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Fruit Farming for Profit i7i California, 



CLIMATE OF EL TOEO. 



Califoexiaxs have long ceased to be surprised at any 

 of the phases of climate the State presents, but the 

 foreigner is surprised when told that this district, which 

 in a short time is destined to make a world-wide repu- 

 tatic n for its green and dried fruit shipments, has a 

 better average climate than any other portion of the 

 State But so it is. Common-sense explanation of 

 the fact that El Toro and Los Alisos Yalley has a 

 climate unsurpassed in the world for fruit growing 

 may be interesting, but it requires too much space to 

 be dealt with here. Ocean currents and other causes, 

 however much discussed, are not so convincing as the 

 plain matter-of-fact figures supplied by public reports. 

 All civilized nations publish meteorological observa- 

 tions, and it is from these of our own and other 

 governments that this table is compiled : — 



Places. 



Mean per 5 ear. 



Mean for 

 Winter. 



Mean for 

 Coldest Month. 





60-05 



46-07 



45 00 





58-03 



4502 



43-02 





62-06 



49-0) 



47-04 





5803 



40 02 



43 02 





64-08 



61-12 



57-02 



El Toro, Orange Co., Cai 



55*6 



54-00 



51-05 



There can be no escaping these facts, and no attempt 



