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desired a home-grown supply to displace costly 

 importations from Texas and pursued systematic 

 propaganda to secure it. However, this availed little 

 until cotton-growing took its new start in the Impe- 

 rial Valley, in the extreme southeast corner of the 

 State, where after a few years of small experiments 

 and large planning, production assumed a commer- 

 cial character in 1909. Since then cotton-growing 

 has been commercially pursued in adjacent parts of 

 California and Arizona and more recently in the 

 San Joaquin Valley. The rapid increase in produc- 

 tion and the satisfactory results obtained are shown 

 by the following tabular compilation from the reports 

 of the United States Department of Agriculture: 



Year Acreage Yield of Lint Average Price 



500 Ib. Bales a Lb. 



1910 8,000 6,000 10.8 



1911 12,000 10,000 7.5 



1912 9,000 8,000 12.5 



1913 14,000 23,000 13.0 



1914 47,000 50,000 7.0 



1915 39,000 29,000 11.2 



1916 52,000 44,000 20.0 



1917 126,000 58,000 28.0 



1918 173,000 67,000 30.0 



1919 167,000 102,000 43.0 



1920 275,000 143,016 18. 



The high average price is due to the fact that so 

 much long-staple cotton is grown and the large 

 acre value is also due to this in connection with 

 the large weight obtained. In average price and 

 acre value, California leads all the states except 



