Identifier: californiacultur02sanf (find matches)
Title: The California culturist
Year: 1858 (1850s)
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Subjects: Agriculture Agriculture
Publisher: San Francisco : Towne & Bacon
Contributing Library: California State Library
Digitizing Sponsor: California State Library Califa/LSTA Grant

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ing 374 Trees Overshadowing Gardens 412 Terracing 417 The Victoria Bridge 458 The Lime Light 516 The Dairy 534 The Horses We Want 537 Thyme as Food for Bees 544 Tule Lands of California 556 The Culturist and Our Associate 568 The Late Rains 574 The Scientific Press 575 Vineyard, how Planted 23, 127 Vandervere Apple 234 Vineyard Planting 258 Vine, mode of Grafting 355 Vine Pruning 360 Vinegar in Twenty-Four Hours. 372 Vineyard Culture 447 Vine, Summer Pruning of 552 Vegetation in Ceylon 574 •w Will California Apples Keep 15 Winter Apples 18 Winter in New England 46 Water Melon Molasses 120 Wheeler & Wilsons Sewing Machine 136 Wheat-Sowing, Conditions of Soil 201 Water Wheels. , , 223 Woodwards Bee Hive 231 Wheat, White Mediterranean 255 Wheat, Ups and Downs of 268 Wheel Barrow, New French 319 Wheat, Cleaning the Seed 361 What Cheer House, Free Library 382 Where the Cold Comes From 458 Wheat, Early Harvesting of 508 Whitewash 544 Wines, Domestic 547 What a Fall in Strawberries 575
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Ⓜ️ ATZ- T> XT TL E . THE ULY, 18 5 9 THE FORAGE OF THE PACIFIC. JO one can deny that, however humbling it may be to our States pride in regardto agricultural resources, the question as to how her future herds of cattle andhorses are to be supported, is becoming one of grave import. The past winter andspring will be long remembered, by many herdsmen, as the year of abundant rains,and yet an extreme scarcity of early green forage for their stock. We can point toa single cause for this, in the coldness of the season; but are we not liable to be vis-ited, from year to year, with the same climatic influences that have, during the pastwinter in very many localities, nearly decimated our stock ? It is well known thatvery many of our valleys herdsmen are looking out and securing every mountainmeadow, along the coast range and among the ridges of the Sierra Nevada, as sum-mer and autumn feeding grounds for their stocks of cattle, and that those meadows areeverywhere becoming of great intricaliforniacultur02sanf

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