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The first harvesting being that portion which is raised 

 for hay and is cnt while in the milk. 



For be it known, that there is not such a thing as an 

 acre of what New England jjeople wonld call grass land in 

 the whole state of California. If yon go to the market and 

 order hay, you are asked whether 3^011 will have wheat, 

 oat or barley hay — this is some kind of grain, cut while 

 in the milk, cured, baled and used as hay is in New Eng- 

 land. In appearance it is much like the straw which our 

 grandmothers used to cure for l)raiding. With the grain 

 it contains it makes a very good substitute for hay. 



In the next six months everything that is going to be 

 planted or grown must he artificially irrigated^ whether it 

 be fruit, flower or shrub. Water being a necessity, large 

 and costly plants have been established for irrigation and 

 it is carried for long distances either in ditches, flumes or 

 pipes. In going into the Yosemite Valley we passed with 

 our stages under several of these V shaped flumes of 

 sufficient size, when filled with water, to float down from 

 the mountains cord wood and lumber — and the water sold 

 for irrigating crops. These sources of \vater supply are 

 not infallible. They depend more especially upon the 

 amount of snow deposited on the mountain tops, the melt- 

 ing of which keep the mountain streams replenished. 



If the snow is light, the supply of water will be liable to 

 give out before the crop is matured. 



So the next source for water supply has been the Arti- 

 sian well, when sunk along the foot hills and striking one 

 of those large underground streams flowing from the 

 mountains to the ocean, they have sometimes thrown a 

 two inch stream fifty or sixty feet high. 



liut where abundance of water is found but does not 

 flow to the surface — a wind mill and pump is attached to 

 do the Avork. 



