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dry season, and there is no underbrush to hinder their free mo- 

 tion. 



Mr. Shelton : I pulled the two beets shown at this Club last 

 year. They weighed, one 47 pounds and the other 63 pounds. 

 The ground where they grew was ploughed and harrowed, the seed 

 sown in rows. Very few of them came up. They were planted 

 in May and pulled up in October. They grew with only four to six 

 inches of the root in the ground, the main bodies out of the ground 

 about two feet ; among them turnip beets, one of which weighed 

 45 pounds, was boiled and served up at a table where about two 

 or three hundred persons partook of it. It was fine. 



Mr. Dey : There was no dish large enough to hold it. It was 

 as fine and delicate as any beet I ever tasted. It had no strings 

 in it. 



Mr. Shelton : I observed that common onions had sometimes 

 produced, there, top onions. 



AGRICULTURE OF CALIFORNIA. 



Mr. Meigs read — Agricultural Fair, Sacramento, Oct. 7, 1852. 

 An address by Dr. John F. Morse, and a large exhibition of flow- 

 ers, fruits, and farm crops, viz : 



Major Bennett's farm and garden. The garden of 30 acres, aijd 

 60 acres of grain ; employs ten men ; receipts from the garden 

 weekly |595. 



Smith & Barber, farm, 30 acres of garden, yield $60 a day. 



Mr. Southwick keeps 125 cows, at a cost of |600 per month j 

 sells per day 175 gallons of milk, at $1 per gallon ; has an annu- 

 al revenue of $63,000 from his dairy alone. 



General Hutchinson — 800 acres of barley, 50 bushels per acre, 

 weighs 52 lbs. tlie bushel ; worth $91,584. 



Mr. J, C. Davis— 600 acres; 200 head of stock. 



