A.DDI^ESS. 



By Hon. Marshall P. Wilder,. 

 noNORAiiY President of the Noufolk Agricultural Society. 



California, — A Comparative View of her Climate, Resources, and 



Progress, with Observations made in a Recent Tour to 



the Pacific Coast. 



California is a wonder ! wonderful alike for the vvald- 

 ness and grandness of her scenery, for the richness of 

 her mines, for the fertility of her soils, and for the salu- 

 brity of her climate, — a climate as delightful and healthy 

 as any upon which the sun ever shone ; a soil in whose 

 bosom most of the products of the habitable globe find a' 

 congenial home ; and a country overflowing with the 

 bounties of Providence, where God and nature seem to-- 

 have set their seal as the Garden of the World. The fer- 

 tility of her soils and the salubrity of her climate must 

 always exercise a powerful influence on the prosperity of 

 her agriculture. In most parts of the State no buildings 

 are needed for stock, and none for the storing of the 

 crops ; and the bags of grain during the summer months 

 are allowed to remain in the open field until removed for 

 shipment. 



Why the resources of such a country as California were 

 not earlier developed, seems to our finite minds a mys- 

 tery. But the marvellous workings of God's providence 

 are now clearly seen. Thus when the balance of trade 

 against our country became so large and continual, there- 



