California Agriculturist and Live Stock Journal. 



or by setting the boys at work in manu- 

 factories ami upon farms; and the cor- 

 ^ rect way of stating the hoodhim case is 

 not that there is too little work for the 

 boys, but too many boys for the work — 

 a clear case of "over-production" all 

 around. 



THE SQUIRREL LAW. 



We give space to the entire bill provid- 

 ing for the extermiuatiou of squirrels, as 

 it is a matter of interest to evt-ry farmer, 

 whether residing in the counties included 

 or not. The principle of the law is cor- 

 rect, and we hoi>c it will be strictly en- 

 forced : 



Section l.—Squin-els infesting lands in Stanislaus, 

 Santa Cruz, San Joatiuin. Mercetl. Fresno, San Be- 

 nito, Tulare, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Monterey and 

 Kern Counties, are hereby declared a imblic uuis- 

 ance. 



Sec. 2. —It shall be the duty of every person own- 

 ing, claiming or occnpylng land within three miles of 

 any cultivated field situate in these counties, to keep 

 the land so owned, claimed or occupied, clear of 

 siiuirrels; and any faihu"e in said duty shall be deemed 

 a sufficient cause for the putilic, thruui,'li its authur- 

 ized agents, to enter upon such land ;uid :il';ite the 

 nuisance by destroying the squirrels ther^jon as in 

 this Act provided; and all costs and expenses incur- 

 red, as in this Act provided, are hereby declared a 

 lien upon and agamst all the lands so owned, claimed 

 or occupied, upon which said expenses are incurred, 

 and such lien shall not be removed imtil payment or 

 sale has been made to satisfy such costs and exj^ense. 



Sec. 3.— The Board of Supervisors may, in their 

 discretion, create Squirrel Inspection Districts, com- 

 posed of one or more School Districts, and may, in 

 their discretion, appouit one suitable person in each 

 of the said districts to the office of Siiuirrel District 

 Inspector. Said Board shall be governed, as far as 

 practicable, in their judgment, for the best interests 

 of the district, in making such appointments by the 

 recommendation of the land owners, claimants and 

 occupants of land in said districts. The appointee 

 shall qualify with the usual oath of office and such 

 bond as the Board of Supervisors may require, and 

 hold office at the pleasure of the said Board of Su- 

 pervLsors The Board of Supervisors may till any 

 vacancy that may occur from any cause in the said 

 office, and the said inspector shall beheld responsible 

 to the owners or occupants for any unreasonable or 

 unnecessary damage that may occur in entering upon 

 lands for the purpose of destroying squiiTels. 



Sec. 4.— Each of said inspectors shall lie entitled to 

 compeosation at the rate of .^3 per day for actual ser- 

 vice, to be paid as hereinafter provided. 



Sec. 5, — Each squirrel district inspector provided 

 for by this Act shall, upon request and without charge 

 give needful instruction in the use of poison, or im- 

 plements for the destruction of squirrels, to land ovra- 

 ers, claimants and occupants of land in his district. 



Sec. 6.— On the first Monday of October in each 

 year, unless some other day is fixed by the order of 

 the Board of Supervisors, the laud owners, claimants 

 and occupants of land in each stiuirrel inspection dis- 

 trict provided for by this Act, shall commence de- 

 8tro>'ing the squiri-els on all their lands infested by 

 squirrels, and shall faithfully and continuously prose- 

 cute such work \mtil the 8([\iin'els are destroyed. 



