New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-03-06

bis pack, and eat you alive when he gets home.
There that's enough. Now, Jew, you maygo!'
But it is time to close our sketch
Agriculture In California.
The experience of last season, in the agricultu-
raj operations Of California, have fully justified
The accounts sent from that country by The Tri6
une's Special Correspondent in ls49. The opin-
ion he expressed regarding the wonderful pro-
ductiveness of soil and climate, though then re-
garded, in some quarters, as extravRgant, has
since been more than verified The annexed let
ter gives some statements which may appear in
credible, but which we have every reason to be-
lieve correct:
Correspondence Of the Journal of Commerce
SAN FRANCISCO, January, 1851
In former communication, alluded to the ex.
tensive preparations making in this State for car
rying on agricultural pursuits; and, In order to
give your readers moretull and detailed account
of what was accomplished here the past year, |
have solicited from Mr. James Horner minute
account OH farming operations in 1850.
Mr. James Horner halls from Monmouth Coun-
ty, N. J. His farm is now located at the mission
Of San Jose, about 40 miles from this city, He
came here four years since, over land and has his
wife with him. Mr. Horner planted about 100
scres OF Potatoes, yielding him a crop of 80 600
bushels, averaging so lbs TO the bushel, and 27O
ten cents per pound, or the enormous sum of one
hundred and seUentyfUe thousand dollars or
what is the same thing, the whole yield of 1870
acres was 81 900 bushels, and sold at s. per BUSH
ell He also raised from four acres of land forty
thoUScnd pounds Of Onions which he sold at an
average of 40 cents per pound some OF them
weighing four pounds each.l and which crop of
Onions produced $4,000, (say four acres of On
iOnS, 10000 lbs, 40c. per pound
AS for Cdbbdges, he planted 10000, and raised
fo7ty thousand head for market, which he sold on
the average at 40 cents EACH or say, S60 900, from
Is acres
He also raised so, 1000 pounds of Tomatoes, which
he sold at prices varying from 10 TO 20 cents per
pound, or an average Of l24 cents per pound-Pro-
ducing the handsome sum of s6,25O
And for the Pumpkins about 40 tHHs,
which be sold at cents per pound, some OF them
weighing "A pounds each, but averaging 80 pounds
each--theae equalled the sum of $500
To sum up ALL we find the product Of this farm
Of less than $50 acres, was as follows:
Potatoes $1,000 Tomatoes s5SoO
Onl3hs'..''''''''''' ie 80 80 U"P -
Total Product
Exclusive Of many minor articles OF garden truck
Mr. Homer proposes the present season to plant
four hundred acres of potatoes four hundred acres
Barley &c &c and to this end, is ordering twenty
of BRYANT Il Co.'S California Plows," at 8o5
each for his own use, and says he has ust received
an importation Of ten miles" of Iron Fencing,
ordered year since by him In Liverpool, Eng
land, and which item alone costs him, put do n
here, over $4,000. From these two items, your
readers will readily perceive that capital is re-
ouired here to carry on farming, as well as any
other enterprise, though it is said, that there are
farmers who made from 100000 70 $4,000 oil
of their land last year. This looks large, but
give you the figures.
- Mr. Horner is young man, and remarked 20
me today, that he hoped another year TO DO able
with Others, who are going into the business ex-
tepsivelvl 10 drive off all foreign importaiions Of
vegetables from the Islands of the Pacific and the
Southern coast; and Judging from the yield OF
above 80 acres, We have every reason 20 suppose
that il can be done The fact is, the farming IN
terests and capacity Of California have been alto
eetber overlooked and mis-. stated butthe farmers
are now beginning 10 wake up, and realizing the
truth al it is, that the best mine In California IS
good fan m.
GOOD farming lands, in rich valleys, and within
fifty miles Of this city, be purchased at about
SO per acre, or leased out on favorable terms up
ON sbares-the owner furnishing all the stock, I'M
plemeuts of husban dry, &c and the lsborer re-
turning half the produce Of the soil. kno" OF q
farm upon the opposite coast OF 100 acres, Wnlcn
is offered 10 rent for 5000 the first year and Tor
the two succeeding years for one fifth OF the crop
There is one fact connected with farming IN
California. that is entirely overlooked by agricul-
tursts in the Atlantic States, which is this: that
Cattle are not required to be "fOddered' IN the
Winter months, as tcitk yoH The Winters OF
California are more like toe Spring Of the year
with you The grass here begins to start lmme-
diatey on the setting in of the rainy season about
the last Of November or December, which Is our
seed time and this continues Tor five or SIX months
Then the wild oats upon & thousand hills are SUI
fcient, with the native grass, TO supply all then
need, without any assistance fom man. Hogs
too, are being raised here in immense quantities,
acorns being very abundant on which they Iced
and grow fat. Barley will yield here from % 20
| 20 bushels per acre-and thousands Of acres VIII
! be sovn in this State the present season. Farm
ers and shippers will DO well to bear in mind the
! influence which home production must have on
future prices of grain, SC. From present indlca-
tons, potatoes will be sold here another year ioi
81 per bushel, mot s. Is the average Of the lss'
ak months though the present price is 70 cts'
! ner ID. or what is equal TO So 80 per busheLl
The increased attention which the extrayagsnt
rates obtained for all kinds Of vegetables. ana me