CALIFORNIA CROP PROSPECTS FOR 1873.

Evening Star, Issue 3274, 18 August 1873, Page 3

CALIFORNIA CROP PROSPECTS FOR 1873.

The following report on the prospects of the wheat crop in California this year has been received from the United States Department of Agriculture at Washington : —“ The following facts and prognostications are gathered from a communication of a correspondent of this Department in Gonoma county. Rains sufficient to fit the ground for ploughing and putting in grain, fell early in November. The weather was delightful till past the middle of December ; but about the time of the winter solstice abundant rain fell, amounting for the season to 9 55-100 inches. Through January the weather was clear, and warm, and the farmer improved it to the utmost. The breadth of the grain sown in the State is probably larger than ever before. That sown early, and all that sown by harvesting of last year, called ‘ volunteer crops,’ looks very fine, standing from three to eight inches high, and covering the ground well. The early rains reached all the valleys in the State, and the rains have been equally extensive, and have Men to an average depth of two and a-half inches. The maturing of the great body of crops seems to be already ensured, even though there should be no further rains. Grass is well up, pastures are fine, and cattle and sheep are doing well. The prospect now is that the agricultural products of California for the coming season will be larger than ever before. The wheat crop alone promises to reach 30,000,000 bushels.”