FOREWORD 



This brochure is not a systematic treatise in catechetical form 

 intended to cover what the writer holds to be most important to 

 know about California agricultural practices. It is simply a classified 

 arrangement of a thousand or more questions which have been 

 actually asked, and to which answers have been undertaken through 

 the columns of the Pacific Rural Press, a weekly journal of agricul- 

 ture published in San Francisco. Whatever value is claimed for the 

 work is based upon the assumption that information, which about 

 seven hundred people have actually asked for, would be also interest- 

 ing and helpful to thousands of other people. If you do not find in 

 this compilation what you desire to know, submit your question to 

 the Pacific Rural Press, San Francisco, in the columns of which 

 answers to agricultural questions are weekly set forth at the rate of 

 five hundred or more each year. 



This publication is therefore intended to answer a thousand 

 questions for you and to encourage you to ask a thousand more. 



E. J. WICKSON. 