Sec. 7.— \Vlien there has been a refusal or neglect 

 for two weeks by any land owner, claimant or occu- 

 pant of land in any squirrel in.spectii'n district pro- 

 vided for by this Act. to comply with the provisions 

 of the last preceding section of this Act. the inspector 

 of said district shall emi^loy men and means sutiicient 

 and proceed at once to destroy the squirrels on such 

 neglected lands, aud shall cause to he tiled a notice 

 of such intention in the Recorder's office of the coun- 

 ty, designating the name of the delinquent owner, if 

 known, and the land l>y name or other description 

 sufficient for its identification, shall serve notice m 

 writing upon the occupant of such land of having 

 filed such notice of intention, aud shall keep an exact 

 account of all exi)enses, including his own per diem, 

 incurred upon such neglected lands, as owned, 

 claimed or occupied, separately, and together with 

 the description of the land as above provided, file the 

 same with the CounCy Recorder, provided, when sep- 

 arate pieces or tracts of land shall belong to the same 

 owner, work shall be done on all such separate tracts 

 aud be mciude<l in the same filing, which shall be 

 done on the completion of the work; and pn,vided, 

 that the owner, claimant or occupant may present 

 himself to the insjiector at any time before the filing 

 of such accoimt and settle the same by paying all ac- 

 tual exjienses. The said inspector in such case will 

 omit the filing and pay himself and employees for the 

 work done on the land so settled for. Immediately 

 after the filing of the aforesaid accoiuits and descrip- 

 tion of land, the Couuty Recorder shall add ten per 

 cent, of such accoimts, and shall proceed immediately 

 to record the same in a book to be by him kept for 

 that piuiJose. The said record shall be deemed to 

 impart constructive notice of the afroesaid lien to all 

 persons, and shall be deemed to relate to the time of 

 filing the notice of intention as herein provided. 



Sec. 8. — On the first Monday of October in each 

 year the inspectors shall each employ all needfid help 

 and means, and proceed to destroy the squirrels upon 

 imoccuitied public lajuLs in his district, within thi-ee 

 miles (>r any cultivated field, and shall keep an exact 

 account >>i tb./ expense incmred upon such land, ami 

 file the same with the Coimty Recorder on or before 

 the next succeeding first day of April. 



Sec. 9.— The inspector shall, when he has reason to 

 believe there are squirrels m any part of his district, 

 inspect any tracts he has reason to believe are infest- 

 ed, and if R<iuirrels are found upon private lands 

 nwned. claimed or occupied, and no sufficient or ade- 

 'iiiat^' means, in his judgment, are being used to de- 

 >'i(>y the same, he shall employ all necessary help 

 nid means and proceed at once to destroy the squir- 

 I -Is thereon, in like manner as provided for destroy- 

 ing squirrels upon neglected lands in section 7 of this 



Act, and he shall keep and file exact accounts and 

 descriptions of the land, as provided for in said sec- 

 tion. If the Bqviirrela are upon public lands, unoccu 

 pied, he shall proceed in like manner, ami file hia ac- 

 comit as provided for in section 8 of this Act. 



Sec. 10. —Each and every pernon owning, cluiming 

 or occupying lands in any squirrel inspection <listrict. 

 who refuses or neglects to couqily with the require- 

 ments of tliis Act, is hereby held liable for, and de- 

 clared to be indebted to the county in which the said 

 8([uirrel inspection district is situated, ti* the amount 

 of the actual expenses incurred by the inspector in 

 destroying squirrels ui)on such laml. art fthown by the 

 account of said inspector tiled with the County Re- 

 corder, where payment may be made to such Record 

 er anytime wiMiin ninety days after the filing of such 

 accovnit, tn;^iili< r m itli the accmed costa. When 

 pajinent is iii.cl- t<i tb.- Recorder aforesaid, he shall 

 give his receipt fur tlie siime, and enter note of the 

 same in the margin of the record of the satiHfaction 

 of the lein, which shall release and discharge the lien 

 upon such lands. 



Sec. U.— When the account of any inspector has 

 been on file with the County Reconler 60 days unpaid 

 the said Reconler shall pass the account over to the 

 District Attorney, and the District Attorney shall 

 add 15 per cent to the account for attorney's fees, 

 and then he shall bring suit in the name of the peo- 

 ple of the State of Califurnia. in the proper Court, to 

 recoder the amount of th-' account and jtercenta^e 

 He may bring as many actimiH, either to foreclose the 

 lien or against the iierntin liable in the premises, as 

 maybe necessary to enforce the claim. Service of 

 summons in all suits to be made the same as in other 

 civil actions; provided, that when there is more than 

 one cause of action against the same party they shall 

 all be eiiibr;4ccd in one suit ; and, provided further, 

 tliat when it becomes necessiiry to make service by 

 publication, the Hoard of Supervisors shall notify tlie 

 owners or publishers of all newspapers in the county 

 of their intention to publish said summons, and 

 award the publication to the lowest bidder. 



