380 



TRANSACTIONS OF THE 



Average Precipitation in Fresno County. 



B 



> 



•a 



s 



3 

 a 



e 



> 



B 



c 



5! 



g 



B 



Big Dry Creel* 



Borden 



Buchanan 



Firebaugh 



Fort Miller _. 



Fresno 



Hamptonville 



Kingsburgh 



Centerville 



New Idria 



3.62 

 1.42 

 2.60 

 1.10 

 1.34 

 1.21 

 1.71 

 1.50 

 2.42 

 2.59 



3.07 

 1.61 

 3.12 

 1.31 

 1.69 

 2.02 

 3.18 

 1.58 

 3.00 

 3.21 



3.08 

 1.38 

 3.00 

 1.58 

 6.40 

 2.96 

 2.29 

 1.50 

 2.97 

 7.03 



.69 

 1.21 

 4.33 



.98 

 1.82 

 1.93 

 3.42 

 1.54 

 2.77 

 1.78 



.22 



.49 



.09 



.47 



1.36 



1.11 



.70 



.52 



.81 



1.47 



.12 

 .17 

 .14 

 .47 



none 

 .50 

 .10 

 .16 

 .31 



1.05 



.04 

 .02 

 none 

 none 

 none 

 none 

 none 

 none 

 none 

 .01 



none 

 none 

 none 

 none 

 none 

 none 

 none 

 none 

 none 

 none 



.02 

 none 

 .89 

 .09 

 .05 

 .20 

 none 

 .04 

 .05 

 .13 



.67 

 .40 

 .65 

 .39 

 .19 

 .85 

 1.42 

 .35 

 .84 

 .60 



1.47 

 .91 



1.26 

 .20 



3.35 

 .53 



125 

 .42 

 .88 

 .55 



3.28 



.98 



3.46 



.19 



8.31 



.41 



2.42 



1.20 



2.30 



1.02 



TULARE COUNTY. 



Tulare is well adapted to the growth of the cereals, and in the produc- 

 tion of wheat it leads all other counties in the State. A considerable 

 amount of land is also seeded to barley and Egyptian corn every year. 

 Other grain crops are grown, but not to any great extent. It is difficult to 

 make an estimate of the yield of grain in the county this year, but it will 

 exceed 7,000,000 bushels. The acreage is much larger than any previous 

 year, and is placed at 450,000 acres. All fruits common to semi-tropical 

 and temperate latitudes grow in some portion of Tulare County, and many 

 of them ripen earlier than in any other part of the State. For several 

 successive years Tulare has had the first ripe fruit in the San Francisco 

 market. A large amount of fruit is shipped from Visalia every year to 

 Arizona, New Mexico, and to different parts of California, and in the near 

 future a larger amount of dried and canned fruit will be exported from the 

 county. The fruits that do best in the valley are stone fruits, such as the 

 peach, nectarine, apricot, plum, prune, etc. Those requiring a cooler clime 

 grow well in the mountains. In the lower foothill region is a large area of 

 country in which the orange, lemon, and lime grow to perfection. 



Visalia, Tulare County. 



The rainfall at Visalia, Tulare County, was taken from the United 

 States Signal Service annual reports, and extends from July, 1877, to 

 June 15-, 1883, on which date the Signal Service station at that point was 

 discontinued: 



