STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. - I i 



ANNUAL METEOROLOGICAL REVIEW 



OF THE 



STATE OF CALIFORNIA DURING THE YEAR 1887, 



BY THE 



Meteorological Department of the State Agricultural Society. 



Collated and compiled by Sergeant James A. Baewick, Observer Signal Corps, U. S. A., 

 and Meteorologist to the State Board of Agriculture. 



Sacramento, March 1, 1888. 



Edwin F. Smith, Secretary State Agricultural Society : 



Sir : I have the honor to submit the following annual meteorological 

 review and brief notes on the resources of California, for the year 1887. 

 The meteorological portion will be found to be quite complete and extensive 

 in its records, and covering periods of from one to thirty-nine years. The 

 brief notes on the resources of every county in the State, will be valuable 

 because reaching a desirable class of people through this report. I have 

 endeavored to keep out as much as possible the flowery descriptions of every 

 little hamlet, and to give a general idea of the resources of each county 

 represented. 



Through the courtesy of Mr. Ellwood Cooper, of Santa Barbara, I am 

 enabled to give his pamphlet entire, on the culture of the olive. As this par- 

 ticular tree will soon be planted extensively in our foothills and valleys, 

 the present report will be valuable in that respect. There is so much 

 instructive data contained in this report, that it would be useless to mention 

 each particular article. 



It is to be hoped that our next Legislature will give us a State Weather 

 Service, and in so doing, enable this State to furnish accurate statistical evi- 

 dences of the climate, as well as the resources of one of the most prosper- 

 ous and rapidly advancing States in the Union. 

 Very respectfully, your obedient servant, 



Sergeant JAMES A. BARWICK, 



Observer Signal Corps, etc. 



RESOURCES AND CLIMATE OF THE SACRAMENTO VALLEY COUNTIES. 



The following reports show the general meteorological features, resources, 

 etc., of the counties in the Sacramento Valley, composed of Sacramento, 

 Solano, Yolo, Sutter, Yuba, Colusa, Butte, Tehama, and Shasta. 