Sec. 12.— The proceedings in sale and redemption 

 of property to satisfy liens under the provisions of 

 this Act shall be as prescribed in sections 3776. 3777. 

 3778, 377LI, 3730, 3781, 3782, 3783. 3784, 3785 and 3786 of 

 the Political Code, for the collection of delinquent 

 taxes, so far as the provisions of said sections are 

 applicable and not in conflict with the provisions of 

 this Act. 



Sec. 13.— The defendant, in answer to suit, may 

 plead, first, that he did not clanu, own or occupy the 

 laud on which the squirrels were destroyed. 



Sec. 14. — It is hereby required of any land owner, 

 claimant or occupant of land upon which the afore- 

 said inspector has conuuenced destroying squirrels, to 

 assist said inspector when it is convenient; and when 

 such owner, claimant or occupant is destroying S(|uir- 

 rels or rendering assistance, he shall be deemed to be 

 in the employ of said inspector; and it is further re- 

 • luired of such land owner, claimant or occupant, 

 when he knows of live squirrels upon his lands so 

 owned, claimed or occupied prior to aforesaid first 

 day of April, to notify the said inspector of euch fact. 



Sec. 15.— Provides that the Hoard of Super^isors.at 

 the time of levying other comity taxes, shall levy a 

 tax sufficient for the requirements of this Act ; pro- 

 vided, that such tax wliich sliiill not exceed twenty 

 cents on each one huntlred dollars' worth of taxable 

 property in the county: which tax shall be assessed 

 and eollected as other county taxes, and paid ijito 

 the county treasury, to the credit of the Squirrel 

 Nuisance Abatement Fund, whichis herein provided. 



Sec, 16.— The County Recorder and District Attor- 

 ney shall each pay over all the money received by 

 either of them, in accordance witii the provisions of 

 this Act, to the County Treasurer, to the credit of 

 the SquiiTcl Nuisance Abatement Fund, which is 

 herein provided. 



Sec. 17.— All employees of the inspector provided 

 for by this Act shall be entitled to compensation, 

 which shall not exceed two dollara per day for actual 

 service; and when not paid by the inspector shall lie 

 paid as hereinatter provided. 



Sec. 18 —All the expenses incurred in cai-rying on 

 the provisions of this Act, when not settled for by 

 the land owners, claimants, or occupants, shall be 

 paid from the Squirrel Niusance Abatement Fund 

 provided fur by this Act. Warrants drawing 7 per 

 cent, per annimi interest shall be issued by order of 

 the Board of Super\'isors on all ajiproved claims 

 thereon, payable by the treasurer from the said fund. 



Sec. 19.— Each s(|uirrel district inspector shall ren- 

 der a detailed account, under o.ath, to the Board of 

 Supervisors for all the money he receives of land own- 

 ers, claimants and occuqants, by and on accomit of 

 provisions of this Act; and he shall present all claims 

 for himself and employees, verified, to the Board of 

 Supervisoi-s. 



Sec. 20. —Tlie owner of any land, or any party claim- 

 ing an interest or lien thereon, in the counties of San 

 Joaquin, StanislaiLs, Santa Cruz, Merced, Fresno, 

 San Benito, Tulare. S.tji Mateo, Santa Clara, Monte- 

 rey, and Kern, shall have the right to enter upon the 

 same for the pui'pose of destroying squirrels, in case 

 the les.<;ee or other occupant shall neglect to destroy 

 them; and parties so entering shall be responsible for 

 any unreasonable or umiecessiiry damages to the 

 premises or crops from such enti-j-; and no entry on 

 lands for the real or nominal pm-pose of destroying 

 squirrels thereon shall be deemed or held to estab- 

 lish or give color of claim to the property, except as 

 herein provided, nor is any authority herein given of 

 entry upon lant,ls for other pnrjwses than insi>ection 

 and de.'^truction of squirrels, as in this Act provided. 



Sec. 21. "All Acts or partr of Acts in conflict with 

 this Act are hereby repealed. 



Sec. 22.— This Act shall take effect immediately. 



A very fat animal is never fit for suc- 

 cessful breeding, and on well known 

 physiological principles, a very fat ram, 

 as a general thing, does not get as good 

 lambs as a ram iu just good condition, 

 who has had ample exercise and enough 

 feed — that is, and bounding with health 

 and elasticity. 



