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WHEAT 



CHAPTER X 

 WHEAT ON THE PACIFIC COAST 



Washington is the leading wheat producing 

 state of the Pacific slope. Up to 1900 California 

 exceeded Washington in wheat production. The 

 total crop in 1900 was 28,543,628 bushels for 

 California and 25,096,661 bushels for Washington. 

 In 1912, Washington produced 53,414,000 bushels 

 and California only 6,290,000 bushels. The 

 exhaustion of California's wheat lands and the 

 development of agriculture along more profitable 

 lines than grain farming is given as the reason for 

 this remarkable falling off in wheat production. 



The present relation of the acreage, for both 

 spring and winter wheat, the average yields per 

 acre, and total production in the four wheat pro- 

 ducing states of the Pacific coast from 1910 to 

 1912 are given in the following table: 



TABLE X 



