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ing orange grove on the valley lands of the Sacramento, and there are 

 others equally good. Lands are very cheap and there is everything to 

 attract the home-seeker. The display of grains, grasses, corn, vegetables^ 

 and fruit is a large and attractive one. The exhibit of apples is the best 

 in the Pavilion, some specimens weighing two and one fourth pounds each. 

 There are fine pears, peaches, plums, prunes, quinces, pomegranates, wine, 

 raisin, and table grapes, and nuts.. 



This concludes a review of the exhibits, and an imperfect sketch of the 

 resources, advantages, and developments of the ten counties. We believe 

 that these exhibits point unerringly to a new era for this State; to the rapid 

 subdivision of the great land holdings; to their occupation by families in 

 ten, twenty, and thirty-acre tracts; to the sure extinction of blanket-carry- 

 ing labor, and to the substitution therefor of small land owners, doing 

 their own work, and to a great increase in population and in production. 

 Your committee have been impressed with the success of the exhibition of 

 this year, and with the great good which is being done for every branch of 

 industry in the State. In order that the exhibits made may have a greater 

 educational effect upon the thousands who see them, we venture to suggest 

 that exhibitors should be required to accompany their exhibits with a his- 

 tory of their production. To illustrate our meaning: an orchardist makes 

 an exhibit of fine peaches; in order that the lesson of their exhibition may 

 be complete and effective, an account of the soil, climate, tillage, and care 

 of the trees, and the manner of picking and packing, should be given. A 

 case of wine of superior quality is exhibited; an account of the exposure, 

 soil, subsoil, temperatures, rainfall, tillage, pruning, picking, and manipu- 

 lation of the grapes, would teach others how to arrive at the same degree 

 of excellence. And so it would be with all the other exhibits of your Fair. 

 From the mass of reports thus made, much of interest and instruction 

 could be published. , 



R. W. WATERMAN, Chairman. 



L. H. McINTOSH. 



H. W. SEALE. 



F. C. DeLONG. 



PARIS KILBURN. 