THE CAME LAW. 



When FiHli !*Iny be Takt'ii uiifl Game 

 Killefl UiKler Pri^Heiit Regulations. 



As the game season approaches, much 

 interest is felt by sportsman to learn the 

 changes in the laws with regard to killing 

 game that were effected by the last Leg- 

 islature. The new sporting journal, the 

 I'rxcijlc Life, gives the following synopsis 

 of the laws on this subject as they now 

 stand, which will no doubt be found to 

 be correct: 



The close fleasoii for salmon coimnenced Aiigujit 

 iBt. aiKl extendH to November lat. Under tlie law 

 ]|{U>UL-<1 at the last besBion of the Legiblature it is iiiuilu 

 a niisileineanor to catcli, transport or iiave in pohse.s 

 sion fresli fiahiion during this period. The penalty 

 for a violation of the law ia from $30 to .^00, and thiji 

 is divided between the informer, the prosecuting at- 

 trjrney and the Kchool fund of the couuty. 



Kvery person who. between the 1st day of January 

 and the 1st day of Sei>tember of each year, takes, 

 kills or destroys any elk. deer, mountain sheep, or 

 antelope, is gudty of a misdemeanor; and every per- 

 son who sliall take, kill or destroy any of the animals 

 herein mentioned, at any time, (ndess the carciisa of 

 Kuch animal is u.sed or i)reserved by the person slay- 

 ing it. or ia sold for food, is guilty of a niisdeniean<»r. 

 Any person catcliing or having in his possession, or 

 offermg for sale, shad, at any time prior to the tirst 

 Monday of December. 1877, is guilty of a misdemean- 

 or The following countiee aro excepted from the 

 provisioiLS of this section : Del Norte, Humboldt, 

 Shasta and Mendocino. 



Section 626 of the I'enal Code wa.s amended hist 

 winter to read as follows ; Every person who. in the 

 counties of San Bernardino or Loa Angeles, between 

 the first day of April of any year and the first day of 

 August of the same yeiir, or who hi any other of the 

 counties of tills State, e-xcepting the counties of La.s- 

 sen' Pluniaa, and Sierra, between the 15th day of 

 .March and tiio loth day of Septeuilf^r iu each year, 

 takes, kills or clestroys Huail, partridge, or gniuse. 

 mallard, wood, teal, spoonbill, or any kiud of broad- 

 bill duciis. is guilty of a misdemeanor. 



Sec. 631.— Kvery peraoii who. between the 15th day 

 of October in each year and the 1st day of April in 

 the following year, takes or catches any trout is guilty 

 of a misdemeanor. 



Sec. 632.— Kvery person who, in the counties of ,\1- 

 pine. .Santa ("lani, Santa Cruz, Lake. .San -Mateo, 

 Monterey, .Sonoma, Tuolumne, .\lameda. Marin. Ne- 

 va<la. Placer, ^'lulnai^. .Sierra, Sun Luis Obiapo. So- 

 huio. Mariposa, .Mendocino, or Nap:l. at any time, 

 takes or catches any trout except with hook and line 

 is guilty of a misdemeanor. 



Sec. 633.— Every person who takes, catches or kills 

 auy trout by the use of nets, weirs, baaketa, or tnitis, 

 is guilty of a misdemeanor. 



The penalty for the violation of the law is as fol- 

 lows: 



Except in cases where a different punishment is 

 prescribed by the Code, every offence declared to lie 

 a misdemeanor is punisliable by imprisonment hi a 

 county jail not exceeding six months, or by a fine not 

 exceeding sdOO, or by both. 



The Board of Supervisors of .Santa Cruz county, at 

 their meeting on the hrst Monday in August, changed 

 the deer law so that hunters may kill deer from the 

 iDth of August to the 1st of January, instead of (aa 

 heretofore) from the Ist of September to the lat of 

 January. 



Without an agricultural paper, the 

 farmer is confined chiefly to his own 

 limited experience. He cannot profit by 

 the experience of the world at large, for 

 he knows not what is going ou iu his 

 own profession, even. 



