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able to mites and other small vermin and more favor- 

 able to natural growth of green feed. However, 

 these questions, formerly zealously discussed, are now 

 considered largely academic, as practical farmers keep 

 fowls everywhere and because very large commercial 

 production is now attained in localities which were 

 formerly looked on as unfavorable to hens. In all 

 parts of the State disappointments and sometimes 

 disasters have attended ventures in poultry produc- 

 tion as they have everywhere, but experience has 

 demonstrated that they are more the fault of the man 

 than of the hen, because her health and environment 

 were not properly provided for. 



The chief regions in commercial poultry produc- 

 tion as designated by G. H. Croley of San Francisco, 

 in their relative importance (and their location in the 

 regional districting of the State according to Chapter 

 I) is as follows: 



1. Petaluma district, including Santa Rosa and 

 Sebastopol Region 2. 



2. California south of Tehachapi eight counties 

 Region 3. 



3. Hay ward -Livermore, including the suburbs of 

 the city of Oakland Region 2. 



4. Santa Cruz-Watsonville-Salinas Region 2. 



5. San Jose-Gilroy-Hollister (Santa Clara Valley) 

 Region 2. 



6. Sacramento- Stockton Region 4. 



Y. San Joaquin Valley (beyond the portion included 

 in No. 6) Region 4. 



8. Sacramento Valley (beyond the portion included 

 in No. 6) Region 4. 



9. Sonoma-El Verano-Napa Region 2. 



