| Show bea PEA phak PEAK CULTURE bec bee cites as an example of profitable truit raising 51 that an of yol lIo leonear 0 near sacramento by y the name of C W reed expects to realize from tile the crop of his pear orchard this year over sj 2003 per acre in fact it is baid said that he has refused an offer to contract f for or the entire crop at the rate named if california fruit raisers can do so well in cultivating pears the people of ol this territory ought to f feel eel encouraged to try it more extensively for there is probably no country in the tile world better adapted for tile the culture of this fruit than many of the valleys in this I 1 region pear trees indeed do better in many places in this territory than any other kind of trees owins to the presence of alkali or mineral in the soil which while not favorable to the growth th of some other fruits apparently ro t I 1 makes the pear thrive all the better no crop that we know of without it be mau man mangel or beets will do so well on anund land of this kind as pears and the wonder is that more of the owners of such land in this territory have hate not taken the hint lons ions since and planted out orchards of pear trees on their alkali ground |
