PROMOTION PARAGRAPHS 



THE walnut season opened several weeks earlier than usual. The 

 California nuts are about six weeks ahead of the foreign product, 

 which is both late and below the standard in quantity. The Los 

 Angeles Walnut Growers' Association is realizing prices nearly forty 

 per cent in advance of those of other seasons. 



The Fresno raisin-growers are finding a very strong Eastern market 

 for the California raisin, and prices are ruling high. Five and five and a 

 half cents are being offered, and the growers are holding for six. 



The prune shipments are well along now. The crop has been light, 

 running about 30 per cent of normal, but the quality is fine, and prices 

 are very good. The bulk of the crop is going at ninety dollars a ton, and 

 some of it will fetch one hundred dollars. 



The grape crop of the season now closing has been enormous, the 

 prices nevertheless remaining firm. Something over three thousand car- 

 loads of grapes were shipped from California points. 



The Lodi district, besides making heavy consignments of table grapes, 

 sent immense quantities of wine grapes to the wineries. The new electric 

 railroad between Stockton and Lodi played an important part in shipping 

 the vineyard product. 



The season's crop of almonds is short in some places and consequently 

 the Contra Costa County almond-growers, whose crop is very full, are 

 enjoying an active market and high prices. Fifteen cents a pound is being 

 realized, with chances for a higher figure shortly. 



The Marysville district shipped six or seven carloads of grapes a day 

 for a period of some weeks. In Yolo County the grape-growers are count- 

 ing this their banner year. All conditions have been favorable. The crop 

 was larger than usual and the quality unsurpassed. The yield of the pres- 

 ent season has been the largest in the history of the county. Not less 

 than twenty carloads a day were shipped out of Yolo. 



The Boulder Creek vicinity, in Santa Cruz County, has specialized in 

 fancy varieties of grapes, some of which bring as high as from twenty- 

 seven dollars to thirty-two dollars a ton. 



There has never been a time in the history of the State when so 

 many local projects in railroad building were simultaneously in hand. 

 This means new intensive farming areas opening up, and it means better 

 shipping facilities for the California fruit-growers throughout the State. 



The rapidly extending use of irrigation is opening up vast areas to 

 the colonist and small farmer, that have been until now abandoned to 

 pasturage. Under the stimulating influence of the irrigation ditch and 

 the electric railroad, new colonies and towns spring up like mushrooms, 

 and flourish like the green bay-tree. 



The December Number of . . . 



FOR CALIFORNIA 



will be 



DEVOTED ENTIRELY TO BIRDS AND 

 BIRD LIFE OF CAUFORNIA 



The writers are those especially qualified, by a lifelong study of the feathered tribe, 

 to present the different aspects of this subject. 



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