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campaign ; longer season for harvesting ; longer run of the 

 factory ; greater yield per acre ; greater percentage of sugar ; 

 immunity from frost and rain at critical periods. These are 

 some of the climatic advantages which experience and 

 scientific experiments have established. 



WATER FOR IRRIGATION 



Tehama County is the most abundantly watered county 

 in the State. The large rainfall in the valley, coupled with 

 the fact that great areas have been in single holdings, de- 

 voted to wheat growing or stock raising has in former years 

 not only retarded diversity of products, but has contributed 

 to the erroneous belief that irrigation was neither desirable 

 or necessary, and irrigation has not been much resorted to. 

 Wheat growing having become less profitable, attention is 

 being directed to more diversified culture, and plans for 

 more general irrigation are being considered, since it has 

 been found that even on our best lands water is a distinctive 

 source of general production and makes agriculture more 

 profitable, by adding many new products to the farm. Ir- 

 rigation is practiced in some parts of our county and the 

 results have given unmistakable proof of the advantages 

 gained thereby, both in quantity and quality of the product, 

 and with the facilities at hand, it can be extensively prac- 

 ticed at a trifling cost. 



TIMBER SUPPLY 



There is an abundant timber supply all over this county. 

 There is no township but what has timber for fuel and there 

 are sections of Tehama County which have some of the 

 largest forest growths on this continent. All along the 

 streams are cottonwoods, sycamores, alders, oaks and white 

 maples. On the valley land bordering the Sacramento 

 River, on both sides, there are large areas of oak parks, 

 containing many trees of astonishing size. In parts of the 

 higher lands of the valley these oak parks are also found. 

 On the Coast Range there are fine timber growths, mostly 

 pine, fir and spruce. It is in the Sierra Nevada Range, how- 

 ever, that the great forest belt of the county is situated. 



