CONTENTS. 



Annual Report of the Board of Directors for 1870 45 



Beet Sugar 47 



California Wines and Grapes 49 



Cotton 53 



Dairy Farming 49 



Fruit Culture 50 



Fruits in the Mountains 51 



Forest Culture 54 



Finances of the Society 57 



Financial Report of the State Agricultural Society for 1870 58 



General Condition of the State 55 



Improvements in Stock 55 



Permanent Improvements 56 



Purchase of Real Estate 56 



Ramie 54 



Silk Culture 46 



Sheep Husbandry 52 



The Fair for 1871 57 



Wool 52 



Annual Address, delivered by Hon. A. A. Sargent, before the State Agricultural 



Society, in 1870 81 



Address delivered by Ezra S. Carr, Professor of Agriculture, before the State Agricul- 

 tural Society, in 1870 93 



Annual Address, delivered by T. G. Phelps, before the State Agricultural Society, 



in 1871 206 



Annual Meeting of the State Agricultural Society for 1872 408 



Agricultural Colleges in the United States, by Professor Ezra S. Carr 319 



Biennial Report of the State Board of Agriculture for the years 1870 and 1871 3 



Agricultural Expansion and Improvements 5 



Agricultural Products of 1871 13 



Agricultural and Mechanic Arts College 22 



Correspondence 12 



Diversity of Products 6 



Expense of Fences ; 20 



Fruits 7 



Forest Culture 21 



