinsect powder now so generally known as buhach has been flowers are shipped from the plantation to Stockton, where the mill islocated in which the buhach is manufactured. At present the company has about three hundred acres under cultiva-tion in this plant, and the area is
. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California. from the organization of the Buhach Producing andManufacturing Company furnished the capital for inaugurating the indus-try. From the blossoms grown upon the buhach plantation in Merced theinsect powder now so generally known as buhach has been flowers are shipped from the plantation to Stockton, where the mill islocated in which the buhach is manufactured. At present the company has about three hundred acres under cultiva-tion in this plant, and the area is being annually increased as the demandfor the powder becomes greater. Its cultivation requires careful and intel-ligent supervision, and it cannot be successfully grown except by requires at least three years for the seed to grow plants capable of pro-ducing a paying crop of flowers, and then the plant will continue to producefor four or five years longer, although it is in its prime and most productivewhen four and five years old. It grows to a height of about thirty inches, 566 TRANSACTIONS OF THE. SECOND DISTRICT AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION. 567 and is planted in rows four feet apart and from fifteen to twenty-four inchesapart in the row. The flowers are generally harvested in the latter part ofMay, or when in full bloom. The stalks are cut at the roots of the plant,and then by hand the flowers are broken off by passing the stems througha sort of comb that detaches the flowers, which fall into a box and are thencarried to the drying ground, where they are spread upon sheets and ex-posed to the rays of the sun during the day, being often turned in themeantime, and at night are covered to prevent them from absorbing anymoisture. The perfect drying of the flowers is a most important operation,as, in order to retain the volatile oil which gives to the powder its insecti-cide properties, it is very necessary that the flowers should be dried quicklyand thoroughly, and b
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