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in a word, the Vacaville horticulturist is a manufacturer who lias all the 

 facilities for production possessed by others in his line, and is at the same 

 time assured by his location double the market price for his commodity 

 that his rivals may hope to obtain. Tartarian cherries, June 17, 1887, 

 quoted in San Francisco, at from 25 to 35 cents per box, sold when the 

 Vacaville grower was marketing his crop, at from $1 50 to $2 50 for the 

 same sized packages. 



What has been said of the early ripening of fruits and the high prices 

 paid for the first arrivals applies with equal force to vegetables. A large 

 area in Vacaville Township is devoted to market gardens, and several 

 hundred carloads of beans, squashes, tomatoes, and green corn, are annu- 

 ally shipped to all points in California and the East. 



Next to fruit growing ranks the growing of "garden truck," both in 

 importance and profit. Because of the small outlay necessary, the busi- 

 ness is very attractive to men of small means, and the foundation of many 

 handsome fortunes have been laid, by the crops from a few acres. On 

 account of the high prices realized, the business is altogether different 

 from the raising of "garden sass," where it is more trouble to sell than to 

 grow it, when the "truck farmer," poorly paid, becomes, also, a peddler; 

 but here all is changed. Even the homely and prosaic potato called early 

 from its little bed and marketed by the Vacaville grower for shipment to 

 Chicago or Portland, at five cents a pound, becomes invested with quite a 

 sentimental glamour. 



Rainfall at Vacaville, Solano County. 



. The following table of rainfall was furnished by Mr. A. V. Stevenson, and 

 shows a record of rainfall by months, years, and seasons, from 1880 to date: 



: Up to February 1, 1888. 



