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per acre, while it compares favourably with the yield per 

 acre in other States of the Union (being about eleven 

 bushels per acre), is less than one-third of what is obtained 

 in England, and one-fourth of what is harvested per acre 

 in Denmark. This is significant. American farmers do 

 not, as a rule, prepare the ground properly; they use 

 little guano, and summer-fallowing is the exception rather 

 than the rule. Those who have given this important 

 subject the attention it deserves, are of opinion that im- 

 proved methods will enhance enormously the average 

 yield of wheat per acre throughout the United States. 



Wine. 



1888. 1899. 



Wine in gallons . . . 7,305,000 . . 13,150,000 



Miscellaneous. 

 1899 Wool Crop 29,500,000 lbs. 



" ■ Hops 8,325,000 " 



1898 Butter 23,691,321 " (No returns for '99.) 



Cheese 5,148,372 " 



I regret that I am unable to obtain reliable figures in 

 regard to other industries : cattle, hogs, horses, the bean 

 crop, the olive crop, the amount of honey, etc. ; but 

 the returns from the lumber industry obtained for the 

 first time are not without interest. The commercial 

 woods of California are redwood, sugar pine, yellow pine, 

 spruce, cedar, and fir. The returns show the output for 

 1898 in thousand feet. 



Redwood. Sugar Pine. Yellow Pine. Spruce. Cedar. Fir. 

 276,451 42,176 180,454 22,688 2,015 24,210 



Total Redwood 276,451,596 



Total all others 327,565,171 



Total all kinds . 604,016,767 



