. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. California Agriculturist and Live Stock Jourkal. I have bought and improved two homes in California, but I cannot call them my own to- night. Thousands have shared the same fate, and the work of destruction goes "bravely ; Our sheriff told me the other day that he had just served seventy settlers on the Milpitas grant iu an ejectment suit which is another swindle. As I am not used to writing for papers, ex- cuse "style,"etc. With many rega
. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. California Agriculturist and Live Stock Jourkal. I have bought and improved two homes in California, but I cannot call them my own to- night. Thousands have shared the same fate, and the work of destruction goes "bravely ; Our sheriff told me the other day that he had just served seventy settlers on the Milpitas grant iu an ejectment suit which is another swindle. As I am not used to writing for papers, ex- cuse "style,"etc. With many regards, i'oura, J. C. Gaillabd. July 11th, 1875. Cultivation of Medicinal Plants In California. A gentleman who has paid a good deal of attention to the subject of medicinal plants and the study of medicine as well as of agri- cultue, and thinks it possible to produce such roots, barks, herbs, etc., in California, and who thinks that many of our immigrants might find profitable employment by starting into the business for themselves here, sends us the following hints upon the subject. He begiug by advising the cultivation of the olive tree, flax seed and castor beans for oil. Our readers are already pretty well informed upon the foregoing, and for several years quantities have been produced in California with suc- cess. The cinchona tree, which produces the Peruvian bark is next treated on. He says: As to the feasibility of raising in Cfalifornia the cinchona tree, which produces the Peru- vian bark, from which quinine is manufac- tured, there can be no question. Our climate is the exact counterpart of that iu which it grows in South America. Being under the equator, notwithstanding the elevation of sev- eral thousand feet above the level of the sea, the climate is exactly like our's—a perpetual spring. The English have tried the experi- ment of its transplantation on the lower benches of the Himalaya mountains in India with success, and the Dutch have introduced it into Sumatra
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