The California culturist . edingly cold and frosty, still the figures inthe table show how much above the average the thermometer has ranged, and how many more clear,sunny days than usual have prevailed. In fact, considerable verdure is already to be seen in thesurrounding plains, with other indications of an early spring. A prevalence of northwardly winds,however, would soon give a check to such precocious vegetation. The earliest spring we find onour record was 1855. In that year the butter-cup was in profuse blossom on the first of February,and on the twentieth the peach tree was in flower.
The California culturist . edingly cold and frosty, still the figures inthe table show how much above the average the thermometer has ranged, and how many more clear,sunny days than usual have prevailed. In fact, considerable verdure is already to be seen in thesurrounding plains, with other indications of an early spring. A prevalence of northwardly winds,however, would soon give a check to such precocious vegetation. The earliest spring we find onour record was 1855. In that year the butter-cup was in profuse blossom on the first of February,and on the twentieth the peach tree was in flower. The prospect of abundant rains, with whichthe present season opened, is not as favorable as it was at first regarded; as, however, the rain com-menced earlier than usual, we may regard the late dry weather as constituting the period of inter-regnum, which generally prevails in February, between the early and the latter rains. The highestpoint to which the river has reached was eleven feet above zero on the eighth WM. BANHAMS PATENT EXCELSIOR QUARTZ GRINDER,PULVERIZER AND AMALGAMATOR. THE CALIFORNIA CULTURIST. APEIL, 1860 DETERIOBATION OF BLOODED STOCK. WITHIN the last two years, a very great expense has been incurred by manyof the best stock-growers in California, in the introduction of high bloodedanimals of the choicest breeds, including horses, cattle and sheep. These importationshave generally been well selected, and success has, is almost every instance, attendedtheir transportation hither; so that now there is no want of genuine blood fromwhich to breed direct full bloods, or cross upon the native herds. It is the opinionof some of our most observant and careful breeders, that no country in the worldpresents a better field for the breeding of high blooded animals than California; andthey base their belief on the general supposition that a mild and equitable climate,free from the extremes of heat or cold, and particularly the latter, cannot but provehighly favor
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