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TRANSACTIONS OF THE 



Fruits. 



Annual Cost. 



Dried apples 



Eaisiiis '. 



Other kinds 



Total fruits that we can and should produce ourselves 



8109,415 

 135,917 



1,500,000 



$1,745,332 



In the preceding tables we have endeavored to collect and group 

 together some of the more important products of the farm, which are to 

 a great extent neglected by our fiarmers, but which they can produce 

 with just as much ease and certainty as they can produce wheat and 

 barley. 



We have taken both the quantities and prices from the annual tables 

 compiled by the Mercantile Gazette and Prices Current, of San Francisco, 

 and the}' may be relied upon as correct. The prices are in all cases 

 reckoned in gold and silver. Now, to present the whole matter in one 

 view, we- will submit the following 



RECAPITULATION. 



We would only remark that Avhen the farmers of California supply 

 the demand for the above articles in, our State, and annually put the 

 above enormous sum of money in their own pockets, instead of allowing 

 it to be exported to pay those of other States and countries who do sup- 

 ply that demand, then, and not till then, should they complain for want 

 of a constant and remunerative market, or that farming is not or cannot 

 be made a paying business in California. It is true that some of the 

 importations specified go through our State to supply the demands of 

 the people of Nevada; but this fact forms no excuse to ■ our farmers. 



