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Wool, 5,184,826 pounds. Largest counties: Santa Barbara, 587,500 pounds; Los An- 
geles, 405,000 pounds. 
Apple trees, 1,694,986. 
Pear trees, 482,477. 
Peach trees, 1,088,038. 
Plum trees, 234,280. 
Almond trees, 28,640. 
Walnut trees, (English, ) 17,271. 
Olive trees, 12 881. 
Lemon trees, 3,029. Largest county, Los Angeles, 1,842 trees. 
Orange trees, 11,284. Largest county, Los Angeles, 8,799 trees. 
Grape vines planted, 19,710,814. Largest counties: Los Angeles, 3,000,000 vines ; So 
noma; 2,830,195 vines ; Sauta Clara, 2,00 000 vines. 
Wine, 1,791,633 gallons. Largest counties: Los Angeles, 600,000 gallons; El Dorado, 
235,680 gallons; Sonoma, 199,030 gallons. 
Brandy, 127,140 gallons. Largest counties: Los Angeles, 79,000 gallons; Sonoma, 
6,835 gallons; Sacramento, 5,714 gallons. 
General statistics —Horses, 109,907. Largest counties; Los Angeles, 10,901; Sacra- 
mento, 8,873; San Joaquin, 8,836. 
Mules, 21,310. Largest counties: Shasta, 1,942; Yolo, 1,976; Sacramento, 1,828. 
, Cattle, 436,363, as follows: Cows, 150,198; calves, 78,305; beef cattle, 188,352; oxen, 
4,150. 
Sheep, 1,346,749." Largest counties: Los Angeles, 135,000; Santa Barbara, 104,358 ; 
Colusa, 101,228. 
Cashmere and Angora goats, 2,753. 
Hogs, 332,049. 
Hives bees, 27,204. 
Grist mills, steam power, 74, with 187 run stone; water power, 65 mills, with 112 run 
stone. Flour made, 1,655,327 barrels. 
Saw mills, steam, 180; water, 160; sawing 188,938,643 feet lumber. 
Woollen mills, 2, using 3,500,000 pounds wool. 
Cotton mills, 2, using 110,000 pounds cotton. 
Railroads, —, with 3622 miles rails laid. 
Coal mines, 63,350 tons; all in Contra Costa county. f 
Total assessed value of property in the State for 1866, $197,789,107, as follows: Real 
estate, $93,379,737 ; improvements, $15,306,817; personal property, $88,239,582. 
‘ Lape population, (estimated, ) 470,597; registered votes, 119,481; poll tax collected, 
288, 494. 
The report also gives the following figures relative to 1867, the present year: Land culti- 
vated, 1,793,286 acres; of which 846,377 acres were in wheat, and 354,873 acres in barley. 
The largest wheat counties were: Solano, 160,000 acres; Santa Clara, 150,000; and San 
Joaquin, 91,790 acres. The largest barley counties were: Santa Clara, 40,000 acres; San 
Joaquin, 30,616 acres; and Sacramento, 30,000 acres. It will be seen from the foregoing 
that only 18,959 acres of additional land has been cultivated in 1867. The total of wheat 
and barley in 1866 were 1,163,366 acres, while in the present year there were 1,201,250 
acres, showing an increase of 37,884 acres cultivated in those grains. The greatest disparity 
between the two years is in the different apportionment, viz: in 1866 there were 690,745 
acres wheat, while in 1867 there were 846,377 or 155,632 acres, or over one-fifth more land. 
In barley, in 1866, there were 472,621, and in the present year 354,873 acres ; a decrease of 
117,748 acres, or fully one-fourth less. 
No statistical information of the crops of 1867 (the present year) have as yet been received 
by the surveyor general from county assessors, so that no estimates made can be safely 
relied on. As the crop of wheat in 1867 was harvested from fully one-fifth more land, it is 
probable that as much was produced as in the preceding year, although the grain was some- 
what less in weight per bushel than in other harvests. The demand for wheat has been 
great, at very remunerative prices, and supplies have been brought forward more freely than 
in previous years. The total receipts of the harvest of 1867, at this port, from July 1 to De- 
cember 23, amount to 4,265,008 sacks, or 7,108,346 bushels, of which 3,157,083 sacks, or 
5,261,805 bushels, have been exported up to December 25, 1867. Large as our exports of 
wheat have been, it is highly probable that they will be much increased next year. Our 
farmers have learned by experience that summer fallowing and dry ploughing insure good 
crops, even in dry seasons, and the practice has been largely indulged in this year. The 
high price of wheat has also stimulated capitalists to engage in its culture, and many thou- 
sands of acres of land are being broken up for the first time, and will be put in that grain. 
In fact the desire to plant wheat seems to have becomea mania, and land has been rented at 
higher a than was ever known before. What the aggregate of new land planted in 
wheat will be I have no means of knowing further than the practice is general-in all the val- 
ley counties in the State. In one county, (Contra Costa,) I am credibly informed that two 
tracts of land, of 5,000 acres each, have been rented, and will be sown in grain for the first 
