| Show disastrous year r for FOB OR california although tife crops of the sacramento sacra men td valley look better than ever at this season ot the year we are satisfied that this will be bew bea a disastrous yean year for the thel state states taken a w hole hoie the ater water will be short for placer minin mining and many men will be thrown out out re reason isoji of this the seas beas season benson Is far enough advanced for toy he 16 to become perfectly apparent but little grain will bo prod south bouth of the bay and that and sheep will y the 11 eshou thousand f r we talked a very intelligent tell igent and reliable ge gentleman nilman the other day who had travelled through the san joaquin valley anid arid through some of the coast ast ci counties and hund be hb thinks that at last sheep will afe of star vailon down there this spring this is made all so much the worse woree by the fact that through a process dru drumming diming engaged in by the residents of the southern counties a great many poor people settled there this year and suc sue such sueh 11 a season leaves them penniless and in want there thre are some portions of t he the han ban coaum in that ba have vebe been en irrigated ri eld eid but in many I 1 this has ha s been so ly doneas done as tor tot drown out gut crop those who have been fortunate enough to get good irrigation ar al sil all right but these are so few as fes to td be hardly worth woith excepting from thet the general genera I 1 ruin nearly all portions ot of this state are subject to grolig t anait and it is the tho duty ot of farmers a to ak ux at rt least to keep their stock through h such seasons we have urged farmers hersto to put up straw to save saye I 1 it from one years end to another mothr straw well stacked will heep keep for a great greal many yean year and it adi t but little to put it up and aud in case of a failure it at nt once b becomes becomes very valuable suppose one of the large san joaquin farmers had been put tin ting tins ri up his straw stra w for the last four or five good seasons how much would it be warth now that be bd can pick lip up fine sheep for almost nothing if all the farmers of the san joaquin valley had saved their straw they could have saved all the stock of that section this season will vill our farmers this year commence thiap sun |
