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pound for my seed, and much was damaged by being taken out of a 

 heated pile, or because it sweated in the hold of the vessel that brought 

 it, and made me much expense by replanting. Now I pro))ose to sell 

 my seeds for ten cents per pound, of ajjproved and reliable quality, 

 delivered at Los Angeles. I have procured seed from Mazatlan, Ilermo- 

 sillo, Salt Lake, (by favor of Brigham Young,) Pima Villages, Petit Gulf, 

 Mastadon, Carolina and Tennessee Upland. Next year my purpose is to 

 furnish seed to the people of the State. I have one hundred and eight 

 acres of laud in cultivation with cotton ; it is now in boll and beffinnincr 

 to open; and will, I think, make as good a crop as can be made any- 

 where. I am a candidate for the premium for cultivated lands of cotton, 

 and for the first one hundred bales of cotton, according to the laws of 

 eighteen hundred and sixty-two, page four hundred and nineteen, sections 

 two, three, and four. 



HOW TO PREVENT WORMS AND CATERPILLARS FROM ENTERING INTO COTTON 



AND OTHER CROPS. 



The worms and caterpillars that destroy and molest crops of all 

 kinds generallj^ get in from the surrounding grass fields, and keep on 

 travelling into the green and cultivated grounds, sometimes destroj'ing all 

 before them. This can be prevented, by running a deep and sharp ditch 

 around the cultivated grounds, into which the worms creep; but once in, 

 they vainly struggle to climb up the high, sharp bank of the ditch — the 

 more particularly if the inside bank of the ditch be formed of loose dirt; 

 the worms, in attempting to ascend it, fall back continually until they 

 become exhausted, give up the struggle, and travel along the level bot- 

 tom of the ditch in search of water, when they may be caught b}' thou- 

 sands in wells and deep holes made at intervals for them to fall into on 

 their travel. The husbandman cannot fail to find pleasure in seeing bis 

 multitudinous enemies imprisoned all around his grounds, although it is 

 an Uii'lv si<i;ht to observe them rolling and tumbling over each other in 

 the agonies of death. 



THE CEREALS CAN BE RAISED ON A LIMITED AMOUNT OF RAIN. 



In localities where it rains but to a limited extent, the cereals can be 

 raised successfully in the following simple manner, although I am afraid 

 that California farmers are too fast to adopt it: 



When it rains, break up the land thoroughl}^, and let it lie in fallow 

 until the following autumn ; plant in the dry soil in advance of the rainy 

 season; the growing crop will then have the benefit of all the rain that 

 falls, insuring an abundant crop almost any season, and avoiding failures 

 in bad seasons. Under any circumstances, laying the land in fallow and 

 exposing it to the acti/Dn of the elements of the atmospl)cre, is good 

 culture anywhere, but it is of paramount importance in California, where 

 abundant rains cannot be depended upon every season. Eich lands 

 abound by the millions of acres; the desideratum is to economize the 

 rains that fall to subserve all the purposes of profitable and successful 

 agriculture, without waste, and without the chances of failure. 



