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California Agriculturist and Live Stock Journal. 



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PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE 



CAL. AGKICULTUEIST PUB. CO. 



9. HARRIS HERRING. Editor. 



OFFICE— No. 338 First Street, with Cottle ts Wright's Job 

 Printing OfBco. 



RATES OF ADVERTISING: 



Per one Column S;i2 00 Ptr Month 



" half Column 6 00 " •* 



•' tourth Column 3 00 " " 



" eit^'hth Column 2 00 " " 



" Bixteenth Column..... .. 1 00 " •' 



tt^ We are determined to adhere to our resolu- 

 tion to admi^ none but worthy business advertis- 

 ing in our columns, and to keep clear of patent 

 medicine, liquor, and other advertisements of 

 doubtful influence. 



The large circulation, the desirable class of 

 readers, and the neat and convenient form, rend- 

 ers this Journal a choice medium for reaching 

 the attention of the masses. 



$1.50 Per Ai\i\un\. 



San Jose Office— 338 First Street 

 San Francisco Business Office (tempora- 

 rily) — 406 Market Street. 



P. 0. Box in San Francisco, 805. 



Notice to Eastern Advertisers and 

 Advertising Agencies. 



ttSf Hereafter no proposition for advertifiinK 

 in this journal will be entertained without pay 

 In advance. Our published rates are the Btaud- 

 arc for all. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



An Interest in the Califoknia Agei- 

 CDLrijKiST for sale. Aii))ly to or address 

 Joseph Pekkins, 406 Market Street, San 

 Frantisco. 



See our December and January num- 

 bers for instruction in tree planting, etc. 



Beatrice Cenci. — To accommodate 

 many new .subscribers we have made ar- 

 rangements with the Cal. Art Pnb. Co. to con- 

 tinue the premium cerliticate No. 3 to April 

 J St, 187r. 



Selfish Interests control the wisdom 



anil ri'ason <:t most persons— else smart men 

 are generally fools. The San Francisco 

 Cliamber of Commerce claims to represent 

 the intelligence of the business men of the 

 Pacific Coast. At a single meeting they pass 

 ed the two following resolutioiis. The lirat 

 we think a sensible one, but the last in the 

 interest of Shylocks, is totally at variance 

 witli it, and both together mean just nothing 

 at all: 



Resolved. That the introduction of legal tender 

 notes a.1 a mufonn currency Is especiaUy recom- 

 muiided for conBidenitlon, 



h.S."?!'''"',''''"'' '" "■" "Pinion "f this Chamher the 

 c mK'„ni , """inerce and the prosperity of the 

 a» I^JL i ""T'='l''>' n"»i"taiuing gold c.in 



First blowing hot and then blowing c )ld, 

 They pKiy for legal lenders, but hug IheGod 

 of Ooldl 



While there has been less than four 

 inches of rain, up to February 1st, for the 

 season, in .'•'an Jose, there lias been ten inches 

 in the hills ten miles distant. The same rule 

 will apply to other districts. But the rain-fall 

 in San Jose is above the average in the grain 

 growing districts of the State. Fine, warm 

 weather, heavy dews at night, and no drying, 

 cold winds, are all favorable to rapid growth 

 of grain and hay crops. These conditions 

 may continue, and occasional rains insure 

 fair hay and light grain crops. But the 

 chances are, that there will be but little grain 

 and light hay crops. It is always wise to 

 hope and work for the best but be prepared 

 for the worst in doubtful seasons like the 

 present. 



Hops. — -^ correspondent in Elhi, 

 Washington Territory, info -ms us that sec- 

 tion i i a large farming district, and that two- 

 thirds of the farmers are raising hops. The 

 great hop growing districts East are in West- 

 ern New York and Wisconsin. The prices 

 for the last year have averaged 27 eta per lb. 

 In 1875, 60,000 bales of 200 lbs. each vpere ex- 

 ported. The crop of 1876 will exceed that 

 crop, and pay growers S250 t^' S300 per acre. 

