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Adding these totals, we obtain the area of the semitropic orchards 

 of California, according to the latest and most reliable data. There 

 are 64,361 acres of oranges, 9,274 acres of olives, 12,396 acres of 

 lemons, and 5,280 acres of figs. The entire acreage devoted to the 

 semitropic fruits above classified is 91,311. No reasonable allow- 

 ance for small orchards overlooked would be likely to bring this 

 total to much more than 95,000 acres. Studying the table, we 



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observe that the leading orange-growing counties are San Ber- 

 nardino and Los Angeles; the leading fig county is Los Angeles, 

 with Santa Barbara very close, but both still under the thousand- 

 acre mark ; the leading olive counties are San Diego and Santa 

 Barbara, and the leading lemon counties are San Diego and Los 

 Angeles. Placer, Butte, Sacramento, and Yuba are the only coun- 

 ties in the Sacramento Valley and northern Sierra foothills that 



