Lambing takes place here in February, and they shear in April.

The grazing lands abound in wild oats, very nutritious, but apt to run out where the pastures are overstocked.

Alfilleria is not found so far north as this; alfalfa has been sown all over the valley in proper places, and does well.

They cut it three times in the year, and turn stock in on it after the last cutting; and all who grow it speak well of it.
Red Bluff is one of the oldest towns in the valley; it stands at the head of navigation on the Sacramento, and was, therefore, a place of importance before the railroad was built.

The river here is narrow and shoal, and it is crossed by one of those ferries common where the rapid current, pushing against the ferry-boat, drives it across the stream, a wire cable preventing it from floating down stream.