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effect, and we are no longer looked upon as a distant land where the wan- 

 derer went to seek pastures anew, but are known in all lands and climes 

 as the land of prosperity and plenty. 



The results are made manifest in the large increase of small homes and 

 the cutting up of large tracts of land for this purpose. It is shown by the 

 increased inquiries by new-comers for suitable locations, and by increased 

 shipment of products, that were heretofore little known outside of our own 

 border. 



At our annual exhibitions new faces are seen, and the exhilarating effect 

 upon the stranger is noticeable at once; as in the days of old, the gold 

 fever was contagious, so now the land fever, the fruit fever, and the home 

 fever have been spread instead, until the procession of new-comers to this 

 State has taxed the facilities of the transportation companies far in excess 

 of their ordinary capacity to accommodate the travelers. 



Our aim each year is to so arrange the exhibition that it shall illustrate 

 to the best advantage the various productive resources of the entire State; 

 our constant study is to most thoroughly inform all by actual observation 

 of the great agricultural capabilities of our soil, the yield of our shops, 

 mines, mills, and forges, to the end that the hesitating settler will be over- 

 come by the facts shown, cast aside all prejudices, and become one of us. 



Our extensive pavilion was heretofore looked upon as one out of all 

 proportion, and of greater capacity than was needed, which premoni- 

 tion was predicated upon experience of years past, when the few producers 

 of the State were only induced to exhibit their products by the personal 

 solicitation of the workers that managed the institution. The responses 

 given to these appeals were generally that the growers could sell all their 

 products at their doors, and the vast tracts of land uncultivated were 

 needed for grazing. But, the almost superhuman efforts of the energetic 

 citizens having the management of these exhibitions in hand, has resulted 

 as was best shown by the display made in this great building during the 

 Fair of 1888, when we were overcrowded for space; and had the coun- 

 ties that engaged space not cut down their exhibits, nothing but the 

 products of the soil would have covered the one hundred and twenty-four 

 thousand square feet of floor space. As it was, the display of agricultural, 

 horticultural, viticultural, and mechanical products were never before 

 equaled in this or any other State. 



Many of our agricultural implements are unknown outside of this 

 State. Our combined harvesters, that cut, thrash, and sack at one opera- 

 tion the products of our vast grain fields, thereby enabling the farmer to 

 market his yield of grain, if needs be, you might say the day of ripening, 

 illustrates the spirit that predominates in our wide awake California 

 farmer. 



THE PROPOSED FOREIGN EXHIBIT. 



As has been shown what our efforts are at home in making exhibitions 

 of products a successful stimulant to the growth of our State, the same 

 principle, if properly carried out in foreign lands, would, in our opinion, 

 have the same effect. As the producer was encouraged to produce, he 

 must now produce to encourage and build up markets for the large in- 

 crease of products. The more products, the more market capacity 

 needed; the more market capacity, the more products. Therefore we 

 believe in every stimulation of a practical nature that will afford increased 

 opportunities to market supplies. We have always advocated object les- 

 sons that fully illustrate, by the actual exhibition of products, as more 



