10 SOILS OF THE SUTTEE BASIN. 



niand a heavier farming equipment and call for somewhat more 

 thorough tillage and careful management. Under favorable condi- 

 tions of protection from overflow, drainage, and cultural practice, 

 however, the character of the soil is such as to show it to be adapted 

 to the culture of small grains, broom corn, sorghum, and other similar 

 forage crops, and root crops. Profitable production of the sugar beet 

 would necessitate deep plowing and thorough tillage but is success- 

 fully carried on in other sections of California and elsewhere upon 

 soils of equally heavy texture. Vegetables, such as cabbage, cauli- 

 flower, etc., could probably be grown for home use and possibly upon 

 a commercial scale, but conditions would appear to be more favorable 

 for such crops upon the adjacent soils of lighter texture. Under the 

 circumstances stated the soil should be capable of sustaining a dairy- 

 ing and stock-raising industry, and where the water table can be 

 maintained at a favorable depth below the surface alfalfa should be 

 successfully grown. The culture of rice, a recently introduced crop 

 in the Sacramento Valley, might prove well worthy of trial. 



The culture of alfalfa (where favored by sufficient depth of the 

 water table), sugar beets, grains, forage crops, dairy and stock farm- 

 ing would seem to present the most stable and promising means of 

 utilizing the lands of the tract under discussion when successfully re- 

 claimed and drained. 



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