Show fann fana life in california and at I 1 the east the tho conditions under which a successful agriculture can be carried on in california are so different from those existing in other states that farming here almost becomes another science every farmer who comes to this coast must perforce abandon many of the axioms upon which hellas hollas he has been accustomed to act he wiil will find himself practically in a new world the seasons and soil are dif dlf Terent different even the prevailing winds and the electrical condition of the atino atmosphere sphere are different it is for this reason that the thel most elaborate and excellent eastern and foreign treatises and publications upon agriculture 4 are to a great extent valueless here of course courso cour sethe the tho same general principles under lio tho the subject everywhere but butali all ali detailed instructions instruction instruct lon ion land and practical information would only tend to mislead a farmer in california instructions when to plow or reap or plant or prune cabbe can be of no use in a landbo land so diffie different rent the diffie difference rence in climate necessitate necessitates a thousand other difference differences sin in the style of living building clot ejot clothing hing and the mode of or doing business which it will take a strang strangers str angera angern era long while to understand at the east the farm house must be substantially erected with a largo large cellar beneath for the storage of the Wi winters liters supply of fruita fruits and vegetables A great groat woodpile measuring many cords must be provided and the tho barns sheds and stables for the protection of live stock make of themselves quite a village A large C pereen percentage tage of the annual hay bay grain an and d root crop must be stored up and fed out during the tedious and inclement winter the reverse of or all this is true in california the farm house need not riot be tightly built nor is a cellar absolutely necessary although quite convenient dhe the required woodpile is insignificant in comparison as fire is scarcely necessary except for culinary purposes the farms and sheds sheda required are small affairs aa as all kinds hinds of stools can live I 1 out of doors all winter even without any food except such as they can pick up for themselves it is however better to give them shelter and food but not much of either is required for their comfort A comparatively small ismall portion of the product of a farm is expended upon it so that most of the hay hazy 3 grain and root crop can be sent to t 0 market the dih diu arence of climate is remarkable there Is scarcely a da day y in our winters when it would be unpleasant to our dwellings with all tho the doors all ali and windows or when any kind of outdoor out door work could not bb carried on quite as well as in summer r flowers are in bloom and many kinds hinds of vegetables continue to grow all winter when the whole east is covered most deeply with snow our plows are running merrily wa we do not have to cut h hole hoie oles oies in the lee ice to water our cattle first because we have not tilo the ive io to cut and second because in our winter there is 13 water on all sides in abundance of course courso the treatment of all kinds hinds of vegetable growth trees shrubs vines and the like must differ here tl that at employed at the east and it requires long and patient observe to on the long hot Summer bummer hardens and crabs the earths surface and lulls the roots of most of our grasses so that wo we have no natural turf in our lawns and meadows the grasses must ba be renewed from the seed every year during such a lon ion long iong period whatever is cultivated I 1 whether fruit or flower requires a treatment quite different from that employed at the east so that a newcomer liew new comer has almost every thing to learn A person coming into our finest valleys in september or october when tile the whole earth even to the tho highest hilltops except along the margin of tho water courses ii dry as an oven and brown and sere as a de desert would bo be ready to say that the whole country was barren and worthless but let jet the amo tamo ame person arrive say from new england at christmas and the contrast from all he had ever een feen and the beauty of california would bo be so marvelous that he would almost distrust ilis lils his own OM senses and thiu think k he had suddenly entered a land laud of dreams the whole country is li hen then green as jask an emerald and vegetation on all hands assuming new life and vigor and beauty and this too at the very time of the year when eastern people are wearing furs or shiy shivering erin g over great fires and their whole landscape Is covered and made cheerless bythe bytho by the snow vo we cannot wonder that so many long to reach this coast every one tuat that comes and lives here for a while awhile learns to love iti it and would never willingly leave it to live elsewhere but the newcomer must be prepared nto to see strange contrasts with all ail his ahls fre pre experience and aud andt perhaps some that will not strike him favorably at the outset if ir he proposes to engage in any branch of or agriculture it will be his best policy to I 1 io I go o slow till he acquires a fair knowledge of tho peculiarities of the country its soil climate products and methods of cultivation A S F chronicle cino Chro hicle |