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Mr. Hawkes of Saugus, advanced the idea that poultry 

 now and is destined to be a main source of income and fer- 

 tilizer on the farm ; he believed there was no danger of the 

 poultry business being overdone and cited a case of an ex- 

 tensive poulterer who kept seven thousand or eight thousand 

 hens and made a very profitable thing of it. 



At the afternoon session President Ware spoke upon "The 

 Agricultural and Pomological Products of California." To 

 give an idea of the state Mr. Ware said it was three times 

 as large as all New England, and then have enough left to 

 make two states the size of Massachusetts, while its sea- 

 coast stretched as far as from here to Georgia. 



He advanced a theory as to the State's wonderful climate. 

 In winter the thermometer rarely reaches freezing and in 

 summer rarely a hundred; the theory concerning the tem- 

 perature was that the big ocean stream in the Pacific, which 

 corresponds with our Gulf Stream but is much larger, gov- 

 erns the temperature. Everything there is conducted on a 

 large scale, and the great land holdings are typical of the 

 place; some of these great lands were bought for a very 

 small sura of money, one that he cited containing thirty 

 square miles that was bought for twelve hundred dollars 

 near Monterey as late as 1856. 



Gen. Bidwell's ranch which he visited consists of twenty- 

 two thousand acres, which is under the most complete culti- 

 vation. He has seven thousand acres in orchard, one thou- 

 sand in wheat, several hundred head of cattle, five hundred 

 horses, six thousand sheep, and raises apricots, prunes, nuts, 

 raisins, etc., One thousand acres are devoted to natural' 

 scenery, with immense native oaks, etc. 



Most fruit trees come into perfect bearing condition in six 

 years; this ranch is about one hundred miles from Sacra- 

 mento in Sacramento valley; the owner, however, confesses 

 that the place does not pay expenses, because it is too large. 



The schools and educational facilities of the state, except 

 in the sparsely settled portions, the speaker considered as- 

 good as in New England. 



