Show AMERICAN LETTE 11 how they dry fruit in california editor enquire I 1 see in serui serm weekly enquirer you have the account of a sad affair viz the bankley firo fire but bat you have no account of the bursting of the water tank which occur sunday night it was at first supposed to have hare been blown up by giant powder but upon further examination it ia generally conceded now to 0 o have been caused by the weight or tho the water and the hoops hoaps not being strone enough to withstand the pressure oar fellow townsman A K Tho wag the recipient of a eur surprise prise some time a ago go by a brother and his hig family dropping in on an him this brother arthur Arthurw when hena a boy wasa was a resident with his bis parents in salt bait lake lahe bat like many others in thosa thoas days caught the california gold fever and left utah in I 1 1855 and this is his first visit since he left mr thon anns family consists of wife and three well educated and ta leniel musicians they are taken what wi would term here a jolly good family mr is a farmer in san joaquin joaquia co california Cali lornia he has raised and marketed this season 1700 acres of wheat averaging 36 bushels per acre 2 aco acres of barley 40 bushels per sere his hia teams are now plowing for next seasons crop he uses three disc plows w which turns over 40 acres per day besides smaller plows his grain is all harvested with headers and sacked in the field rea ready for market no hauling or st blacking ing grain in the straw in tb that at sect section io of country it is also safe to say aay they do sot lot irrigate mr thornton Thorn toa sent bent for some of his dried fruit some of which may be placed on oa exhibition at the fair it is 18 much lighter colored than that raised here being bleached the recipe for bleaching is as follows build a sm small email all air tight light smoke house with slats on the sides bides to hold your traps place your fruit on these trays tray 3 as eoon as cut and place them in the smoke house a small fire of sulphur underneath a I 1 1 I shut up the door tight so as net to let adv of the smoke escape teave leave it in two or three hours and 5 3 our fruit is ready to put in sun to dry these trays can be made mada 24 to 36 inches and placed in tiers one above the other he also claims we over ove er produce in our arnit and that if would call out at least halt of our fruit while it is emall email we would have as aa lauy bushels bushela but much larger peaches apples etc I 1 write this for the benefit of our fruit raisers rai sero DRUMMOND american fork oct 8 1897 |