HEI^ORT 



In addition to the ordinary transactions of the society, the list of arti- 

 cles to which premiums were awarded at the fairs, reports of commit- 

 tees, etc., the present volume will contain the very able address of the 

 Honorable John Bidwell, before the JSTorthern District Agricultural 

 Societ}' at its late Fair ; the practical and statistical annual address of 

 Dr. E. S. Holden, late President of the San Joaquin Valley Agricultural 

 Society; the learned and eloquent address of Dr. John F. Morse, before 

 the State Society at the last State Fair, and a very valuable and inter- 

 esting address by the Honorable A. A. Sai'gent on the same occasion, at 

 the request of tho Board, upon the subject of an Agricultural and Me- 

 chanic Arts College, with especial reference to the means by which the 

 legislation of Congress granting lands for that 2:)urpose may be made 

 available to the State; all of which, and especiallj^ the latter, at this 

 time contain suggestions and information valuable to every citizen, and 

 of great importance to correct legislation iipon the several subjects of 

 which they respectively treat. 



Also, several letters and communications upon the subject of cotton 

 culture in California, from gentlemen, some of whom are engaged in the 

 business in the southern portion of the State ; a very valuable repqrt of 

 the committee of the society on vine culture and wine making; and an 

 important communication by the pioneer silk grower of the Pacific coast, 

 Mr. L. Prevost, upon that very interesting business. 



The volume will also contain statistical tables of the agricultural and 

 other productions of the State for eighteen hundred and sixty-five, care- 

 fully compiled from the reports of the County, Disti'ict, and Township 

 Assessors, gratuitously furnished, at the request of the Board, upon a 

 plan recommended in another portion of this communication, from the 

 annual report of the Survej^or-General, and from various other sources, 

 business houses, etc., making a fuller exhibit of these productions than 

 has ever before been officially published — together with very valuable 

 and interesting descriptive reports of several counties and districts, and 

 their resources, by their resi^ective Assessors. 



In it will also be found, as an entire new feature in the transactions 

 of the society, or that of any other like society, with one or two excep- 

 tions as to some of the subjects mentioned, reports of eminent and scien- 

 tific gentlemen, treating upon the various subjects bearing upon natural 

 history, agriculture, and mining. 



