HISTORY OF AGRICULTURE 101 



spread irrigation enterprise; the birth time of sys- 

 tematic organization for production,, protection and 

 world-wide marketing of California fruits and fruit 

 products, by increasing overland railway transporta- 

 tion. It was the first decade of multiplied produc- 

 tion and of actual first steps toward cooperation of 

 producers to handle their own products although 

 such enterprise had been foreshadowed almost from 

 the beginning. 



1890-1900. Decade of dairy awakening. State 

 provision for establishment of purity of product and 

 sanitation of surroundings. Government provision 

 for standardization of products for long shipment. 

 Wheat begins its decline and barley to advance to 

 greater production than wheat ever attained. Coop- 

 erative fruit-marketing organizations struggle for 

 permanent existence with many casualties. A decade 

 of reaction from booming development in all farming 

 lines and of confident reorganization on more reason- 

 able plans and sounder foundations. 



1900-1910. Decade of advancement of live-stock 

 industries. Wider recognition of profit and promise 

 in alfalfa. Realization of large investments in meat- 

 packing enterprises and transition from pioneer 

 methods and policies to systematic operations. Gen- 

 eral appreciation of pure-bred live-stock develops 

 from individual beliefs and efforts of preceding 

 decades. Conviction dawns that California will 

 advance to very great development of stock breeding 

 and feeding by utilization of superior adaptations 

 long foreseen, and that fruit and general farming 



