The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1885-03-19
PACIFIC COAST AGRICULTURE.

splendidly.
Bees are doing we'll in San Diego coun-
ty, and the prospect is good for a large
honey yield.
Grain is said to be five or six inches
high in portions of the willamette Valley,
Oregon.
Santa Barbara sheep men say they will
have the fattest sheep and best wool crop
this Spring they have had for many years.
Calitornia's walnut crop last year was
about 90 per cent, greater than in 1888.
This years crop is expected to exceed
that of 1884.
a number Of new clearings have been
made in the vicinity of Colfax within the
past few months which are to be planted
in grape vines.
Flowing is progressing slowly in the
upper coast regions on account OF the wet
ground, the heavy rains having saturat-
ed it to an unusual depth.
The Chico Enterprise says that most
of the farmers in that vicinity have con-
Guided to hold their wheat and pay taxes
rather than sell at present prices.
The Catholic church at Benicia had a
torty-acre tract plowed and sowed by a
ploWing bee. Forty five teams were en-
gagged in the work which took two days.
There is a disease among the horses
near Phiiomath, Or, that has proven IA
many cases much like a distemper
Farmers have found cut that dynamite
is good thing to remove stumps with,
and it is rapidly growing in favor-large
quantities now icing used for that pur-
pose.
Inquiry is being made for grape lands
on the Nevada county side of Bear river,
as it has been found that the land is as
well adapted tor that purpose as about
ColfaX.
The sale of farming implements has
largely increased in Grass Valley in the
last two years, and the hardware mer-
chants say that the demand is increasing
all the time.
The Washington Territory potato crop
last season bids fair TO prove more re-
muneratiye than wheat. Large Quanti-
ties Of potatoes are being shipped to Cal
iiorna.
Almond trees generally, and peach
trees in warm and favored localities in
Sonoma county, are now in bloom, and it
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Tie vale of Tempe or Of Cashmere will
lose their splendors compared with the
valley through which rolls the sacra-
mento.
vt $50 q ton for grapes, vine costs ;
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county, "IIu l"thIN SIEVE ldllllileS nave
"'itd''N Setlieo ana mace MONIES tnere.
: a'pdv !l,Ie painter lhe largest III we |
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s'lI ''''u ''"s S("lPe'' Moih tIll nloIe ram
nuns re 'lil MS SONS nave NO" between
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peeil "i'"Ne" 10 s'ahM az" leIhaenV lol
tiSiil VI ten ediS' lney retained per
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"'le Juicy ana me 'dSle rs eAce'iehl' /
peIMaPS' Us the gay lhGy were picked.
ne itd'liLS Journals ol oregon ana
" aslih9loh ltililQEy are advocating the .
lntI"''urlioli ol tlir oeet sugar INDUSTRY III
ha aLnnir,hlv ada,tad IN the .ucca.sfnl
culture OF lhe sugar beet inns may
paInna3 C,an,t+o WV '''7''' i'''l'otois
4 Colusa inventor has obtained a "a
tent To n ..rDm hinpd TRAVELLING steam an