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Governor Stephens points with pride to his cucumbers Frontispiece 



A picturesque river-bank garden irrigated with Chinese pump 32 



Onions and lettuce. Laying off for cultivation and irrigation 33 



Laying off in ridges and ridges flattened for planting 40 



Tomatoes, cantaloups, etc., in young orchard 41 



Globe artichokes in the foreground of a farm garden near Stockton 56 



Bean field in the Imperial Valley furrowed out for irrigation 57 



Digging sugar beets with a tractor on the Meek Ranch near Antioch 64 



Section of a cabbage field in the Modesto District, San Joaquin Valley. . 65 



Cauliflower field showing method of furrowing out and irrigating 96 



Pulling celery plants from seed-bed and transplanting to deep furrows in 

 the field 97 



Field of banked celery in the vegetable region of Orange County 128 



Corn field near a head ditch in Princeton District of Colusa County 129 



Lettuce set at edge of moisture; also headed lettuce right to gather 160 



Fruiting of cantaloup in a California garden on moist land 161 



Cantaloups from horizon to horizon in Imperial Valley 192 



Growth and bearing of watermelons on moist riverside lands 193 



A field of peas for canning near Los Angeles with pickers in the distance 224 



A glimpse at the heart of a California pepper plant 225 



Potatoes in the Los Molinos region of Tehama County 256 



New settler's outfit and rhubarb field near Marysville 257 



Field squash in Arroyo Grande Valley, San Luis Obispo County 288 



Fruiting of California tomato plant disclosed by clipping away foliage 289 



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