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Best hearth-rug; premium, five dollars; awarded to Mrs. J. F. McDer- 

 mon, Sacramento. 



In making this award, the committee found it difficult to decide be- 

 tween the work of the different exhibitors, and recommend that Miss A. 

 Hubbard, of Sierra Valley, California, be given a special premium for a 

 hearth rug, beautiful in design and very finely made; also, that Mrs. J. 

 F. Hill be given a special premium, for a meritorious display of rag- 

 rugs — five in number — as well made almost as is possible, and showing 

 fine taste in their maker. 



Best exhibition of silk .goods by one factory; premium twenty-five 

 dollars; awarded to Joseph Green, Oakland, California. 



This display of silk goods comprises one hundred and eleven pieces 

 of ribbon, of every shade and tint, and of very superior workmanship 

 and finish. Your committee desire to respectfully suggest, in view of 

 the magnitude and importance of the silk interest, prospectively, in Cal- 

 ifornia, that the premium in this instance is a small one, and could, with 

 propriety, be made larger and more encouraging to the present exhibit- 

 ors as well as to future ones. Mr. Green brought to this State forty 

 years experience in the manufacture of silk and other ribbons, and this 

 exhibition of lute-string, gros-grain, double shot gros-grain, and other 

 kinds, is not only attractive and creditable, but is also suggestive of 

 what may be produced hereafter. The factory at Oakland has now 

 been in operation nineteen months, and certainly this result of its opera- 

 tions may well attract the critical attention of the State Agricultural 

 Society. The looms, shuttles, and the machinery for winding, wrap- 

 ing, fitting, and blocking are now in constant operation, and your com- 

 mittee report the work to be well done, beautiful in appearance, enduring 

 in quality, tasteful and valuable, and significant of the probability that 

 goods of this description can be as readily and as successfully made by 

 the bay of San Francisco, on the banks of the Sacramento, as in the 

 "Lyons Looms," and it is recommended a silver medal be awarded to 

 Mr. Green. 



J. T. GRIFFITTS, 

 L. E. CRANE, 

 MRS. H. ADAMS, 

 MRS. H. H. PIERSON. 



CALIFORNIA SARDINES. 



To the honorable State Board of Agriculture: 



Gentlemen: The undersigned members of a committee appointed to 

 examine and pass upon the merits of the California sardines, as cured 

 and packed in oil by the California Sardine Company of San Francisco, 

 would respectfully report: 



In treating of this new interest, too great importance can hardly be 

 attached. The generally accepted idea that the genuine sardine can be 

 found but in the waters of the Mediterranean has been exploded, and our 

 bays, harbors, and inlets from the Pacific Ocean swarm with sardines, 

 which can be had almost for the asking. Italian fishermen pursuing 



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