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For ploughing fifty acres twice, at $2 00 per acre 



Por making rows and sowing — five men for eight days, at §1 50 

 per day 



For wages of one man at $35 per month for four months — plough- 

 ing and taking care of same 



For 300 pounds of seed at 30 cents per pound 



Total 



$200 



60 



140 

 90 



•S490 



Very respectfully, your obedient servant, 



JOSE EUBIO. 



P. S. — The proper affidavits substantiating the above and foregoing 

 will be forwarded by next mail. 



STATEMENT OF LIVEEMORE, JEWETT & CO. 



UPOX COTTON CULTURE IN CALIFOKNIA. 



Bakersfield, Kern Eiver Island, ") 

 December 22d, 1865. J 



The cotton lands of Livermore, Jewett & Co. are located in the most 

 southern portion of Tulare County, on the borders of Kern Eiver, which 

 afli'ords a never foiling suppl}" of water, and may be used for the irriga- 

 tion of a tract of land ten miles in width, and twenty in lengtii. The 

 attempt to plant and produce a crop of cotton was commenced late in 

 the winter of the present year, from which time ditches and fences were 

 to be made, the new lands cleared and bi'oken up, and seed to be pro- 

 cured. The Tennessee Upland seed was obtained in New York, together 

 with the Sea Island seed, and the Mexican from the port of Mazatlan. 

 The long delay in procuring the seed made it impossible to carry out our 

 original intentions, and instead of planting before or by the fifteenth of 

 April, the first seed was not put in until the first day of May. The soil 

 was a rich, sandy loam, peculiar to the river bottoms of the lower coun- 

 try, and was densely covered with the switch willow, grown to the 

 height of ten feet ; yet so easil}^ were the willows removed with a com- 

 mon plough, that the cost of clearing was but seven dollars per acre. 

 After breaking and clearing the land, the whole one hundred and thirty- 

 three acres were thoroughly irrigated through ditches of about one mile 

 in length, and at a distance of forty rods apart. As fast as the land then 

 became dry, it was laid in ridges by throwing four furrows together. 

 The ordinary " bull-tongue " j)lough was then run through the centre of 



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