 Owing to the pi'evalence of disease in Europe 

 and the Eastern States, hop growing is a pre- 

 carious business, one year with another. But 

 on this coast, and especially in Washington 

 Territory, the yield is very large, the vires 

 healthy, and hops very superior 



As there is more speculation and fluc- 

 tuation in hops than in any other product, 

 there is more need of producers to form asso- 

 ciations, and to use every means to keep 

 posted, so as to control prices, instead of be- 

 ing controlled as heretofore. The importance 

 of this matter is very apparent, and should 

 be strongly urged upon producers. The pro- 

 duction of hops in the United States, accord- 

 ing to the census reports of 1870, was nearly 

 Iwenty-tive million pounds, the State of New 

 York producing about seventy per cent, of the 

 whole, Wisconsin nineteen per cent., Michi- 

 gan three per cent., California two and one- 

 half per cent., Vermont two per cent., Min- 

 nesota and Maine one per cent each, all oth- 

 er States about one and one-half per cent. 



With a batch of new <!ubscribers from 

 Petaluma comeb a cheering letter, which reads 

 thus : 



*"Wc have had a fine rain ; a few more like 

 it will give us good crttps this season. Our 

 Grange is making some good moves on the 

 currency question, — it ought to have been dis- 

 cussed by all the Granges years ago. 



Fheeman Parker. 



That's just what we thiuk. — Ed. AcR.cnL- 



TCRIST. '■ "■ '" 



ANSWERS TO QUERIES. 



ASPAKAGL'S ROIlT.S. 



Ed. Aghicllturist: Our Redwood friend. 

 M. E O. W.,can get all the Asparagus roots, 7 

 years old, desired, by conferring with the 

 Writer. It is indeed a luxury on the table, 

 and I discover she knows how it sliould be 

 prepared, a secret I have taught many, aitd 

 one that is still unknown in restaurants. It 

 would surely become moie extensively culti- 

 vated in farm gardens, if all the farmers vvilii 

 their wives and grown up sons and d.tuglilers 

 were to happen around and dine with our 

 friend some day \\ hen she had .asparagu.s for 

 dinner served up in tlie way she knows so 

 well. 



POI.Arll CHINA SI' INK. 



Mr. J. Raihget can learn alt he desires, and 

 I lliink, procure the de^ired slock of hogs by 

 ciuiferriug with Messrs. Culver & Merrill, 

 San Gregories, San Mateo county, as they im- 



ported what was reputed thoroughbreds, di- 

 rect froiu Ohio Am sure they are aa good as 

 any, tliongh I don't believe that a thorough- 

 bred exitts in any kind of stock. 



Wm. S. Dow ing. 

 Half Moon Bay, San Mateo county. 



The Pacific Specimen, by Marder, 



Luse &. Co., type loiiiiders. San Francisco, is 

 a beautiful sheet, and ably edited by au en- 

 terprising firm. 



Some People seem to think that it 

 costs nothing to run a paper — and they 

 pay uji accordingly. We have paid out 

 for the one item of postage alone over 

 $60.00 since January 1st, all within one 

 month. 



Rainfall. 



Following is the rainfall for this sec- 

 tion to the end of January for the pres- 

 ent season, as kept by Mr. Ethell, of 

 San Jose Bank Building: 



Table for Orchard Planters and 

 Gardeners. 



43,560 square feet make an acre. 

 2ao feet by about 208 feet make one acre. 

 '27 trees to the acre, 40 feet apart. 



48 30 " 



108 " " " 20 

 135 " '* " 18 

 200 " " " 15 



358 11 



432 " ** " 10 



534 *• 1." r.-i.'V ■■ 9:-r^i«» : 

 676 " . ffut ■.Vr...-8,,l» V- ■' 

 882 " " "7 " 



1.2-jO " " •• 6 



1.764 " '• " 5 " 



4.808 " " •" -3 " 



10,800 " " '* 2 



43.560 " " " 1 " 



To find the number of plants for an acre at a 

 given distance, divide the number of square 

 ftet in au acre by the number of square leet 

 given to each plant. 



To find the circumference, multiply the diam- 

 eter by 3.1416. 



To fiud the diameter, multiply the circumfer- 

 ence by .3183. 

 4 ioos is a hand for measuring horses. 

 6 feet is a fathom. 

 3 geographical miles is a league. 



Scientific. — Herbert Speucer sends 

 the following conundrum to the readers 

 of the California Ageicttltctbist: 



Can the oscilations of a molecule he 

 presented in consciousness side by side 

 with a nervous shock, and the two he 

 recot^nized as one? 



The only clue the author ^ives is, that 

 feeling and nervous action are two faces 

 of the same outological something. 



