14 FIELD OPF.EATIONS OF THE BUREAU OF SOILS, 1910. 



peaches, in'unes. and a})ricots of importance in the order named. The 

 peaches are used mainly for canning and drying, Muir, Crawford, and 

 Elberta being the varieties mostly used. Apricots are both dried and 

 shipped as green fi'uit. Figs, almonds, olives, pears, and grapes are 

 well represented. (See PI. I, fig. '2.) The 100-acre irrigated pear 

 orchard of the Cone ranch is reported to have netted its owners 

 $32,000 in one year. There are many good orchards of the above 

 fruits in the Red Blutf area, but also great numbers of poorly cared 

 for or entirely abandoned orchards. This condition arises from va- 

 rious causes, but is often due to the selection of dry elevated soils, 

 where it is too much to expect fruit trees to thrive without irrigation. 

 Some injudicious colonization has taken place. Considerable sections 

 have been planted and sold in small holdings with the idea of special 

 crops without irrigation. Scarcely a vestige remains of some such 

 attempts. The probable adaptations of the several soils for dry- 

 i^'armed crops are covered in the soil-type descriptions. 



Green feed is abundant during the winter season, but the dairying 

 industry suffers for want of such feed in the summer months. Under 

 irrigation the industry should expand immensely. 



Tehama County is one of the banner sheep counties of the State, 

 with about 300,000 head. Cattle number about 30,000. Stock range 

 in the mountains from May to October and in the valley during the 

 winter, when they are fattened. The cattle and sheep industries are 

 not likely to assume much larger proportions than they have at 

 present. 



Alfalfa is the principal hay crop and is grown mainly in the Sac- 

 ramento bottoms without irrigation. A mill for the manufacture of 

 alfalfa products has been established at Alfalfa, south of Red Bluff. 



The Stanford ranch at Vina has about 3,000 acres in grapes of the 

 wine varieties. The dairying, wine, and alfalfa industries at that 

 place are well handled and arc a remarkable example of farming 

 on a large scale. 



Most of the vegetables and truck ci'ops are grown by Chinese. As 

 usual in this section of the country the farmers buy such products. 



Several cars of citrus fruits are reported shipped from Corning 

 each year (see PI. II, fig. 1). The future extension of this industry 

 is uncertain. 



Two or three hop iiclds are found in the Sacramento bottoms. 

 Poultry raising is quite an industry, especially to the west of Corn- 

 ing. Climatic conditions are very favorable and great increases 

 in this branch are probal)le. 



The Red Bluff area [jroduces many agricultural products, but 

 agriculture is in a very unsatisfactory state. The natural wealth 

 of the section in undevelojx'd resources is immense. Its diversity 

 of soils and r;i\uial>l(' cjiniatic conditions will some day make it a 



