The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-08-11

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In 1880 10000 gallons of wine and
1900 gallons of brandy were made
The Italians nse il the same MS water.
Wine can be b uughl by the gallon from
them for two bits ur 20 cents. Stockton
has fine churches aud school bonses,
Services are held in fifteen churches
every Sabbath. rmre are many fine
residences. The owners seem to take
pride IN beaulit,ing their grounds.
This city has several toll r ads which
are kept sprinkled and arc fine drives.
We were invited ont TO one of the finest
W wheat aud stock ranches in the state.
ms ms IS ranch OF about 1000 acres:
On ~ mere are aDont 2OO0 thoroughbred
spanish sheep, also cattle, horses and
nogs. mere Is barn room enough to
she'er an Tue STOCK and 3OO Ions OF
nay "n'er runs through all the barns
ana sneds ~ pipes. The wafer is
pu hpeu' pom by WIND aud horse power
mo TANKS. Every foot OF this rancho
Gnu DE waered, so The crops are sure.
dhere are OAK trees rom Tour TO ten
Iee' III u,ameter. Ihcy are never cut
Ior WOOD unless III the way. The limbs
are cut ou' we were shown stump.
Ihs trec'cut from II made twenty-six
cords OF wood; also other oaks that
were CANNED TO nave from twenty TO
twenty-five cords OF wood: From the
ilmos moss several feet III length is
hanging. On this ranch there are acres
OF lruit' we mad our NIL OF iigs. Two
crops are raised each year. out into
Ime iieiu we went TO see thrashipg done.
Inc thresning Is done by steam, using
straw ior iuei. Ii takes sixteen men to
run one tiiresher. The owner of the
machine nires his own help. Most OF
days work ..of threshing wheei is r.cr,
fro,n * a. oooo "t t"h; " parlcy
in two bnshaI 80 soa Ju'''e -, =. Is Pus
and left there I'm If Ia iakon 70 ,pp,r r,v
with no cover;na exoon 49, ,h " hn ,arnu,s
There is M rain from p Nav n1 :, ' Move
her. PIowino ia dana viii aonn D,on
viii o;abt r. ? wo,vo ,n',os 5r;nsp ,U" III
one line Tho wheat Is nut into VII" ,ho
orounJ from Saniemhor 10 ion LAM no
Wheat ,hat ia nnt IN fret ia in 10
ground months before !, snron,s All, All
Grasses como from tho seed Tbo ,onn
drv montbs dry oil tha uroeses ond ron,s
mn Stock does 90 we'll on tho Grass roso
after II il dried ne hefora Thoro 6a;n~
no dews mr. rains The ;n;.es arc ali Jr;n5
in The grass Tho aronnd 10 FIJI or
seed. Eyerytbinp ooes to show that
these valleys ore ,nede land and onoo
a lake. TIe earth that comes ont of
wells iar below the surface II mi
nndor a olass and tent moist w;I, n q
few DAYS be covered with snrouts
stockton ia snnnlied with waller bv on
arfesian we'll The we'll ia over iOOO
feet deem. IL throws. Inv actnai fest.
36O. 600 Gallons every iwentv-fonr bonrs'
When ,Sa~ @n. AN ohort oon "V "..s,
they went through log two feet in
strong as when the we'll was first
sunk, twenty years ago. We visited
the grain warehouses, made of brick,
fire proof, one story high. All grain
comes in sacks, piled up in tiers. From
the house they are loaded onto the boats
and sent to the bay, where they are put
direct on to foreign vessels, or left in
the warehouses for shipment. From
the thresher to foreign ports the wheat
in the same sack. Wheat is taken in
by the hundred or GENITAL, not by the
bushel. 1t is soft wheat. On the black
land il averages about thirty bushels to
the acre. The tide at this point rises
about two feet, at Sacramento not quite
as much. From Stockton stages run to
the big trees of Calaveras and the
Yosemite Valley.
suppose that there is no place in
America that SO much has been written
about as the big trees and the Valley.
unless it be Niagara Falls. I win
merely give a few 1igures showing The
size 81 t6e L9gHost, tro9e The nncs,o,ic
There are so acres in The grove and IO9
trees. % AVERAGE " feet in circnn, fer.
ence TIL, areve balance 70 Tho ata,o
Before The sfate had control ono Of thc