A prize will be given for the correct 

 answer. 



I^^ Please notice the advertisement of 

 the sale of the entire Avenne herd ()f 

 Short-horns. This is the most valuable 

 herd in California, or on the Pacific 

 Coast. They were brou{.;ht here by ex- 

 perienced brci'ders, not as a speculation, 

 but as a permanent enterprise. Two of 

 the partners have since died, and Mr. 

 Jom;s and administrators, have to sell to 

 chose up aflTairs. No such opportunity 

 has ever before otfered to secure the 

 finest i)ure bred stock in America. 



NEW PUBLICATIONS. 



" Islimael, or In the Di-ptbe," is the name 

 of Mrs. Emma D. E. N. Scutbwortli's best 

 work, just published in book form, for the 

 first time, by T. B. Peterson &. Brcthere, 

 Phil delphia. Pa. It is having an immense 

 sale. It is one of the most fascinating sto- 

 ries. The life of " Ishniael Worth " as here 

 portrayed, is a ^.-niding star to the youth of 

 every land, to bIiow them that there is no 

 depth ot human misery from which ihey may 

 not, by virtue, energy and perseverance, rise 

 to earthly honors, as well as to eternal glory. 

 The story is founded on the life and career of 

 one of tlie noblest of our countrymen, wh 

 really lived, toiled, and triumphed in this land 

 and by his own energy arose from the deep- 

 est obscurity to the highest fame. "Ishmael" 

 is published in a large duodecimo volume, of 

 over 700 pages, bound in morocco cloth, gilt 

 hack, price $1.75, and is for sale by all book- 

 Bellnrs, or copies of it will be sent to any one 

 to any place, at once, on their remitting the 

 price of it in a letter to the jmbliahers, T. B. 

 Peterson & Brothers, Philadelphia, Pa. 

 - " Harper's New Monthly," and -'Scribner's 

 Monthly," are upon our table; both first class 

 and all the better tor the rivalry fur superior 

 excellence. 



" The Phrenological Journal and Science 

 of Health," combuied, is a most excellent mag- 

 azine; only SSOO a year. Who can aflbrd to 

 be without it? S. R. Wells &- Co.. New 

 York. 



*' Ropp's Commercial Calculator," is a 

 work that should he in the hands of every 

 business man and farmer. The art of reck- 

 oning i« simplified, and a new system of ta- 

 bles shows at a glance the value of all pro- 

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 everything, etc. Price 60 cents to S'2, ac- 

 cording to binding. For copy, address. C. 

 Ropp, Jr., Bioomingtou, 111. 



'■ United States Newspaper Directory,'* 

 containing names of all newspaperB and oth- 

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 The most compact, concise and best arranged 

 work of the kind ever gotten up. Fur a copy 

 send f 1 with this notice to C. A. Cook 6l Co., 

 Chicago, 111. 



'* Vick's Floral (i'lide," quarterly 25 cents 

 a year, is t'le best and cheapest thini: of the 

 kind in the woihl. The first number of the 

 current year is a splendid unmber. Every- 

 body should have it. 



" Mr. Gregory, the Harblehead, Mass., 

 seedsman, sends out a fine free Catalogue of 

 his choice vegetable seeds and other valuable 

 maiter. See his udvertibcment, and send for 

 one. 



"Elocntionist's Journal," published (piar- 

 terly by Jesse Hauey & Co., 119 Nassau St., 

 Nrw York, contains late and excellent ex- 

 tracts from popular writers, dialo nes, humor- 

 ous deelamatii>ns. anecdotes, etc.. siiit^ble for 

 elocnliouary exercise. Just the thini; for 

 teacher's public entertainments. Only 40 cts. 

 per annum. 



"Fragaculture."' — Felix Oillett, of Nevada, 

 Cal., has written a very good work nu the 

 eiiltivation of the strawberry. From what 

 little we have examined the work we feel 

 alje to recunimend it as a practical jjuide for 

 all who would cultivate ihisdelicions *'rnit for 

 the table. 



•'The Pioneer," is a ne\v weekly publica- 

 tion, the oryan of the Santa (Mara (-(unity 

 Pioneers, tilled with interesting reMlini^cen- 

 ees, a cheap and popular journal, ably con- 

 ducted, by Alex. P. Murgotten, San Joso. 

 Terms, i^'lS>0 per annum. 



