Show Large Cotton Crops Craps Now Raised in California Grow Long Staple Variety in San Joaquin Valley Fresno C Just Calif-Just Calif Just Just as rich Imperial Im- Im Imperial Im Imperial valley was discovered with the development of Irrigation so is the extensive San Joaquin valley ot of California becoming the garden spot or of the Ur West with an abundance of new crops and lots of water Three crops cotton crops cotton flax and su sugar sugar gar beets are beets are currently being boomed in the valley already known for its rich harvest of grapes peaches figs plums and citrus fruits Long Staple Variety Cotton planting has Increased so rapIdly in recent years that there are arc hardly enough ginning facilities to take tako care of the bumper crops Four years ago the total acreage devoted to this crop in the valley twenty and twenty one bushels to the acre which gives a large amount of linseed oil for paints ink and linoleum Planting will be doubled or tripled next year Sugar Beets neets Thrive Sugar beets grow so well here that large sugar Interests are spon spon- sponsorIng spon- spon sponsoring sponsoring heavy planting of beets The Industry has lias blossomed from practically practically practically no planting two years ago to toI more than 12 acres this year The west side plains particularly In Inbe inthe Inthe the be area ot of o CoalInga have proved ideal for tor beets This new producing area is one reason why national acreage has Jumped to an extent where here some of ot the beets can be used for seed Formerly all aU seed was Imported from central EuropeAn EuropeAn Europe EuropeAn An all year diversification of crops and ability to use equipment and la- la labor labor la labor bor nearly the year round is bring bringIng bringing bringing Ing prosperity to the San Joaquin valley In addition to the planting of cotton flax lax and sugar beets to total total tal on other crops this year are for lor grapes 69 for peaches 50 for tor citrus 35 for figs fles 20 tor for apricots and 8 0 for plums was acres This figure jumped to in 1935 last year and an all aU time high of bOO acres this talL The chief value of California cot cotton cotton cotton ton is its extraordinary whiteness and long staple The national aver aver- average average average age length of the staple Is seven eighths of ot an Inch while cotton grown here averages one and three thirty seconds of an inch Only a limited amount of ot Mississippi 1 delta cotton c exceeds It In length Virgin soil that has been turned over to cotton is producing heavy yields ields Western cotton produces an average of pounds to the acre I while the national average is only pounds This tremendous yield will bring more than 40 to cotton growers of the valley this year most of which will be ex- ex expended expended ex expended In tn n wages taxes and new planting Vast plains plain that formerly were ware barren deserts are being plowed up with giant tractors Deep water wells provide abundant irrigation for the fertile SOIL This has pro pro- produced produced produced not only the Dig olg Increase in cotton but a new development in flax ax In tv two 0 short years Only a few experimental patches ot of flax were here In 1935 1 35 chiefly on the v west est side of the valley More than 8 1000 acres were ere planted in Fresno county alone this sear ear and growers find tend It more profitable than grain or v wheat heat Flax yields fields between |