A good agricultural paper may be com- 

 pared to a sea that gathers waters from a 

 thousand tributaries. So an agricultural 

 paper gathers knowledge, experience, 

 wisdom, from hundreds of intelligent, 

 practical correspondents, aud from other 

 agricultural papers, and thus furnishes 

 an exhaustless store of information to 

 the farmer. Hence, every farmer who 

 follows farming for a livelihood, ought 

 to take an agricultural paper, that he 

 may avail himself of the valued experi- 

 ence it contains of others iu his own 

 profession. 



The centennial anniversary of our 

 national birth aud that of the first settle- 

 ment made on the Bay of San Francisco 

 occur in conjunction. On the 9th day 

 of October, 1770, was founded the Jliss- 

 ion of San Francisco de los Dolores, the 

 determining point of our present young 

 and prosperous city. To the resident of 

 San Francisco, therefore, this pleasant 

 coincidence imparts to this Centennial 

 year and great Paschal Day an addition- 

 al interest, since but for the humble 

 event above alluded to the emporium of 

 the Pacific coast might have occupied 

 another site on our glorious bay than the 

 little cove of Yerba Buena. 



Platform of the Independent 

 Party. 



As political platforms are popular 

 reading just now, and we have not seen 

 the Independent one in auy paper ou 

 this Coast, we insert this as information 

 on an important subject : 



The Independent Party is called into 

 existence by the necessities of the people 

 whose industries are prostrated, whose 

 labor is deprived of its just reward as 

 the result of the serious mismanagement 

 of the national finances, which errors 

 both the Republican aud Democratic 

 parties neglect to correct. And iu view 

 of the failure of these parties to furnish 

 relief to the depressed industries of the 

 country, thereby disappointing the just 

 hopes and expectations of a suft'ering 

 people, we declare our principles aud in- 

 vite all independent and patriotic men 

 to join our ranks in this movement for 

 financial reform aud industrial emanci- 

 pation. 



First — We demand the immediate and 

 unconditional repeal of the specie re- 

 sumption act of .Tanuar)' 14, 1875, and 

 the rescue of our industries from the 

 ruin andMisaster resulting from its en- 

 forcement, and we call upon all patriotic 

 men to organize in every Congressional 

 district of the country, with the view of 

 electing representatives to Congress who 

 will carry out the wishes of the jpeople 

 in this regard, and stop the present sni- 

 cidiU and destructive policy of contrac- 

 tion. 



Second — We believe that the United 

 States note issued directly by the Gov- 

 ernment and convertible on demand into 

 United States obligations, bearing an 

 equitable rate of interest, not exceeding 

 one cent a day on each one huudred dol- 

 lars, and interchangeable ■nith United 

 States notes at par will afford the best 

 circulating medium ever devised; such 

 United States notes should be a full legal 

 tender for all purposes, except for the 

 payment of such obligations as are by 

 existing contracts expressly made paya- 

 ble in coin. Xnd we hold that it is the 

 duty of the Government to jjrovide such 

 a circulating medium, aud insist, in the 

 language of Thomas .Jefferson, "that 

 bank paper must be suppressed and the 

 circulation restored to the nation, to 

 whom it belongs." 



Third — It is the paramount duty of the 

 Government in all its legislation to keep 

 in view the full development of all legit- 

 imate business, agricultural, mining, 

 manufacturing and commei-eial. 



Fourth — We most earnestly protest 

 against any further issue of gold bonds, 

 for sale in foreign markets, by which we 

 would be made for a long period, hew- 

 ers of wood and drawers of water to for- 

 eign nations, especiallj" as the American 

 people would gladly and promptly take 

 at par all the bonds the Government 

 may need to sell, provided they are made 

 payable at the option of the liolder and 

 bearing interest at three and sixty-five 

 one-hundredths per cent, per annum, or 

 a lower rate. 



Fifth — AVe further protest against the 

 sale of Government bonds for the pur- 

 pose of purchasing silver to be used as a 

 substitute for our more convenient and 

 less fluctuating fractional currency, 

 which, although well calculated to en- 

 rich the owners of silver mines, yet in 

 operation will still further oppress iu 

 taxation an already over-burdened peo- 

 ple. 



The large amount of American cheese 

 of superior quality now sold throughout 

 Great Britain is causing considerable 

 uneasiness in the minds of English man- 

 ufacturers. 



