398 



INDEX 



Poultry, coast and valley, 273 



districts, 271 



improved breeds, 270 



industry, 260 



product, 104 

 Prevost, L., 282 

 Producers and traders' ideas, 



296 



Production prophesied early, 98 

 Products enumerated, 103 

 Prune-growing, 188 

 Prunes, number of trees, 178 



product of, 103 

 Pruning, California styles, 174 

 Public schools, 343 



department of, 337 

 Pure-bred animals, numbers 

 of, 213 



R 



Radish seed product, 155 

 Railroads, early demand, 291 

 Rainfall, table of, 366 



when sufficient, 313 

 Rainy season described, 17 

 Raisin making, 186 



product, 103 

 Ramie-growing, 204 

 Range area reduced, 222 

 Red-top, 114 



Regional subdivisions, 18 

 Regions described, 19 

 Relief map interpreted, 11 

 Residual soils, 35 

 Rice-growing, 144 



product, 103, 146 



rotations with, 147 

 Riparian rights, 320 

 Rivera, Captain, 213 

 Rivers of California, 52 

 Roads, wasteful expenditure, 

 327 



(see Highways) 

 Rural Credit Commission, 340 

 Rural credit secured, 330 

 Rural schools, 347 

 Rye-grass, 114 



growing, 152 



product, 103 



Saddle, primacy of California, 



240 

 School of tropical agriculture, 



356 



Schools of pioneers, 344 



Schrader's brome, 115 



Seasons, wet and dry, 16 



Seed-growing, 152 

 history of, 153 

 product, 104 

 varieties grown, 155 



Sequoias described, 43 



Sessions, C. H., quoted, 2G2 



Shaw, C. F., quoted, 35 



Sheep at missions, 248 

 first anti-dog law, 253 

 for other states, 257 

 growers organize, 252 

 improved by Americans, 250 

 Mexican described, 240 

 number and value, 259 

 numbers of, 104 

 outlook, 259 

 pure-breds introduced, 251 



Shorthorn cattle introduced, 

 216 



Silk-growing, manufacture, 284 

 vicissitudes, 282 



Simpson, J. C.. quoted, 121 



Sisal fiber, 206 



Slaughtering and packing 

 product, 104 



Smilo grass, 115 



Smith, A. P., 153 



Smith, Jedediah, 68 



Social recognition of farming, 



Soil areas mapped, 370 



characters, 31 



described, 28, 36 



diversity of, 28, 41 



relation to irrigation, 313 



studies outlined, 33 



unique, 42 

 Sorghum forage, 150 



grain as stock feed, 150 



sugar and sirup, 193 

 Southern Coast region, 22 

 Spanish agriculture in Cali- 

 fornia, 62 



State Board of Education, 348 

 Statistical appendices, 363 

 Stockholders' organizations 



299 



Stockman, essentials of, 211 

 Storage of water indispen- 

 sable, 324 



Strawberries, acreage of, 178 

 Strong, J. M., 201 

 Suffolk hogs introduced, 264 

 Sugar-beet production, 191 



