Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-01-20
COAST AND STATE.

Star st. Helena pays her iremen's
poll-tax, and no grateful town can do less.
The Grand Jury of Washoe county,
New, in their report submitted last Tues
day, declare that they are unable "to
find indictments for the selling or furnish
ing of intoxicating liquors to Indians" to
that drunken Indians, upon their arrest,
be confined closely upon low diet until
they state where they obtained their
drink, and strenuous effort be made to OBJ
tain convictions through their testimony"
The Petaluma people will spend several
thousand dollars this and next month i'm.
proving and laying out the tract recently
purchased for their new agricultural park.
The pavilion is to be an improvement upon
the old one. 1t is to be larger, and will he
epcircled in the interior with gallery that
will make it much more convenient. The
grand stand will be built upon an improved
plan, and is to seat 1900 persons. They
expect to have the new grounds ready in
time for the next fair.
George Dinsdale, one of the large farm.
ers who lives northwest of Woodland, says
the wild ducks and geese are making
their annual onslaught on the young grain
in his neighborhood. In many instances
the inroads made upon the grain fields by
these troublesome fowls have become SO
annoying that it has become necessary to
employ herders to keep them away, the
old "scare- plan of driving them off
having become too thin deception for the
modern goose or duck.
Notwithstanding the heavy and cold
north winds of the past week. we cannot
but regard the crop prospect of Colusa
county as favorable twill take but little
more rain, at the right time, to make us
big crops. There was a very large area
summer fallowed, and this has been put in
in unusually good order. The lands that
were overfowed last year and planted this,
will make sure crops if we have an extra
dry spring. AS will be seen by another
item, the first half of January has not
given us much rain for some years back
[Colusa Sun.
c. W. Thompson, from the live oak and
sage brush lands near Ripon, reports the
Young grain in that section fourishing,
where the ground was broken deep. His
fallow land was plowed nine inches deep
and the young grain on it looks well and
can stand several days of dry weather with.
out injury. His winter sown grain he
thinks is safe for a good crop, with very
small amount of rain yet, as he plowed
the land deep, using only single plow,
and the moisture has been retained.
The only fault he finds with the
weather is its coldness. The threatened
drought does not scare him much, or his
neighbors who break their land deep. But
those who plowed in the usual style, from
three to four inches deep, are becoming
alarmed at the continued cold and dry
weather.
So far we have only had about two
inches of rain in this vicinity this season,
and many of our farmers are feeling nerv.
GUS over the prospects. An old resident.
who has farmed in this county for nearly
thirty years, met us the other day, aud his
cheerful words gave US considerable assur-
ance. He said he did not expect a heavy
rainfall, but believed that we would have
enough. He is going right along seeding,
and says he will finish in a day or two. He
said that two more inches of rain at the
proper time would be sufficient. Nothing
is suffering for rain at the present time.
One inch during the next thirty days would
bring things around all rAght; and then the
usual spring showers would make crop.
Saws he: Summer. fallowed land would
make crop without any rain, except late
showers" The fact is, as the best informed
say, there is no criterion to go by in ludg-
ing as to what will happen. There has
been no season in twenty years ike this
one so far. II may be preparing for
flood, OF it may be preparing for total
dry-out. 1t is probably best TO go right
along just as though we had guarantee
that the rains would come 10 iDstalments
to order. Modesto Herald, January l2sh.