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SEMI-TROPIC CALIFORNIA _ 
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Following are tho only Slates that excel | Uie ffovermont -1-dislician m correct our 
un in tbo value of tlioir general farm pro-. wheat yield of 1H7H wmld hurt- |. | 
I £1*1 finA • . ■ ... 
THE AGRICULTURAL STATUS OF CALI¬ 
FORNIA 
TF1HE report of tlie Commissioners of Ag- 
-*- rieultiiro. forIhevaar 1878,give*»onm 
highly interesting stutistirci, showing the 
agricultural productions of thia Stale fur 
that year. They urn figures that should he 
reiki hynll; by our own people that they 
limy become cognizant of the fact that with 
our sparse population of less than three lo 
tin) square mile, we have already attained 
to the front rank among our best agricul¬ 
tural States; aud by those meditating a re¬ 
moval to our genial clime that they may bn 
made aware that with an increase of pnpu 
lation, which shall bring us up to the 
standard of the average Eastern Slate. Cal 
ifornia will become the granary and the 
fruit orchard of the world. 
Familiar with tlm progress of the Slat, 
since 1857, we were prepared for figures 
showing large n suits, Out we must confess 
we were astonished to be apprised t.huf Cal¬ 
ifornia produced in 1878 one tenth of tin- 
wheat grown in the country I And had w«j 
met the statement that out wheat was worth 
mure than the crop of the State of Ohio— 
tin- next largest producer—in a loss repu¬ 
table publication, we should have doubled 
tlm correctness of it. Thu tables of the 
report appear to he made up with gloat 
cure, so we tan find no justification lor 
doubting whnt we have m. inclination to 
disbelieve, and are pleased to find our 
State, hitherto celebrated for it-genial oli- 
ninte and sands of gold, as famous tor its 
immense crops of the ueot-aearie* of life. 
Our random will hardly need an apology 
from us for devoting u’littJe space to some 
of tlm facta of the report, 
Tim entire wheat crop of the country for 
1878, m giv.-r, ,it 420,122.400 bushels.’ Ol 
this amount California produced 41,.‘100,000 
bushels, or on6 tenth. The value u f ll)e 
entire crop wan the round sum uf $320,- 
.1-10,424, and tbo worth of California's por¬ 
tion thereof was $48,2411,701), or about one 
ninth. Next to California U i quantity 
Stand h Ohio, with her .'81.120,(100 bushel's 
8,870,000 I,i s and a valuation of $ 28 , 
483,200, or H4.7llfi.50ll b-,« tlmu that uf 
California Tho yield of whi'ut in Ohio 
was about elt-v.-ti bushels per head fi*i each 
inhabitant, while Hint ol d.ilitoruln wn- 
at,onl seventy-four hushufn. The yadd ,„ r 
lo r. in Ohio wa>. eight, el, bushels', and III 
California Huveiitimn bushels, but our Kssei 
jielil was atonod fur m tho superior pi ire, 
for our wheat averaged fl.llO par bushel’ 
while that uf Ohio av,lugud Imt Hi; cOIttf 
J. ho same publication gives us the total 
valuation uf the principal agricultural pro -1 
duction* of each Him.■. Here again Cab 
forma stands prominently in tho fore 
ground, there being but fivoof tho old eel- 
tied States ahead uf bur, and she lm . to 
overcome lh, valuable cotton „ml tobacco 
c",j»s of the Southern States u, assorting 
hex supremacy. 
ducts: 
Sew York . ...fill ,2'„s,Bfi4 
Pennsylvania ... 00.fi.',.'(.70S 
i Ohio. W,7SK»,6;t3 
Indiana. .. WJ.49S.012 
Illinois . 115. 122,.(S', 
83,080 ems, with fifteen Ions each, ami 
with on« freight tniiu of twenty earn per 
day, ns now run by the Southern Par if 
Tho principal crops of California and 
tlioir valuation ate given aa follows: 
I n, linn Cum 
Wheat ., 
Ryu . 
Unis _ . 
Harley 
9 •J,0»0.S6|i 
, 43.349.700 
lie Id 
IJ.fMiJ, Girt, 
11.717.5,10 
incisrtO, it 
a to move 
uf wh.at 
road, between here and San Pi 
would Luke cloven nmtn half yea 
tho crop ! 41,990,000 bus I, cl* 
would hind 1,20 ships with 2,000 
and keep the pro|w«i*d Isthmus 
the entire year, passing tberu 
Atlantic to (tin Pu.iBc and r 
tlie** statislieu are correct, with l. 
. ... MJPHVMiVViVVPPQPBV.- laboring fanners, tlie ipianlity can i a-dy 
1 4,2911.018 bu dull his, 1. anil po 
anal busy 
from the 
tun.7 If 
i,iru>«)Ki 
* ,rty .— 1 <'■,•(l ( 1 1 With sMch an increase, how insd*s|iiat<-«rw 
Total . ?7\5l2,fir.Hj' oul facilities to gi t it lo market. .| will, 
T , , ...... . , .In Inrge iuorrar 1 '- certain, it i- m-t »uriri*,- 
It will bo noticed that our,mn, sc fruit „ to *, ,. ,1m cap.ialmt. . 1 . - a „.| 
crop w not, taken mto the account, neither j Kun ,„ r , 
is our wine, wool or honey accounted for,. hlmt ., tb , traffic .i,.U 
or our dairy products. W,■ draw upon | lim lo ()tT , ond lt m n „ t „ t |. r 
1 .... .. i 
• • ■ i ■ » • r»" 
an approximation of our total productions, 
that 'lie render—inor,- especially a distant 
one—may know the magnitude, of our an¬ 
nual harvests, and the imuionso wealth 
being yearly brought out of the bosom of 
mother earth: 
'«rif tiltnnil Pro4oet«, ««above .$ 7H,5J2,05K 
Gulrt and ndvnr. an.unu.onO 
Wnul. B.QOO.OUQ 
ftliaep. Jl.09J.2tl0 
IIuimsh hDiI Mules .. , 13,700.718 
t'uw-s, Oxiu, itu.... .. 31,002,740 
Hag*.. 1,101.7 it) 
I-rmt Hint Wine, estimat'd 3,000.000 
Uuirj Proilnets, eslliualed. a.OOn.ooO 
Total. *170,579,15(1 
Having no reliable figures ut hand we 
n e unable to give any estimate of our cool, 
quicksilver, lumber, honey, small vegeta¬ 
bles, beans, petroleum, and manufactures, 
liuL unquestionably they would swell our 
total to $200,000,1)00 or above. 
