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dreaded, provided sufficient watchfulness is maintained to detect their 

 first appearance. The plants encounter no other serious enemy while 

 in the beds. The total cost of making and tending seed beds (exclusive 

 of cost of covers, but inclusive of that of seed,) may be about two dol- 

 lars and twentj^-fivc cents for each acre to be planted. One proposition 

 ought never to be lost sight of: that too much care cannot be expended 

 on the preparation and maintenance of your beds, and whatever money 

 cost is judiciously laid in this direction is a true economy. Healthy 

 plants and a plenty of them are the basis on which the whole enterprise 

 rests. 



TOBACCO YIELD IN CALIFORNIA IN EIGHTEEN HUNDEED 



AND SEVENTY-FOUK. 



From the best obtainable information we are enabled to present the 

 following statement of the yield of the tobacco crop in eighteen hun- 

 dred and seventy-four: Alameda County, one hundred thousand pounds; 

 Lake, sixty thousand pounds; Los Angeles, one hundred thousand 

 pounds; Santa Barbara, seventy thousand pounds; Santa Clara (in- 

 cludes San Benito^, eight hundred thousand pounds; Santa Cruz, seventy 

 thousand pounds; San Mateo, forty thousand pounds. Total, one mil- 

 lion two hundred and forty thousand pounds. 



