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beans, sixty -five per cent; garden peas, 

 thirty-six per cent; and sweet corn, 

 126 per cent, as may be noted by re- 

 ferring to the table below. Of the Cali- 

 fornia seed crops, increases of 142 per 

 cent for carrot, ninety-four per cent for 

 lettuce, fifteen per cent for parsnip, 

 twenty-eight per cent for radish and 

 400 per cent for salsify are indicated, 

 while onion seed is practically the same 

 and parsley twenty-five per cent less. 



The acreage of muskmelon seed prob- 

 ably will be slightly smaller and of wa- 

 termelon somewhat larger than last 

 year, and present indications are that 

 the acreage of cucumber will be the 

 largest since 1917. The tomato seed 

 acreage may total 3,600 acres, which is 

 about equal to the 5-year average, 1917 

 to 1921. . ^ , . 



A substantial increase is reported in 

 the acreage of cabbage seed both on 

 Long Island and in the Puget Sound 

 district. In tke latter district much of 

 the acreage of this crop, as well as of 

 turnip and rutabaga, is reported a fail- 

 ure. 



Because many beet sugar manufac- 

 turers have discontinued growing sugar- 

 beet seed and others have curtailed 

 their seed-growing operations, the acre- 

 age of this seed crop for harvest in 1922 

 is expected to be only about 1,480 acres, 

 compared with 3,699 in 1921 and an 

 average of 7,000 acres for the five 

 years, 1916 to 1920. 



Comparative Figures. 



In the compilation of the foregoing 

 data and the 1922 figures in the table 

 below, reports of individual growing 

 operations were submitted by growers 

 who normally control approximately 

 eighty-five per cent of the aggregate 

 commercial aereage. A comparison was 

 made of the 1922 acreage of each crop 

 reported by these growers with their 

 1921 acreage and the prospective acre- 

 age of growers controlling the remain- 

 ing fifteen per cent was estimated on 

 the basis of this comparison and on mis- 

 cellaneous current data, and the esti- 

 mates are included in the figures given. 



Tbl department's figures on commer- 

 cial acreage •t vegetable seeds are as 

 follows: 



1922 

 acreage 

 Prospec- com- 



tlve Acreage pared 

 acreage planted with 

 Kind of seed 1922 1921 1921 



Acres Acres Per cent 

 Beans, dwarf B«ap.... 20 800 12.625 165 



Beans, garden poIeV.. 4,950 3,911 127 



Beet, garden Clu doO io- 



leefs'Sgar'"'. ::::::::: mS 3,«^ io 



cfbbage''" 850 636 134 



i-.^"" :: ^-ro '•'II \^ 



Lettuce ".'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'. 2,100 1.085 194 



Muskmelon 2,06.) 2,223 93 



Watermelon 8,980 6,558 106 



Onion seed 1.130 1,108 102 



OnC sets 3.300 3,^ 102 



Parsley «8 90 7.5 



Parsnip 5^ ■*" ^^■' 



Pens, garden 48.500 35,680 136 



Penuer 1.015 1.30S 78 



Pumpkin 1,170 905 129 



Radish .:: 2.065 1.617 128 



Salsifv 4i) 9 f>w 



Spinach ;....: 490 32 1..530 



Squash, summer 1.450 1,098 132 



Squash, winter 1,180 1,310 90 



Sweet corn ».200 4.064 226 



Tomato .":.:. 3:600 1,296 278 



Turnip and rutabaga. . 400 336 119 

 •Not including Lima beans. 



Imports for Two Years. 



The imports of a number of kinds of 

 seed, including sugar beet, cabbage, 

 carrot, cauliflower, corn salad, kale, 

 kohlrabi and radish, were considerably 

 leas in 1921 than in 1920, and the im- 



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