222 TRANSACTIONS OF THE 



REPORTS OF COUNTY ASSESSORS. 



On the seventh day of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, the 

 Secretary of the State Board of Agricultiwe issued ar)d mailed to each 

 of the County and District Assessors in the State the following circular, 

 together with the blanks to which it refers for the collection and return 

 of agricultural statistics. A copy of the blanks for the returns only are 

 given here, as they contain all the names of the articles required to be 

 collected. In response to the circular, most of the Assessors returned 

 the statistical tables more or less completely tilled, and many of them 

 made valuable descriptive rejjorts of their counties or districts, which 

 are hereto appended : 



EooMS OF TifE State Agricultural Society, 

 Sacramento, Februarv 7, 1865. 



To the Assessor of County : 



Dear Sir: — The State Board of Agriculture are veiy desirous of 

 obtaining through some reliable channel full and correct agricultural 

 statistics of the State for eighteen hundred and sixty-five. 



They believe there is no other way in which a citizen can render so 

 valuable a service to the State as in aiding them in the accomplishment 

 of this object. They also believe that the Assessors of the several dis- 

 tricts and counties, from the nature of their duties, possess greater facil- 

 ities for collecting such statistics than any other persons ; and that the 

 correct business habits necessarilj^ possessed by a person to whom his 

 fellow citizens have intrusted so important duties as those of Assessor 

 vpill give to statistics collected by him the stanip of character and reli- 

 ability. For the above reasons the Board have instructed me to request 

 you to aid them in thi§ undertaking. Believing that you Avill cheerfully 

 consent to do so, 1 luive carefully prepared the accompanying blanks for 

 the collection of such statistics us are indicated in them, and those on 

 the opposite side of this sheet for your return of the same in a condensed 

 form to this otiice. None but the most important and easiest obtained 

 are called for. The number of acres sown of the different kinds of crops, 

 the number of trees planted of the different varieties, and so on, you 

 can obtain very easily by fastening the collecting blanks in your assess- 

 ing book which you carry with you, and questioning each party as yon 

 assess them. 



The amount of the productions for eighteen hundred and sixty-five 