It in mneruherad that among her sister 
States, California ranks twenty-fourth in 
point of population, and second iu size, 
having an area of 188,081 square miles, or 
120,9o7,54U lures. Our principal crops, 
gui ri above, werogrown on 4,03(1,110(1 mies. 
which is but about, one tbirtieth of our 
total area, and leaving us for oilier uat« 
Iha imrueusn breadth of about 117,000,000 
acn . Wo find, also, that, wu have but 
2.20 inhabitant* to the square mile, ur,^„, ... ... mT .. 
abonl 210 ncresof land to each inbabilanl ; fully guns over (In- Mnimi 
III point of population tu the acre w. rank uti, male, eivi - and t *t..ffe 
thirty-four !ii, Massachusetts mnksas fust, ‘ * 
with 18(1.84 iiilinbitiiiita to (lie Ntiuure mile, 
ltbodu l-lnml, socuud, with llih.40; t'on 
naolii'iit, third, with 113.13; New Jsrasy; 
fourth, with 108,01; Illinois bm 4584,1 
Ohio, (ifi flll, un.I Ponusylvama, 7(1 fin 
projectedrnilruuds, and tbs I-lhmus ue si 
as well, will be required to nw-i-t (1- wants 
of llns coast ere anutlier score of vear» 
shall roll away. Twenty-three u.k ogu 
tlie East and Chili fed un with flour; now 
our flour feeds China, tbs i~Uu.Uof ll.-v H .i, 
the East, and the old nuinaiebii - - ■( Eunq - 
Then gold w ils kiug. and the dwelt.... in the 
" cow counties W ere held iu den-eon but 
the sceptre has cbuugod hands, and ( . r.- 
reigns tiiumpLant, and llm * bonanza 
kings" will never resume the tlm-m 
The pick and shovel make a -d. -wing of 
but $ 20 , 000 ,(;0l), while the plow and the 
reaping liouk go them •• better" to tbo tune 
of $180,000,000. It is certainly a gratify¬ 
ing showing, and we bow tu th< ucw ro- 
gi«u*, and ring: "Long live C.n-s, the 
queen of tin) iiusbaudman, tb. fiMvbr uf 
thouatiousl" It. H. H, 
FENCING AND FENCES. 
This important subject conn - borne to 
every owner of a faun or . f a villagi lot 
that, tiapiin-s inulosurs. At n meeting of 
New Hainp-liirc farmers,M icml -tetler.i.-n 
ptiblielj olb-red to sell thoir farm* for less 
than wlml the existing fencing on them bad 
xmst. In a recent nd.lrv.* nt an \gn. ul 
tuial Cunvcutiou, Mr A AV Cboinr, 
editor " N. K. Knrm.-r, *.»id he had . ,r. 
of fat ms, 
.andlund 
that " It takes, on tin mein, r for the 
whole eonntry, $1.74 worth of fin.. - k 
keejj $1,0A Worth of ntoek fl 
$2 4u worth of crops to. .1 
In Houtli. in California, the 
< \p>-n.u- lutury id n fee. a . 
"I 
H will b. uoen that out Hpar*. p.qmh ,ib. a* w.- have n .took l i . 
lion bail Hindi a gaud record in cultivating | .•umj,|. t- w-ik n. nd. > A - 
iho «nl, .In,l Hiring •>. wr lint, most uf tin- f..» mile* Ihlimgh on I ni• 1 - Ml 
Old jnipuloUH SbitiM, And. with our pres- along thegiuwmj . ,-ops M.i.i 
• ut atalun tu build umm. w.» mo almo-l quit, lto p,o|.and dii.-l,*.,, i 
IiimI ll> ■■JWI i mil» 14. .1. « *1... ....a... .. I . . - . ... 
---- ■ — ■■ I ** V ■ »■ "IIIM--I 
IiimI III nanteiuplnling tlie immensity of our *ncun- than if uu«h 
j liarvests. when Pin Stall -Imll have lie. omo ; an,l mil fam e 
: ft* populous as an AIi.s«ai'lu»itl» and j t he cost of feiiem 
till...I.i Island, ami when the hands of in added to tlm pin . 
j Indigent imlunliy ahull put all of ...u ,,,,, | >01 | H would Is 
; valley H into gnies and grain (ielda, and otlr e| i-wbere, w hen tl,. 
j hilluntes into urehanlH and vinoynrds. If am coino.ierad. 
St ic* and 
di-pcused 
i full an<l 
can ndo 
yards nml 
lf»lll‘eti 
fv 
>«t 
id try a double j. 
in tin East might l>o 
ut lands here, uml slill 
cheaper than llroae 
ptwhlotivu quubUi n 
