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Show CALIFORNIA'S BIO FARMS ARB ' BUOWLV DISAPPBARINO aaallar Feme are tleeoailaa Ihe Bale Whe.1 rrodaetloa of I'eclne Statee The Deparment of Agriculture haa laaued a report oa the general agricultural agricul-tural conditions In the Paclflo coeat region. It says although tha tendency for the past twenty-five years baa beea toward a gradual reduction of area of Individual farms and ranches, they are atlll of a site much larger than tha average farm In the Rest or even of the middle West, It . particularly true In California, ' Another distinctive feature, especial- ' ly In tho great valley areas of Call for- nla, Is the use of machinery of great 1 capacity, which means ao economy of 1 human labor, but often alao mesne a - I walee of grain. Every effort le made to f combine several operations Into one. Transportation of tha enormous quantity of Paclflo ooaat wheat haa been reduced lo a aclence. A large easing Is made by loading ships directly direct-ly from the cars, traius being rnn from the wheat flelde to tide water at a very few hours' notice. In Washington and Oregon, however, the wheat is run through ao elevator, where it la rccleancd aud mixed wllh other gradee of wheat to bring It to the required alandard grsde, after It le resacked aud loaded on tha veaaals or csre for final shipment. About il7,t50,uon, bushele of wheat are exported annually from the Paclflo coast, with a total value of about JO,-000,000. JO,-000,000. Of the 1,000,000 barrels of flour annuslly shipped from the Pact So cosst ports during Ihe past Un years. Dearly oue-balf la cleared at Haa Frao-elsco. Frao-elsco. The report says It has takea about 34,000,0110 bushels ef wheat te supply the foreign markets with Pa olflo coast wheul and flour. Of thla amount California porta furnished more than .0,000,000 bushels. . |
