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it is steamed and the cows are fed of it morning and evening. 
Animals not in milk are fed loose hay. 
Mr. Green informed me that barley straw, cut green, made 
the best hay. The barley is sown about the first of Janu¬ 
ary, and the crop is cut the last of May, yielding at the rate of 
two and a half tons to the acre, if the land has been properly 
prepared and manured at the time of putting in the crop. 
Mr. Green says that the most trying time for the dairy stock 
in California is from the first of November to the first of Janu¬ 
ary, so far as feed is concerned ; for, although the pastures be¬ 
gin to dry up and are brown in July, still there is sufficient nu¬ 
trition in the “ bunch grass ” to carry the stock along.” 
The season of 1870 had been unusually dry, and more 
trouble had been had on account of the scarcity of water than 
for any previous year. 
The cows in this dairy make an average of about ten quarts 
of milk per day for the year; but during the “ flush feed ” the 
yield is from four to seven gallons of milk to the cow per day. 
About the last of May or first of June the dairy is usually 
doing its best. 
In answer to my inquiry in regard to preserving an even 
temperature in the milk room, Mr. G. stated that not the least 
^difficulty was had in keeping it at 65° the year round. 
Comparisons .—I have now given some of the leading features 
of California dairying. Having travelled over the dairy dis¬ 
tricts of Great Britain, France and Switzerland; with an inti¬ 
mate acquaintance of the dairy lands of the eastern and middle 
states ; of the Canadas and several of the western states, I 
found upon the Pacific slope, conditions different from any¬ 
thing seen before. The climate, the soil and the grasses are 
different, and, indeed, as compared with other dairy sections, 
so unlike, that I often found it difficult to draw satisfactory 
conclusions. 
Up to the present time stock has been kept upon extensive 
ranges. The soil is wonderfully productive in cultivated 
crops, but whether any of our artificial grasses can be intro- 
