14 Tehama County 



Per lb. Dried Green. 



Peaches 4 to 8c i to 2c 



Prunes 2 to 5c i to 2c 



Pears 4 to loc i to 2c 



Apricots 5 to IOC i to 2c 



Almonds 6 to 15c i to 2c 



Walnuts 8 to 14c i to 2c 



Peanuts 4 to 8c i to 2c 



Average yield of fruits and nuts, per acre, from $100 to 

 $300, and in many instances one acre has yielded $500 to 

 $1000. 



About three-fourths of the peach and apricot and four- 

 fifths of the prune crops are dried, which creates a great de- 

 mand for labor. The first two named, are cut in halves and 

 laid on trays which are placed in rows on the "drying 

 grounds." The genial rays of the sun by day and the dry 

 atmosphere of night will cure it perfectly in from two to 

 four days. There were employed in the orchards of Tehama 

 County during the summer and fall of 1902, five thousand 

 men, women, girls and boys at good wages, and the de- 

 mand for help was far greater than the supply. 



Tehama County stands well in the front rank of grain 

 producing counties of the State. On the lands devoted to 

 grain about 1,500,000 bushels of wheat, oats and barley are 

 raised, on an average, annually. The greater portion of this 

 is shipped away, yet thousands of bushels find a ready mar- 

 ket at home. The major portion of this product is grown 

 south of Red Bluff along the banks of the river; in the pro- 

 ductive "Bald Hills," west of town, and on the plains west 

 of the river, between it and the foothills. The average pro- 

 duct of the county, for a number of years, was 20 bushels of 

 wheat and 30 bushels of barley and oats per acre. Near 

 Tehama 45 bushels of wheat to the acre have been har- 

 vested, and in the same locality, 30 bushels is a common 

 yield. 



Besides grain, about thirty thousand tons of grain hay 

 is harvested, annually. Along the river and some of its 

 tributaries alfalfa has been grown to some extent and four 

 crops of this hay has been harvested each season, averag- 



