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nearly all the recent large provisions for agricultural 

 education and research ; it has secured fair treatment 

 from interests serving agriculture which formerly 

 dominated rather selfishly; it has enabled producers 

 to demonstrate possession of force, business acumen, 

 soundness and capacity, which have commanded the 

 confidence and respect not only of rival business 

 interests but of financial institutions. The rise and 

 progress of cooperation in its relation to agriculture 

 will be outlined in Chapter VII. The recognition 

 and enforcement of such relation may well be counted, 

 perhaps, the most widely significant factor for agri- 

 cultural advancement which the Americanization of 

 California has accomplished. 



DEVELOPMENT BY COLONIES 



The first irrigated colony of California was organ- 

 ized in 1857 on the true cooperative plan. Fifty 

 members constituted the "Los Angeles Vineyard 

 Society" which was organized in San Francisco and 

 purchased 1265 acres of land about thirty miles south- 

 east of Los Angeles near the Santa Ana River. The 

 colony was named "Anaheim." The land cost $2 an 

 acre and the water only the expense of diverting it 

 from the river. The land was laid out in fifty twenty- 

 acre farms, with roads on all sides, around a town site 

 of building lots, and in 1859 the improved property 

 was distributed to the fifty shareholders, each of whom 

 obtained a twenty-acre farm partly planted with 

 vines, a half-acre building lot in the town, a share 



