. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. NOTES OF TRAVEL. BY MBS. C. F. YOUNG, M. D. '^VV'HIS sixteenth day of November, in Con- tra Costa county, the hills are delicately % tinged with the green of Spring grasses. ' The summer-fallowed ground contrasts finely with tints of color that are at this hour reflected on the clouds—not in pink, or blue, or amber, but a combination of all, by degrees softly shading down to the sky line of a rosy sunset, and purple mists suggestive of trojiical lands not far aw
. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. NOTES OF TRAVEL. BY MBS. C. F. YOUNG, M. D. '^VV'HIS sixteenth day of November, in Con- tra Costa county, the hills are delicately % tinged with the green of Spring grasses. ' The summer-fallowed ground contrasts finely with tints of color that are at this hour reflected on the clouds—not in pink, or blue, or amber, but a combination of all, by degrees softly shading down to the sky line of a rosy sunset, and purple mists suggestive of trojiical lands not far away. Indeed, within ten miles, to-day, one can find the ORANGE, lemon AND BANANNA growing in the open air. A profusion of flowers that, east of the Eocky Mountains, would be found only iu the conservatories of the wealthy, or the hot-houses of professional gardeners, bud and bloom on the porches and by the garden walks of this workingman's home, receiving only the modicum of care given by children and a feeble woman. Mea- dow larks have filled the whole day, since earliest dawn, with music. A pair of them are now gathering supper under a rose tree within twenty feet of our open window. Yesterday we passed over thirty miles of country roads. We saw many fields of early sown summer-fallowed and volunteer wheat evenly seeded and growing finely. People were sowing grain, others looking after the squirrels, many others rushing ahead with the plowing—gang plows, two, four, and six- horse. Query: Why cannot women and girls manage ^ang plows, and put in grain, thus learning how to enter into the care and daily hopes of the farmer, as well as the profits of the crop? One of the prettiest fields of oats we have ever seen was put in by a fourteen- year-old girl —plowing, seeding, reaping, and taking care of the,team also. A sulky plow and improved machinery, and hearty encour- agement, were hers. She could make bread snd sew nicely; sing and play sacred music. Did it hurt her to know
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