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branch of business cannot be successfully and profitably engaged in in 

 tbis county — the real drawback consists in your unwillingness to risk 

 money in the investment. 



The Clear Lake Dairy has a reputation that of itself is a guarantee 

 of wealth; resulting from the business there prosecuted — and what is 

 there to prevent you from establishing dairies hero that can compete 

 with that one, far-famed as it is? Havo you ever known the time here 

 when "A No. 1 " first class cheese did not find ready sale in the county? 

 Is there no longer a demand for first quality butter? Certainly those 

 two great essentials are required in the world s domestic economy to as 

 great an extent as they ever were, and yet men have grown wealthy in 

 the production of these articles when the population of the world was 

 more limited than it is at the present time. Yet you will find men ready 

 to state that the yield from twenty-five cows will supply the entire de- 

 mand of Yreka, and that one ordinary sized dairy will glut the market 

 in the whole count}'. To them I have only one reply, viz: that their 

 vision is limited to the horizon that overhangs the boundaries of Siski- 

 you County only. 



A few suggestions, on general principles, and I will leave the subject 

 with you. Take good care of all that you have. See that nothing is 

 lost from want of proper care and attention. Why is it that dealers 

 find it profitable to import garden seed from the East? Because you 

 buy from them from year to year. We live in a far more fertile latitude, 

 are blessed with longer seasons, and a more genial climate. Yet you 

 supply yourselves with imported seed, when your own vegetables fall 

 to the ground from whence they sprang, unnoticed and uncared for. 

 Carry this same survey into 3'our fields, and how much greater and 

 more serious becomes the waste! Tons of straw suffered to bleach and 

 wither away, your cattle perishing for want of Winter supplies, and all 

 grumbling over tough and unpalatable beefsteaks. Again, buy only 

 what you need, and at the time that you need it, and buy always the 

 best articles that you can afford. It is the poorest economy to buy 

 cheap and indifferent goods, either for food or clothing. The physicians' 

 bills, and the repeated demands for new supplies, will make the cheap 

 bargains by far the most costly in the end. Try to have a place for 

 everything, and keep everything in its place. Endeavor to have a time 

 for everything, and do everything in its proper time. A continual clash- 

 ing of employment is the surest way to produce disorder and confusion. 

 A word here to the female head of the house — never engage in other 

 employment to the neglect of breakfast, dinner, and supper. If j-ou 

 do, I'll guarantee that you will have a frowning and complaining house- 

 hold. 



The advantages to the leading pursuits of mankind, and to all of the 

 important interests of society, from an enlightened and advancing sys- 

 tem of agriculture, is a proposition the truth of which is so patent that 

 it needs no argument to establish it. But we cannot hope for the 

 inauguration of- such a system, nor even for the success of individual 

 farmers, until those who are engaged in tilling the soil are well informed 

 in the theory and practice of their pursuit; and without at all detract- 

 ing from the value of good papers and books on agricultural topics, 

 I assert that the knowledge most useful to farmers generally is that de- 

 rived from experience and observation. But as the experience and 

 observation of no single individual embraces eveiy department of farm- 

 ing, and the innumerable modes and expedients resorted to in order to 

 secure desired results, it follows that there must be an interchange of 



