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draw a dead beef steer aloni^- the ground in the same 

 manner. 



In '5i-'52 tine argicultural implements of American 

 inanufacture were imported, and agricultural pursuits 

 on a broad scale were inaugurated by Yankee enter- 

 prise. Seed grain commanded exorbitant prices. 1 

 paid fifteen cents a pound for seed barley in '52, and in 

 '54 my crop was estimated at 7,000 bushels. About 

 one-third of that amount only was obtained, the de- 

 crease being the result of the grasshopper invasion. 



From small beginnings California rapidly advanced 

 to become one of the largest grain and fruit producing 

 States in the Cnion. The total wheat crop in one year 

 has exceeded thirty million bushels, and a correspond- 

 ing amount of other cereals, all of a superior quality. 

 The California wheat and barley are produced upon 

 land that is free from all obstructions, where the gang- 

 plow can run uninterruptedly over hundreds of thou- 

 sands of acres. The fruit industry surpasses that of 

 any country in the world. The climate and soil of the 

 State are so diversified that every variety of fruit pro- 

 duced in the temperate and almost tropical zones may 

 be found here. Over* seventeen thousand carloads of 

 citrus fruit of the finest quality grown in any country 

 were shipped in 1900. The jM-evious year, twenty-six 

 thousand carloads of deciduous fruit were sent out of 

 the State. The total horticultural and agricultural 

 products shipped in the year 1898. including wines and 

 brandy, was fifty-six thousand one hundred and forty- 

 nine carloads. T (|uote from the re])ort of the State 

 P>oard of Trade. 



Sheep have numbered nearly seven million ; the an- 

 nual production of wool reaching fifty-six million five 



