270 TRANSACTIONS OP THE STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The above are wholesale prices at San Francisco, in gold and silver 

 currency, and many of them assume an importance to the farmer, as fur- 

 nishing a basis upon which to make his calculations for the future. A 

 system by which the farmers of our State could be periodically, say once 

 in two months, informed of the state of the crops and the ruling prices, 

 would be of inestimable value to the agriculturist, and with the co-op- 

 eration of the farmers, this Department will endeavor, in the coming 

 year, to put such a system in successful operation. 



