*** Source: Thompson, Robert A., Historical and descriptive sketch of Sonoma County, California. Philadelphia: L.H. Everts & Co., 1877, 122 pgs. Notice: This data is donated to the Public Domain by TAG, 2004, and may be copied freely by anyone to anywhere. *** ---page 26--- AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS, 1876. Land enclosed--acres, 310,520; land cultivated--acres, 195,575. Wheat-- acres 45,000, bushels 800,000; barley--acres 21,213, bushels 424,201; oats-- acres 19, 597, bushels 587,410; rye--acres 225, bushels 4,500; corn--acres 37,000, bushels 740,000; beans--acres 125, bushels 2,500; potatoes--acres 2,500, tons 6,000; sweet potatoes--acres 120, tons 3,000; hay--acres 43,744, tons 50,000; hops--acres 150, pounds 15,000. DAIRY PRODUCTS AND WOOL. Butter, pounds..................2,125,000 Cheese, pounds....................250,000 Wool, pounds......................750,000 FRUIT TREES. Bearing lemon trees, 372; oranges, 1,994; olive trees, 227; apple trees, 112,376; pear trees, 24,722; peach trees, 57,813; plum trees, 17,467; cherry trees, 12,310; nectarine trees, 1,510; quince trees, 2,100; apricot trees, 1,725; fig trees 1,000; almond trees, 9,845; walnut--English, 5,300; walnut--black, 800; prune trees, 725; mulberry trees, 625. THE WINE PRODUCT OF SONOMA COUNTY. Wine-making is one of the leading industries of Sonoma county. Sonoma Valley is almost wholly devoted to grape-culture; on an average 680 vines are planted to the acre; the yield in grapes is from 10 to 30 pounds to the vine. It takes 14 pounds of grapes to make a gallon of wine. The system of "short pruning" is practised; the vines are cut back to the stump every year, and the finest clusters of grapes often rest on the ground. We give herewith a tabulated statement of the wine and brandy manufactured in the valley of So- noma last year, with the names of the wine-growers, and estimates for the rest of the county. A law was passed by Congress last session which permits producers to store their brandy in bonded warehouses and pay the internal revenue duty of sev- enty cents per gallon when the brandy is sold or withdrawn for consumption. This will largely increase the production. WINE AND BRANDY MADE IN SONOMA VALLEY FROM THE VINTAGE OF 1876, AND BRANDY THAT WILL BE MADE NEXT YEAR UNDER THE NEW BONDED WAREHOUSE LAW. [The figures indicate gallons] Wine. Brandy. Brandy under new law. Goess, Geo. A ......... 1,500 ....... ....... Hooper, Geo. F.......... 20,000 200 500 Wegener, Julius......... 3,000 20 100 Sonoma Wine & Brandy Co. 160,000 3,500 8,000 Lamotte, Alfred V....... 30,000 ....... 500 Gibson, John............ 3,000 ....... ....... *** end ***