AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRIES 159 



Fresh Vegetables Canned Vegetables 



( carloads ) ( cases * ) 



Artichokes 60 



Asparagus 490 1,024,813 



Beans, string 99,269 



Cabbage 1,223 



Cantaloupes 12,849 



Cauliflowers 2,167 



Celery 1,440 



Peas 366,679 



Lettuce 5,764 



Spinach 685,328 



Tomatoes 1,500 1,858,822 



Tomato products 833,019 



Other vegetables 5,657 382,116 



Watermelons 3,061 



Potatoes, sweet potatoes and onions add figures to 

 the shipment of fresh vegetables when prices in dis- 

 tant markets and freight rates favor such movement. 

 In 1919, 6,286 carloads of potatoes and 5,236 car- 

 loads of onions were shipped out of the State by 

 rail but no such movement was possible in 1920. 

 There is also considerable shipment of vegetables by 

 sea to foreign ports and for ship-stores, neither of 

 which is included in the tabulation, which indicates 

 only the uses made of a portion of the total produc- 

 tion estimated in Chapter IV. Total valuation of 

 truck-crops grown in California sometimes rises 

 above forty million dollars. 



Bean-growing is the most important vegetable in- 

 dustry of California. There are no native beans in 

 the agricultural sense, nor does California share in 

 the aboriginal endowment of beans, which, through 

 the recent popularity of the tepary and other ab- 



1 A case contains six one-gallon tins or the equivalent. 



