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other ranchos numbering from one hundred and fifty to one 
hundred and sixty cows. At these places the buildings, man¬ 
agement of cows and manufacture of butter, are all on the 
same plan as that previously described. At some dairies the 
average yield of butter at the time of my visit, was at the rate 
of half a pound a day for each cow; but in the best season, it 
had been from a pound to a pound and a quarter. At one 
place of 1,200 acres, I found a corral of heifers, a hundred of 
which were two years old, and fifty were three years of age. 
Here, during the early part of the season, the average daily 
make of butter was one pound per cow. These heifers were of 
fine form, with a good proportion of Short-Horn blood and 
Mr Howard thought at four years old, they would make an 
annual average of two hundred pounds of butter per cow. 
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System of Farming, Suggestions , cbe .—The system of farming 
over these lands is now, of course, rude and wasteful; but Mr. 
Howard is organizing a plan for the application of manures. 
What it seemed to us should be do^ie, is to divide the lands 
up into smaller farms—say of capacity to keep a dairy of sev¬ 
enty to eighty cows—and then establish butter and cheese 
factories at convenient points, where both cheese and butter can 
be made on the associated system. In this way the estate would 
become better colonized, schools and churches would grow up, 
and the families would not be so isolated. At the same time 
by relieving the tenant from the manufacture of dairy products, 
more time and opportunity would be had in improving farms. 
Mr. Howard thought it quite probable, now that a division of 
the estate had been made, that dairy farms could be purchased 
at very reasonable prices, say $25 to $30 per acre. Considering 
the climate and the nearness to the markets on the Pacific 
coast, the situation has many advantages for practical dairy¬ 
men who desire a residence on this part of the continent. 
Looking out on the Pacific from the most Western Limit of Cen¬ 
tral California .—Desiring to see the most western limit of cen¬ 
tral California and come face to face with the broad Pacific, we 
