BROWN FAMILY IN CALIFORNIA. 



to go. "You've raised a tremendous lot of garden truck, vegetables and poultry, be- 

 sides your hogs, five milch cows, two horses. You have had every acre producing — you 

 have raised fodder for your stock and turned alfalfa and skim milk into pork. You 

 haven't taken chances on crops you didn't know anything about, and next year you 

 will find a bigger balance in the bank." 



So we wished our kind neighbors a prosperous New Year and turned in for a good 

 light's sleep, our hearts full of hope and confidence in the future. 



)ln the February number of For California will appear some interesting and profitable 

 facts about irrigation and what the Brown Family learned about it. 



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Eight and a Half Million Pounds of Poultry and Fifteen Million Pounds of 

 Butter and Eggs Brought Here in One Year. 



Millions of dollars' worth of products that can be and are raised here successfully 

 are brought to California from the East each year. 



The California Promotion Committee announces the following imports from the 

 East for the fiscal year ending June 30th, 1904. These figures are compiled from sta- 

 tistics furnished by the various transportation companies: 



Imports. Tons. 



Butter and Eggs 7,171.5 



Poultry 4,227.0 



Cheese 2,002.0 



Hams and Bacon 603.0 



Beef and Pork 2,044.0 



Lard 3,566.0 



Meat in bulk 11,012.0 



Tallow and Grease 132.0 



Packing House Products 7,253.0 



Cottolene 630.0 



Tankage 360.0 



Live Stock 20,550.0 



Total (in tons) of imports 59,550.5 



The exports of the same products for the same period were only 714 tons, of 

 which there were 41 tons of butter, 20 tons of packing house products, 13 tons of lard, 

 the remainder being live stock. The figures given are conservative. In all cases 

 where shipments have been made in car-load lots, the minimum carrying capacity 

 for the different invoices have been taken. If the average had been taken these fig- 

 ures would show up bigger than they do; but for the sake of over stating the lowest 

 possible estimate is given in every case. The amount of poultry imported into the 

 State during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1904, is close to eight million pounds, and 

 it is believed by the Committee that for the year 1904 almost ten million pounds of 

 poultry will have been brought from Eastern States. 



California pays millions of dollars to the East for these products. Were the im- 

 ports enumerated in the table given to be estimated as low as 10 cents per pound, 

 they would have a valuation of $11,910,100; but butter, eggs and poultry, as well as 

 most of the other products enumerated, are not to be shipped here to take the place 

 of California products at these figures, as anyone who raises poultry knows. The Com- 

 mittee believes that the amount of money sent out of the State each year for products 

 which could be raised on the small farm reaches far up into the millions. Besides the 

 articles given in the Committee's tables, thousands of tons of vegetables of every 

 kind are brought into California every year. All these articles can be raised here, not 

 only to supply Californians, but to supply the markets of the world. The supply of 

 poultry products in most localities throughout the State is not nearly equal to the de- 

 mand, and this is brought out practically by the products herein enumerated. 



California has grown more rapidly during the last two or three years than In a 

 decade previous, and thousands of acres have been made available for the small settler 

 so that he can go into Diversified Farming. It is estimated during the past year no 

 less than 460,000 acres of land have been thrown open to irrigation. Larger quanti- 

 ties of poultry are raised in California every year; dairying is increasing at the rate 

 of over a million dollars a year, and yet the poultry and dairy products are shipped into 

 the State in great quantities. 



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