. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. long run anyway. A2/ropos to this subject, we quote from the San Malm Gazette some in- teresting facts and suggestions : The meteorological records of the State prove that California has experienced seasons of drouth which have bc^n terrible in their results. They have occurred at long intervals of time, before as well as since the American occupation. They entailed no loss of hu- man life, so far as we are aware ; but vast herds of horses and cattle were lost.
. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. long run anyway. A2/ropos to this subject, we quote from the San Malm Gazette some in- teresting facts and suggestions : The meteorological records of the State prove that California has experienced seasons of drouth which have bc^n terrible in their results. They have occurred at long intervals of time, before as well as since the American occupation. They entailed no loss of hu- man life, so far as we are aware ; but vast herds of horses and cattle were lost. In some years the grass crop entirely failed, and thousands of cattle were killed for their hides and tallow, the carcasses being left on the plains for the vultures aad coyotes. Don Andreas Pico, an eminent native Cali- forniau living near Los Angeles, during vari- ous years of drouth prior to 1851, di-ove thou- sands of wild horses over cliifs a hundred feet high into the sea. In those years the crops totally failed for the want of rain, and the California raucheros were compelled to destroy their horses in order to save as much pasture as possible for their vast herds of cat- tle. But even this expedient often failed to save their stock of sheep and cattle. They perished by thousands for want of the life- giving water. Much suffering ensued among the people. This country was then sparsely settled. When its rising population approx- imates to the millions, as it surely will at no distant day, we can readily see that the occur- rence of one of the long drouths peculiar to California would be attended with disastrous results. It has sometimes happened that for one, and even two, years no rain has fallen in California. Suppose that such a thing should happen next year or in 1877 ; our wheat exportation would cease and agri- culture receive a blow from which it would take a long time to recover. All our great iu- terests would suffer a temporary paralysis, and millions would be l
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