CHAPTER VI 

 ANIMAL INDUSTRIES OF CALIFORNIA 



In view of the fact that California's reputation 

 for agricultural production rests chiefly on eminence 

 in horticultural lines, it is interesting to note that 

 in aggregate value of domestic animals the State 

 stands fourteenth among the forty-eight of the 

 Union. The progress by decades, as compiled from 

 the reports of the United States Department of 

 Agriculture, is as follows : 



VALUE OF ALL FARM ANIMALS IN CALIFORNIA 



1920 $234,000,000 



1910 127,599,938 



1900 67,303,325 



1890 65,575,427 



1880 41,498,417 



1870 40,306,300 



1860 35,585,017 



1850 3,351,058 



It is notable that the great increases came during 

 the first and the last two full decades. The great 

 drive on fruit, which has resulted in an annual 

 production with selling value of two hundred and 

 fifty millions, did not cause a backward movement 

 in animal husbandry, so the current great drive on 



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