Excerpt from The Story of Stanislaus

What is this Stanislaus County, of which we are hearing so much, and yet in a vague and contradictory way?" asks the man from Missouri. That is the question which we shall try to answer in this little book, as plainly and frankly as possible, and leaving much unsaid. Stanislaus County is a fruit land; - witness her 250,000 orchard trees, (1910). It is a vine-land, as testified by her two million vines. The abundant grain crops of this present year, 1914, upwards of two million sacks, show that Stanislaus is equal to any of the counties of the Mississippi Valley as a grain country. A million tons of hay, dotting the landscape with stacks as big as Pennsylvania barns, demonstrate her capacity for hay production, and her thirty thousand or more dairy cows, mostly grades and thoroughbreds, feeding on a hundred thousand acres of alfalfa, show that Stanislaus must be a great dairy country.

A Great Dairy Country Dairying is, probably, in a greater degree than any other branch of husbandry, the basis of agricultural prosperity, and in a wider sense, the foundation of the general welfare. Dairying improves the land, increases crops of all kinds, multiplies population of the most industrious and thrifty class, piles up bank accounts, fosters commercial business and encourages improved transportation, invites intelligent white settlement, and in every way tends to the building up and development of the community.

We will show our inquiring friends in distant states that Stanislaus County is pre-eminently a great dairy country, and while also a region of wonderfully varied and diversified agriculture, in grain, fruits and vegetables, and in live stock of all kinds, it is, above all things else, a dairy land which, with the aid of her great public irrigation systems (which make this county unique in California) her fertile soil and her great number of small farmers from the east, north and south, has attained the position of the leading dairy county on the Pacific Coast, a position which all conditions indicate will be permanent.

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