Excerpt from Report of the Board of Agriculture to the California State Agricultural Society at the Annual Meeting, January 26, 1865: With a Synopsis of the Proceedings of the Annual Meeting, and a Meeting of the Board Why should not the route from the various emigrating ports of the Old World to San Francisco, by way of Panama, become the line of attraction and travel to those who are seeking an asylum and a home in America? Bring this about, and our march is onward, our destiny certain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.