The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1859-11-24

system becomes inevitable. The cattle
grower must fence off portion of his
range aud SOW it to Indian Corr, to Sor-
ghum, to TurDips, Beets, and Carrots,
wherewith to supply the deficiency of his
Summer and Fall feed. Then he can
keep much larger herd than ia now
prof able if possible, and may double bis
annual product of Cheese or Butter At
present, judge this product to be all
er per COW or per acre in California than
in almost any other State, except what is
made in the high valleys of the Sierra
Nevada.
Fruit, however, is destined to be the
ultimate glory Of California. Nowhere
else on earth is it produced 40 readily or
SO bountifully. Such Pears, Peaches,
Apricots, Nectarines, &C., as load the
trees of this valley. and of nearly every
valley in the State which has had any
cbauoe to produce them, would stsgger
the faith of nine -tenths of my readers.--
Peach trees only six years set, which
have borne four large burdens of fruit
while growing luzuriantly each year. are
quite common. Appletrees, but three
years set, yet showing at least bushel
OF large. fair fruit, are abundant. [ have
seen Peach.trees four or five years from
the States which have all the fruit they
can stagger under, yet have grown three
feet of new wood over this load during
the current season. Dwarf Pears, Just
stuck into the black loam, and nowise fer
tlliZed or cultivated, but covered with
fruit the year after they were set, and
tbeneeforward bearing larger and larger
yields with each succeeding Summer, are
seen IN almost every tolersbly cared for
Fruit-patch. | canuot discover an in
stance in which any fruit tree, having
borne largely one year, consults its digni-
ty or its ease by standing still or growing
wood only the next year, as is comuon
our way. | have seen Green Cages and
other Plum trees so thickly set With fruit
that an sure the plains aould far out
weigh the trees, leaves and all. And
not one borer, curculio, caterpillar, apple
worm, or other nuisance of that large aud
undelightful family, appears to De known
IN all this region. Under hundred fruit
trees, you will not see one bulb which has
preGl aturely fallen-a victim to this de-
structiVe brood.
OF Grapes, it is hardly yet time to
speak so sanguinely as many do; for years
will be required to ,euder certain their
exemption from the diseases aud the de-
vaetators known to other lands of the
vine. But it is certain that some kinds
Of Grapes base been grown around the
old Jesuit Missions for generations. with
little care and much success; and it does
not appear that the more delicate varie
ties recently introduced are less thrifty
or more subject to attack than their Span
ish predecessors, and Vineyards are be-
ing multiplied and expanded in almost
every iarming nelg ghborhoood; single vines
and patches OF choice varieties are shoot
iug up in aluost every garden throug bout
the Mining region, and there can be lit.
tie doubt that California is already bet
ter supplied with the grape than any 9TH
er State OF the Union. That she is des-
tined soon to become largely and profta-
bly, engaged IN the manufacture of Wine,
is a current belief here, which | am at
once unable and disincined to controvert.
That California is richest of ali the
American States in Timber, as well as in
Minerals, | consider certain. though the
forests OF Oregon are doubtless stately
and vast. Even the Coast Range be-
tween this valley aud Santa Cruz ou the
southwest, is covered By magnificent Red
wood-some of the trees sixteen feet
through, aud fifty in circumference. La
Soil, cannot consider her equal to Hi
Dois, Iowa, Kansas, or Minnesots, though
the ready markets afforded by her Mines
to her farms probably render this one OF
the most inviting States to the enterpri.
sing, energetic hu-bandman. But it must
be considered that lot half the soil of Cal
ifornia can ever be deemed arabic; the
larger area being covered by mountains,
rayines, deserts, &c. La fact, when one.
fouith of the entire State shall have beer
piowed and reduced to tillage, | yud ge
that the residue mig ght better be left to
grow timber and grass. Steep. rock =
bill.sdes, on which no rain falls from
June to November, can neser be titled to
much profit.
This persistent Summer drouth is
not an unmixed evil. 1t is guaranty
against many insects. and against rust,
even in the heaviest grain. Grain and
Hay are got in at far less cost and in
much better average condition here than
they can be where the Summers are not
cloudless nor rainless. Weeds are far
less persistent and pestilent here than at
the East; while the air is so uniform y
dry and braeing, and the days so gener-
ally tempered by fresh breeze, that the
human frame maintains its elasticity in
spite Of severe and continued exertion. -
| was never before in region where SO
much coald be accomplished to the han
in Summer as just here.
And yet--and yet--my early prejudi.
ces in favor of refreshing shower occa,
sionally are not fully overcome. dis