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all stock purposes, and are proving the fact with commendable diligence. 

 The time is not far distant when better methods of conducting dairy- 

 farms will be understood and followed, and when we can safely chal- 

 lenge the world to surpass — perhaps to equal — California, in any branch 

 of stock raising. If it shall justly lay within our power to issue the 

 like challenge respecting well appointed dairy farms, our State will be 

 vastly the gainer; if not, the fault will lie with the men and not in the 

 country they inhabit. Too little attention has been given to genuine 

 dairying, and a change of policy in the matter is much needed and 

 hoped for. 



At the Pavilion, a large number of exhibitors made profuse and meri- 

 torious displays of home manufactures and imported goods. Although 

 the department for agricultural machinery and implements had been 

 removed to the Park, thus affording much more room than usual, the 

 halls were all occupied, and the necessary economizing of space created 

 a sense of discomfort. Owing to the yearly increasing interest shown 

 in our Fairs, it seems almost impossible to provide ample room for exhib- 

 itors and the public; renewed efforts to accomplish this will be made at 

 the ensuing Fair, and we hope to succeed in fully accommodating guests 

 as well as participants. 



We invite attention to our record of the creditable displays made. 

 Considered as the exponents of our progress in almost every depart- 

 ment of domestic industry, enterprise, and invention, the articles entered 

 by competitors in such large variety are not only interesting and in- 

 structive, but serve also to emphasize the value of the conveniences and 

 labors of the societ} r . 



AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS. 



It is due to both our importers and local manufacturers to mention, 

 that the department for agricultural implements and labor-saving 

 machinery, established at the Fair grounds in September last, was 

 meritorious in the highest degree, and contained an aggregation of the 

 necessities and conveniences for farming that would have done credit 

 to any State or country. 



Superior in make, elegant in finish, excellent in construction, and of 

 the best approved patterns, they easily withstood every applied test, 

 and were generally pronounced to be completely, adapted to their re- 

 spective purposes, ami reasonable in prices. 



MANUFACTURES. 



With all her great natural wealth and resources, and notwithstanding 

 her commercial advantages, mineral deposits, and agricultural blessings, 

 California never will attain to the possible full measure of genuine pros- 

 perity until there shall be established and in continuous operation a 

 variety and a large number of factoi'ies that will enable her own citizens 

 to reap the benefit that comes from transforming raw material into mer- 

 chantable shapes. 



It has not escaped attention that our soil and climate render prolific, 

 not our mother earth and the lower Darwinian grades alone, but human- 

 ity as well; that from Modoc to San Diego, there is a rapidly rising 

 generation of men and women; and that we are bound by the highest 



