INDEX OF SECTIONS. 



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PAGE. 

 Sacramento-San Joaquin 



Valley 215 



Farming Advantages 215 



Disadvantages 217 



Droughts 218 



Fences 219 2 



Varieties of Wheat 22 1 



Quality 222 



Yield 226 



228 



231 

 232 

 232 

 233 



234 



Cost 



Barley 



Oats 



Maize 



Potatoes 



Hay 



Hops 



Tobacco 235 



Cotton 237 



Kitchen Vegetables 237 



Fruit 239 



Abundance of Fruit 242 



Grapes 242 



Large Vines and Vine- 



T 7 ards 2 43 



Varieties 244 



Advantages 247 



Vine-planting 



Wine Yield 



Wine-making 251 



Fermentation 252 



Kinds of Wine 



Defects of our Wine 



Sparkling California 257 



Apples 258 



Peaches 



Pears 



Apricots and Plums 261 



Olives 261 



Oranges 262 



Berries 263 



Ornamental Gardens 264 



Arboriculture ... 266 



Pests of the Farmer 266 



Irrigation 268 



Reclamation 271 



Products of our Herds 



Sheep 272 



Neat Cattle 276 



Spanish Cattle 276 



Rodeos 278 



Brands 2 



Early Maturity 282 



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203. Corral and Reata 283 



204. Occasional Starvation . . . 284 



Fine Blood 284 



Pasture 285 



207. Butter 285 



08. Cheese 286 



209. Horses 287 



210. Mules 289 



211. Swine 290 



212. Angora Goats 290 



229213. Poultry 291 



214. Bees 291 



215. Sericulture 294 



MINING CHAP. IX. 



216. Mining Products 296 



217. Number of Gold Miners . 296 



218. Profit of Gold Mining .. 298 



219. Gold Yield 299 



220. Gold Mines 299 



221. Placers 300 



222. Ditches 302 



223. Flumes 303 



224. Iron Pipe 304 



225. Expensive Construction . 305 

 248 226. Measurement of Water . . 306 

 250 227. Cleaning Up 307 



228. Riffle-bars 308 



229. Double Sluices 308 



254 230. Rock Sluices 308 



255 231. Hydraulic Washing .... 309 



232. Ground Sluices 312 



233. Cradle 313 



260 234. Sluice 313 



260235. Pan 314 



236. Dry Washing 315 



237. Puddling Box 315 



238. Tunnel Claims 316 



239. Shafts 317 



240. River Mining 317 



241. Beach Mining 317 



242. Placer Prospecting 319 



243. Quartz Mining 320 



244. Prospecting for Quartz . . 320 

 272 245. Quartz Mining as a Busi- 

 ness 322 



246. Rich Mines 323 



247. Extraction 325 



248. Pulverization 326 



249. Arrastra 326 



250. Amalgamation 3 2 7 



