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The remaining forty-nine counties only bring the total of al- 

 mond trees in the State to 9,400 acres and that of walnuts to 14,912 

 acres. One can easily see how limited are the districts as yet 

 devoted to these products. Three almond counties Butte, Solano, 

 and Alameda contain nearly one half of the total acreage of the 

 State ; four walnut counties Ventura, Orange, Los Angeles, and 

 Santa Barbara contain more than four fifths of all the trees 

 planted. The almond, however, is grown to some extent in forty- 

 six counties and the walnut in forty-five. Italian chestnuts, pe- 

 cans, and filberts have been planted to the extent of perhaps 100 

 acres. This makes the total acreage of nut-bearing trees in the 

 State 24,412. It is not likely that more than 100 or 200 acres were 

 overlooked. In round numbers there may possibly be 25,000 acres 

 in this class of trees. 



The last division contains the grapes and small fruits. Wine 

 and raisin grapes have been very carefully tabulated each year, 

 but table grapes with less attention to details, and small fruits not 

 at all until recently. The grape industry is mostly carried on in 

 the fourteen counties represented by the following table : 



TABLE IV. Acreage of Grapes. 



The total acreage of wine grapes is 91,428 ; that of raisin grapes 

 is 81,773 ; and that of table grapes is 18,732. Besides, the area 

 devoted to small fruits, as far as can be ascertained, is 5,081 acres. 

 Alameda, Sacramento, and San Joaquin contain over three fifths 

 of the small-fruit area of the State. 



Returning to grapes, the results are obtained from the statis- 

 tics of the State Viticultural Commissioners' Report of 1891, with 

 the figures for a few missing counties filled in from other reliable 

 sources. As in previous tables, the chief centers of each depart- 

 ment of the industry are easily recognized. Table grapes are of 



