STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 237 



TWELFTH ANNUAL REVIEW 



"1 THE 



Dried Fruit, Raisin, Prune, Almond, Walnut, Peanut, Comb, and Ex- 

 tracted Honey Crop of California, for the Year 1886. 



By George W. Meade & Co., San Francisco. 



It is with feelings of unalloyed pleasure that we this year again apply 

 ourselves to our annual task of carefully reviewing the progress that our 

 State is making in the lines above mentioned. 



We say pleasure, because at last it would seem that the various products 

 of this wonderful State are taking the place finally, and we believe per- 

 manently, to which they are now and always have been entitled in the 

 great markets of the United States. 



That the products of California (the Italy, the Spain, and the France of 

 America combined) should so long have been kept in the background has 

 not been due to a lack of merit or to an inferiority of the products from 

 any of the countries above named, as to the fact that to the great body of 

 American people it has only lately become known that within our own bor- 

 ders, and incorporated in our great sisterhood of States, there is one bright 

 particular gem — one brilliant diamond in the glorious setting — one partic- 

 ular section of our broad country, famed throughout the world ; the land 

 of flowers and sunshine, of song and of wine — "California." 



That with the energy, the enterprise, and the love of every Californian 

 for California, ever abiding and steadfast, it is not surprising that, despite 

 discouragements year by year, the products of her soil should finally be 

 pushed to the front and meet with due recognition everywhere, and crowd 

 the imported goods to the very wall. Until, however, the last box of Span- 

 ish raisins, the last pound of French prunes, the last bale of imported 

 almonds and walnuts have disappeared from the markets of America for- 

 ever — then, and not till then, will the Californians call off "their dogs of 



war." 



Until that time it will be an uncompromising, unceasing, and unrelent- 

 ing warfare, and, as everybody knows, when the Californians start in to 

 do anything they "know no such word as fail." 



We present the following statistics of — 



THE PRODUCT OF 1886. 



Raisins, twenty-pound boxes 703,000 



Honey, extracted, pounds 0,000,000 



Honey, comb, pounds 800,000 



Beeswax, pounds .. 80,000 



French Prunes, pounds. 2,000,000 



German Prunes, pounds 125,000 



Apples, sun-dried, pounds 300,000 



Peaches, sun-dried, pounds 750,000 



Plums, sun-dried, pounds 500,000 



Pears, sun-dried, pounds 50,000 



Grapes, sun-dried, pounds 175,000 



Apricots, sun-dried, pounds 150,000 



