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their products; see that advantages are not taken of their want of knowl- 

 edge of the resources and yield of the particular crops they are engaged in 

 producing. " Knowledge is power," without which the actual producer is 

 placed in a position where others reap the benefits of his labors. We desire 

 the industrious immigrant to locate among us, and to till the soil of our 

 winterless State, where snow is a curiosity and blizzards unknown. After 

 thus inducing him to come we should not neglect informing him fully as 

 to our manner of marketing products, otherwise, it will require years to 

 obtain that knowledge, through the expensive school of experience, which 

 in its course leaves many by the wayside with health and means gone, and 

 with not strength enough to again rally and profit by their course of study. 

 To this end we should have a system of information that will keep the pro- 

 ducer well informed as to the prospective outlook for the sale of the fruits 

 of his labor. This Board have endeavored to bring about the proper sys- 

 tem, but up to the present have only partially succeeded. 



LIVE STOCK. 



Of the interest this society has taken in the encouragement of live stock 

 breeding, we quote the Turf, Field, and Farm, one of the foremost live stock 

 journals of the Union: "The State Agricultural Society of California has 

 done much for the encouragement of breeding on the Pacific Coast. Unlike 

 some other State societies, it has steadily favored speed tests, and now the 

 horses bred and reared in California enjoy world-wide fame." 



The climatic influence over the development of live stock of all kinds in 

 this State is now commanding the attention of the world. The interest 

 taken in our thoroughbreds that visited the East during the season of 1885, 

 to cope with the speediest of that section of the United States, was most 

 noticeable. Two-year olds were challenged, and the claim set up that 

 they were three-year olds, before examination. The towering forms of our 

 youngsters, when placed among those of the same age, reared in the great 

 race producing States of the East, caused many expressions of wonder- 

 ment: and the people were loth to believe that they were of the age repre- 

 sented. The visits of our several racing stables at the East has awakened 

 the breeders of that section to the fact that we not- only have a land of 

 "milk and honey," but a climate that will fit colts to run, and develop 

 three months earlier than will theirs. Heretofore we have been looked 

 upon as a myth. Whatever we said was disregarded; whatever we claimed 

 was disbelieved. We know of nothing that can better portray the feeling 

 of eastern breeders than an excerpt from one of the leading racing journals 

 of the United States. We quote "Vigilant," in the New York Spirit of the 

 Times. Speaking of Tyrant's wonderful performances of 1885, he says: 



Who thought of Tyrant at this time last year? No one hut his owner's party. Goano, 

 Richmond, and Brookwood, of the East, were the idols we folded to our hearts, and fondly 

 imagined them invincible. How often we visited Goano's box, and could only look for- 

 ward to a bright day in May, when he would bear the orange jacket proudly in the front 

 of the fleet at "The Bluff," and into the stretch, and have his name inscribed with George 

 Kinney's, the "Duke's," and Aristides'. And yet, far away in California, a party of men 

 had the white-legged Tyrant carefully hidden away — "a real good thing." And how close 

 they kept it. Hardly had Spring opened than they tried him with Nellie Peyton; and 

 their hopes rose when he beat her. But, oh ! how cold-blooded they laid their plans. 

 They were not satisfied ; they wanted "a line." • 



Nellie Peyton was sent to the races, and beat Jim Douglas. That settled it; and the 

 California gold began to dribble eastward, with instructions to take the best odds. That 

 was a tip; but the colt only receded a few points. Then the stable came East. Still the 

 public stood by its eastern idols. They landed at Jerome. Tyrant did the best trial of 

 any colt on the ground; but still the public ignored him. He hadn't the prestige of a 

 public record. We reported his trial in The Spirit, but the public wouldn't believe it, and 



