The California culturist . ?^v. EASTER BEURRE THE CALIFORNIA CULTTJRIST. FEBEUAEY, 1860 STRAW FOR FODDER. WE believe there is not a state in the Union in which there is a more recklesswaste of the straw of the grainfield than in California. Thousands of tunsof the cleanest, brightest straw ever grown in any country, are annually consumedby fire, that might with a far better economy be consumed by the stock of the great bane of our more southern states agriculture—one that has impoverishedits millions of acres, is a system of cropping with grains, with little or no admixtureof stock hu
The California culturist . ?^v. EASTER BEURRE THE CALIFORNIA CULTTJRIST. FEBEUAEY, 1860 STRAW FOR FODDER. WE believe there is not a state in the Union in which there is a more recklesswaste of the straw of the grainfield than in California. Thousands of tunsof the cleanest, brightest straw ever grown in any country, are annually consumedby fire, that might with a far better economy be consumed by the stock of the great bane of our more southern states agriculture—one that has impoverishedits millions of acres, is a system of cropping with grains, with little or no admixtureof stock husbandry. A system that, whilst it abstracts from the soil the constituentsof a vegetable production in a rapid degree, gives little or no return for the constantdrain made upon it. The attention of southern culturists has recently been engagedupon this important feature of their agriculture, and its results bid fair to revolution-ize their entire system. The main feature upon which they ground their improvements, consists in
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