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ing three tons to the acre, which always commands a good 

 price m home market. 



Thorough cultivation is the rule. The cost of preparing 

 and seeding the ground averaging three dollars, and harvest- 

 ing about as much more. 



Hay produced in this county is of an unusual good 

 quality. About a ton to the acre is the average, although the 

 yield in many places is enormous. 



Wild oats and wheat are usually sown together, and the 

 crop harvested just before it turns. It lies in windrows until 

 cured, then bunched, and later on stacked in five and ten 

 ton stacks. Loose hay, of this kind, sells for $8.00 to $15.00 

 per ton. When baled, it brings from $12.00 to $18.00 per ton. 



B EBT SUGAR 



A new, most important and promising industry in Te- 

 hama County is the raising of sugar beets. It is shown that 

 beets grown on our lands contain a higher percentage of 

 sugar than those of any other section. During the season 

 of 1901 beets were harvested near Tehama that contained 

 the extraordinary amount of 25 per cent, in sugar. This is 

 an industry that bids fair to play an important part in our 

 agricultural history for the following reasons : Earlier ma- 

 turity of the beets ; earlier opening on the sugar making 



FRUIT PACKING HOLSE OF PORTER BROS. 

 RED BLUFF, CAL. 



