Birds and ants are fond of the fruit; and in one place I was told the birds took almost the whole of the first crop.

There are many varieties of the fig grown in this State, but the White Smyrna is, I believe, thought to be the best for market.

There are no large plantations of this tree in the State, but it is found on almost every farm and country place, and is a very wholesome fruit when eaten green.
When the farmers of the Sacramento Valley become tired of sowing wheat, and when the land comes into the hands of small farmers, as it is now doing to some extent, it will be discovered that fruit-trees are surer and more profitable than grain.

A considerable emigration is now coming into California; and I advise every one who goes there to farm to lose no time before planting an orchard.

Trees grow very rapidly, and it will be many years before such fruits as the cherry, plum, apricot, or the raisin-grape are too abundant to yield to their owners exceptionally large profits.
[Illustration: SHIPPING LUMBER, MENDOCINO COUNTY.].