. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. California Agriculturist and Live Stock Journal. l)$ We have in California liundreds of farms, situated in the foothills, which could be made to j'ield a handsome revenue by setting out orchards of late apples. Late apples always command a good price and are never a drug in the market. Early fruit must be sold as soon as picked, whatever the i^riee; but late or winter apples seldom have to be sold for less than two dollars per box. Besides this, there are many o
. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. California Agriculturist and Live Stock Journal. l)$ We have in California liundreds of farms, situated in the foothills, which could be made to j'ield a handsome revenue by setting out orchards of late apples. Late apples always command a good price and are never a drug in the market. Early fruit must be sold as soon as picked, whatever the i^riee; but late or winter apples seldom have to be sold for less than two dollars per box. Besides this, there are many other fruits which are adapted to the foot-hill climate. Tl^''^" i** i^o better vineyard land in the world, and it is surpris- ing that more vines have not been planted in the mountain sections. It is far easier to cultivate grapes on sidling laud than to i^low and reap grains, and that, too, when the ex- pense of harvesting hilly laud is so much heavier than valley land. A few years wiU probably make a wonderful change in the hills of California.—Ex. Value of Evbegkeens Among Fruit Trees. —A well-growu evergrgreen tree gives off con- tinually an exodium of warmth and moisture that reaches a distance of its area in height; and when the tree-planters advocate shelter- belts, surrounding a tract of orchard of fifty or more acres, when the influence of such belt can only trace a distance of the height of the trees in said belt, they do that which will prove of little value. To ameliorate cli- mate, to assist in prevention of injury from extreme climatic cold in Winter, and of the frosting of the germ-bud of fruit in the Spring, all orchards should have evergreen trees planted in and among them indiscrim- ately, at a distance of not more than feet apart. Such a course pursued will give health to the tree and be productive of more regular, uniform cro2is of fruit.—Ex. Planting Foeest-teees.—For the purpose of making tall, limbless trees valuable for timber, close pl
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