Show Pollination by Wasps Saved California Figs The California fig crop was saved by bythe bythe the action of ot a Fresno farmer who had bad laid out a GO CO acre fig orchard and who was unable amiable ble to gather a crop The trees had all the the- appearance of ot health but the fruit failed to properly develop de George C. C was In this predicament predicament predicament ment and to solve salye his difficulty he made a trip to Smyrna He ne found that It was the custom of the growers there thereto to gather wormy fruit from the wild fig Hg trees tr-ces and hang It among the cultivated cultivated cultivated trees Little wasps from the wormy fruit were essential to pollinate the cultivated orchard He Imported some of the wild trees and went nt through the same procedure and the effect upon his orchard was magical The result Is that the fi growing fig Industry In In- Is now an Important one |