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possible navigable waters will receive benefits from this, and the indi- 

 rect benefits, of course, will come in great power to the cities of the 

 south, where this greater energy will be immediately felt. 



MR. JUDD. The object of asking the question was to get some tan- 

 gible fact whereby different localities could make themselves felt or 

 heard and where to ascertain what to do in order to get this matter in 

 proper shape. 



MR. SPRAGUE. The California Waterways Committee meets on 

 the 12th at San Francisco, and we will be glad so see any of you there 

 at the Fairmont; and in the meantime, any correspondence with that 

 committee may be sent to me at my office in Sacramento. 



THE CHAIRMAN. We will now listen to "Nut Culture in Califor- 

 nia," by Mr. Leonard Coates. 



MR. COATES. It is a little difficult to come down from these 

 subjects of so great magnitude, such as the canals and waterways and 

 all those things, to a matter of detail in the cultivation of any partic- 

 ular crop. I have endeavored to sift it down, trying to make a few 

 points as briefly as possible. 



NUT CULTURE IN CALIFORNIA. 



By LEONARD COATES, of Morgan Hill. 



Twelve years ago the United States Department of Agriculture pub- 

 lished a very interesting report on "Nut Culture in the United States," 

 covering very comprehensively descriptions of all species and varieties 

 of nuts then cultivated in this country, giving the various methods 

 adopted and results attained, from the experience of practical men 

 engaged in the business. 



A glance over this work at this time, and in view of much added 

 experience, is particularly valuable, expressed opinions in some cases 

 being confirmed, and in others being useful only negatively. 



However, nut culture in; California embraces only the almond and 

 the walnut as established industries of commercial importance, omitting 

 the peanut as belonging more to vegetable culture, and alluding to the 

 pecan, filbert, chestnut, and pistache as still in more or less of an experi- 

 mental stage. 



In the current Yearbook of the Department is published the article 

 on "Nuts and Their Uses as Food," by Prof. M. E. Jaffa, of the Uni- 

 versity of California. This forms an exceedingly interesting, instructive, 

 and valuable addition to the literature pertaining to the subject. A 

 study of it can not fail to impress any one with the fact of the rapidly 

 growing importance of nut culture, and the permanent establishment of 

 the commercial product as one of the great food factors of the United 

 States. 



