Show california S BIG FARMS ARE SLOWLY disappearing smaller farma are the kale wheat production of state the De of agriculture baa issued a report on the general tural condit one in the pacific coast region it says although the tendency for the past t venty five years has been toward a gradual reduction of area of individual farms and lanches they are still of a size much larger than the average farm in the east or even of the middle west it la particularly true in california another distinctive feature especial ly in the reat valley areas of califor nia is the use of machinery of great capacity which means an economy of human labor but often also means a batse of grain every effort is made to combine several operations into one transportation of the enormous quantity of coast wheat has been reduced to a sc ence A large saving is made by loading sh pa direct ly from the cars trains being run from the wheat fields to tide water at a very few hours notice in wash agton and oregon however the wheat is run through an elevator where it is re cleaned and mixed with other grades of wheat to bring it to the required standard grade after it is re sacked an 1 loaded on the vessels or cars for final shipment about 27 bushe s of wheat are exported annually from the 1 acislo coast with a total value of about 0 of the 2 barrels of flour annually shipped from the pacific coast ports during the past ten years nearly one 1 alf is cleared at san cisco the report says it has taken about 36 bushels et wheat to supply the fore ga markets with pacific coast wl eat and flour of thi amo int california ports furnished more than 20 bushels |