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full line of garden vegetable growth. It is an extensive and pleasing- 

 display. 



A. B. Gilbert shows green corn, shelled early corn, squashes, white 

 corn, etc. 



W. C. Hull exhibits some fine watermelons. 



Some great pumpkins and squashes are shown, with no exhibitor's 

 name. 



D. Hunt, fine large pumpkins. 



E. L. Hyde, some fine potatoes 



There is in the lower main hall a fine exhibit of dried fruit, also 

 rare varieties of grapes, and some choice green fruit, but there is 

 never a name, card, or label to indicate to whom the credit belongs. 

 It is surmised that they are shown by General Bidwell of Chico. 



A. J. Sliner shows bags of choice wheat, three thousand five hun- 

 dred and eighty-four pounds yield from twenty acres of the kind 

 known as " Pride of Battle;" also two thousand eight hundred and 

 ninety-nine pounds from twenty acres of the brand known as 

 " Patent Office." 



H. Cronkite exhibits in bags, samples of white Tuscany wheat, 

 white Chile wheat, and Waterloo oats. 



G. W. Colby exhibits one sack Australian wheat, one of club wheat, 

 one of proper wheat, and one of Sonoma wheat. 



There is shown by the Wheatland Grange boxes of debris, soil 

 before and after debris deposit, etc. One sample of virgin soil prior 

 to debris deposit, is labeled as producing eighty-one bushels of barley 

 per acre. The same is shown after deposit, when it produced but 

 five bushels of barley, and that even after several years of good cul- 

 tivation. The Grange shows also a great block of the sediment as 

 packed by deposit after having been carried for miles down the 

 rivers. It is the regular slickens. There is shown also a box of the 

 :< white sand " deposit as found over thirteen feet deep over fine bot- 

 tom land of richest character. All these soils are taken from S. D. 

 Woods' ranch, one mile from Wheatland. 



One of the most interesting exhibits is that made by the College of 

 Agriculture, University of California, showing great varieties of 

 grain, in stalk and seed, grown without irrigation. Also samples of 

 grains from other sections than California. 



Mrs. Hill's California insect powder is shown in quantity. 



The Oregon blood purifier and liver regulator is exhibited by 

 William Plunder & Co., Portland. 



Mrs. Quick, a well known lady, in a quiet corner of the lower hall, 

 has a neat exhibit, fresh each day, of button-hole bouquets. 



Mrs. E. F. Aiken exhibits a large quantity of excellent sun-dried 

 fruit in variety. 



Mr. E. S. Hart has a good display of sun-dried fruit, varied and 

 plentiful. 



A. I. Rider. exhibits some fine cheese. 



F. Ludeman exhibits in his floral department some real curiosities, 

 such as growing plants of tea, coffee, camphor, the pineapple, and 

 the Kaura tea plant of Australia. 



Williamson & Co. show growing orange and lemon trees, and some 

 remarkable examples of rapid fruit tree growth in California, all of 

 which is very interesting. 



J. F. Cooper has in the small upper hall a case of musical instru- 



