AND WHERE TO FIND ONE. 343 



from the California Farmer, is ail accurate account 

 of the product of the orchard of Mr. G. C. Briggs, 

 of Marysville : 



12,223,020 $124,993&quot; 



Estimating it in bushels, it amounts to more than 

 twenty thousand bushels. California well may 

 claim the palm for her horticultural products, and 

 though all her fruits may not equal those of our 

 more northern clime, they certainly surpass them in 

 abundance and size. 



In our &quot;Western States there are farmers cultivat 

 ing immense tracts of land with evident profit. 

 There are farms of 10,000 acres, yielding 90,000 

 bushels of corn alone, with thousands of bushels of 

 wheat, besides fattening great droves of hogs and cat 

 tle. But these facts are too well known to make a 

 recapitulation necessary. These must be profitable 

 undertakings, or their owners would abandon them. 



