The record-union., 1897-07-06


means Insignificant. This product be-
longs with the orchard, and while the
bee is extracting nectar from the bios
SONS, it is pollenizing them and max
ing the fruitage more certain. l know
of one ranch firm in Siskiyou County.
engaged in cattle feeding from alfalfa,
that realizes about $4,000 annually
from bees that feed upon the bloom of
the plant. In my own orchard l keep
from thirty to forty stands of bees,
and so might hundreds who do not.
Among our forage plants, alfalfa is
chief, and a most valuable plant; it is
yielding from five to ten tons per an
mum per acre. 1t requires irrigation
as we have seen, furnish the water.
Our hop fields yield from 10000 to
10000 bales per annum.
Our soil and climate are adapted to
the growth of valuable fibrous plants,
Hemp and fax and ramie have estab-
lished their value here and their
adaptibility to our soil and climate.
It is demonstrated that we can
grow leaf tobacco for cigars more
nearly equal in aroma to the Cuban
article TIM has been produced else
where in this country
Satisfactory experiments have been
made with canaigre, from which tannin
is extracted, and we find the variety of
Australia waffle, or acacia, from
which tannin is taken, is readily grown
here.
The dairy interests are found along
the coast and in the mountain val
leys, and are quite extensive
Our fruit canning industry gives en-
ployment to many thousands of peo-
ple-chiefiy women and children. In
1894 the shipments out of the State
exceeded 5000 carloads of ten tons
each.
The average annual product of our
California coast fisheries is about So
100000, and the annual whaling catch
of the San Francisco fleet is not far
from S1,000,000. Many varieties of
food fishes from Eastern waters have
been successfully planted in our riv-
ers, and we can now buy shad for less
price and for more months in the
year than they can be obtained in
Eastern markets. Eastern oysters
have been transplanted here, and are
promising to become acclimated and
Shipbuilding must soon take on large
proportions here. The shipbuilding
yard of the Union Iron Works has
added much to the fame and wealth
of California.
Q.-Can you give US some idea of the
growth of agriculture in California
during the decade of 1SS0-1S90, as
shown by the census, and as COM
pared with other States, and it's rela-
tive rank?
Ayes; have had occasion to do
this before, and have some interesting
figures at hand L will arrange them
in tabular form, and you can study
them at your leisure:
FARM STATISTICS.
Increase in the number OF farms, in Cal
ifornia AZ per cent; in the United States,
Il per cent.
Increase in farm acreage, in California,
29 per cent; in the United States, 10 per
cent.
Increase in value of lands, fences and
buildings on farms, in California 166 per
cent; in the United States, 80 per cent.
Increase in value of property, in Cali
fornia, SS per cent. in the United States,
40 per cent
Increase in value per capita in Cali
fornia, 30 per cent; in the United States,
- per cent.
Increase in value of farm implements, in
California, "A per cent; in the United
States, % per cent.
Increase in value of live stock, in Cali
fornia, 20 per cent; in the United States, 46
per cent.
Rank in total wealth-Sixth.
Rank in ti6n-Twenty-second
Rank in value of live stock-Fourteenth
Rank in number of sheep on ranches
First.
Rank in number of horses on farms
Ninth.
Rank in value of farm products-Tenth
Rank in quantity OF wheat grown-Third
Increase in wheat produced, in Cali
fornia, Al per cent. decade; in United
States, l per cent
OF the entire wheat crop of the United
States, 9 per cent (1S90)
OF total value Of wheat exports, 25 per
cent n re hemainlng tataI States; 70 per Gent
States, p per cent GSs0).
Rank in quantity of hay of the United
States-Ninth QS9D.
Rank in quantity of hops of the United
Rank in quantity of wine of the United
States-First, or per cent. of country's
output.
Rank in dairy products-Fifth.
Rank in wool-F'irst and second. never
below second.
Farm products, increase, 46 per cent.
Cdecade); IL per cent. United States.
increase in manufactures, "a per cent
tdecade); "A per cent. United States
To resume my running description:
Look out upon this noble bay of San
Francisco, with an area of 45O square
miles, and observe how limitless is its
anchorage for the largest craft that
floats. See that picturesque opening
towards the ocean, known as the Gold
en- Gate by every mariner since its
discovery by Portala, and mark how
ample and safe gateway it is to the
largest and most beautiful harbor in
the world, and, withal, do not fail to
notice how easily defended against an
enemy is this refuge of safety for the
worlds shipping. This bay and its en-
trance We're delivered to mankind in SO
perfect a condition that our Govern
ment has expended upon it only about
SloO,UOU. Look again at the map, and
observe this long stretch of seacoast,
and the numerous bays, inlets, road
steads, harbors, estuaries and other
means of utilizing the great waterway
of the Pacific. Stretch a line due east
across the continent to the Atlantic,
from Del Norte County, and another
from San Diego, and notice the States
inclosed between the parallels on the
Atlantic an-Massachusetts, Rhode
Island, New York, New Jersey, Della
ware, Maryland, Virginia, North Caro-
lima, South Carolina. Between the
parallels on the Pacific lies California
alone, the mistress of this great stretch
of commercial sea coast. Take a
steamer and go with me up the Sacra-
mento River, over 300 miles by river,
to the town of Red Bluff, the present
head of navigation, you will have
passed through an empire tributary to