STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



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owners finding that interest much more profitable than raising grain. 

 There have been shipped over the wharf at Crescent City this season, 

 384,710 pounds of butter. The butter made in this county is a very 

 superior article, commanding the highest market price. The shipment 

 this year was less than previous years, on account of dry weather making 

 the pasturage poor. 



Average Precipitation in Del Norte County. 



HUMBOLDT COUNTY. 



For general small farming, dairying, stock raising, and lumbering, it is 

 not excelled by any county in the State. Its inexhaustible river-bottom 

 lands produce enormous crops of all the cereals and fruits common to the 

 temperate zone, while its natural prairies in Mattole Valley, on Bear River 

 Ridge, and the Bald Hills abound in rich pasture for cattle and sheep. 



The average rainfall is 32 inches; the mean temperature of January, 40°; 

 of July, 58°. Droughts and failure of crops are unknown. Pastures remain 

 green by the influence of heavy fogs, long after the winter rains have ceased 

 and the southern counties are scorched brown. 



This county is exceedingly rich in its vast forests of redwood, with its 

 rivers, the Mattole, Bear, Eel, Elk, Mare, Redwood, Trinity, and Klamath, 

 abounding in salmon and smaller fish. These streams are of but little 

 utility for navigation. Eel River is navigable only a few miles from its 

 mouth, by small ocean steamers to Port Kenyon, on Salt River. Frequent 

 shoals render them ail useless even for small crafts, the major part of the 

 year. 



The principal productions of the county are oats, potatoes, peas, butter, 

 and wool. The climatic conditions seem peculiarly adapted to oats, they 

 forming the surest and most profitable crop. Yields of one hundred bushels 

 and over to the acre are not at all uncommon on bottom land near the coast. 

 Peas require a rich, heavy soil, and here they find the conditions to insure 

 a good crop. Barley yields enormous crops; the grain is plump, and the 

 weight above the average. It is not sold for export, as prices seldom war- 

 rant it. Butter is one of the leading articles of production. The length of 

 the dairy, season, the low temperature of the summers, the abundance of 

 pasture, are all conducive to butter making. Wool stands next to lumber 

 in value of export. 



The climate is equitable and genial, with sufficient fog near the coast to 

 prolong the green pasture; further inland, among the mountains, fogs are 

 infrequent, the air is lighter, and the temperature higher in summer and 

 lower in winter. Apples, pears, plums, and cherries grow to remarkable 

 size and perfection throughout the valleys a few miles from the coast. 

 Peaches and melons of good flavor are raised at Camp Grant, about 50 

 miles from the sea. All small fruits and berries do well anywhere in the 

 county. 



