THE DEVELOPMENT OF AGRICULTURE.

The Three Great Branches, Grass, Grain, and Fruit The Age of Grass Pre- American Farming Processes and Products Exhaustion of Soil Farming and Machinery Irrigation Artesian Wells Ripa rian Rights Droughts Floods Pests Climates and Soils Tem perature and Rainfalls Configurations as Affecting Agriculture 1 CEREALS AND OTHER PRODUCTS.

Leading Staples Wheat and Barley Oats and Corn Yield Effect of Irrigation Rice Conditions of Culture Quality Vegetables Cotton Flax -The Silkworm Excitement Effect of Legislation on Sericulture Fiasco in Tobacco Mustard Sugar 24 FRUIT-GROWING AND GRAPES.

Ceres and Pomona Italy Excelled Comparative Yield Fruit Season and Flavor Products and Pests Drying and Canning Shipping -Farm Orchards Apples Citrus Fruits The Orange Pears- Cost of Cultivation Scale Infliction Figs Almonds and Other Nuts The Olive Berries The Grape Wine-making Raisins INLAND AND OVERLAND TRAFFIC.

Coastwise Commerce In the Bay On the Sacramento Pioneer Steam boats Heads of Navigation California Steam Navigation Com pany Coast Lines Shipwrecks, Collisions, and Explosions Coa cand River Surveys Harbor Improvements Lighthouses Custom House Affairs Revenue Districts and Collectors Roads, Ferries, and Bridges Overland and Interior Postal Service The Express Business Stage Lines Pack-trains Telegraph Lines.