10 BULLETIN 760, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
TABLE VI.—Crop acreages per farm and average yiclds per acre. 
Percent | Acres vs 
District and crop. Bumuber of total per Wield per 
orlarms. | farms. farm. acre. 
Los Angeles (average tillable area, 140 acres): 
SU PATH DECLS ae meee Sees eee ee Cee nae ae 81 100 95. 2 14. 52 tons. 
PAN Tey fates ieee ACC he Fa se ane ee nk ota 27 33 14.11 6.82 tons. 
Barleyphayecee. ssn ciacsaeee ae poset ae ee ee ae a teoee 24 30 61.4 1. 28 tons. 
© renege ese RENE OPE eet ay py By a ye EE 17 21 35. 49 
AES CATS Ho ee eV NS LOLI ea ee UY ia Va tp a a) na ec 12 15 45.5 12.37 ewt. 
IBATIC yA erat Nee ee Ae 2 se ea aN Be oe 2 2 140 30. 84 ewt. 
IP OFA ORS ors acts ON Ha a Se aCe oA SS Seah 2 2 8 83 ewt. 
Oxnard (average tillable area, 183 acres): 3 
Sugaribeets as eee ee aoe See eo eee ene eee 45 100 62. 47 9.53 tons. 
IB Cans Sepia near eeepc ee ca eens ee BOERS emer eee 42 93 87.57 13. 43 cwt. 
Barleyahaycs cso Sse cic es a ton sae ats ose cies Stee ees 23 51 27.65 1.48 tons 
ANUS) SES a ee ere ane aes aya A LEER a tars eS 9 20 9.33 4.88 tons 
IWihea thay ess eae eae cee oe ee ae yap ae 6 13 61.33 1.74 tons. 
Barley Grain son ce eee gala ala eee ee eee 2. 4 11 26.54 ewt. 
IE OLA EOES Beate lk ra tstege Al epe a Oars aa see ra IRS 2 4 -75 94.4 cwt. 
(Chaya SES RA eae ee eG ner OR See apamnine emu nae ena 2 4 28 
Salinas (average tillable area, 178 acres): : 
ESAUTSREY OS] OYeYeT SSS RA Ne ee ee a eee eS 39 100 92.72 15.59 tons. 
iBarleyihay. ee See sae eee enor Biss, yearns 30 77 35.93 2.42 tons. 
IS CATIS Baas eS y et ihe es ky Ne Fee aed APRIL Cok = ele 15 38 27 10.28 ewt. 
Barleyceralmics sess ne cmee eee eee eee eeaaee 15 38 59.13 36. 95 ewt. 
OLA OCS ee ee Se cise tse t EC e UE ee eee ieee 14 36 22.82 70. 85 ewt. 
PAN Tea fee oe Re eyeereinere sae an eine ace eee ee ceteris | 7 18 16.57 4.74 tons. 
TEENS Se Se ne Pe en re es Se a | 4 10 43.25 22.98 cwt. 
On all farms where records were obtained sugar beets and beans 
were the principal cash crops. In the Oxnard district, beans were 
grown on 93 per cent of the farms visited. Barley hay was pro- 
duced on 77 per cent of the Salinas farms. In all districts the 
major portion of the barley crop was grown for hay. On 38 per 
cent of these farms barley was grown for grain. 
Twenty-one per cent of the farmers reporting in the Los Angeles 
area grew corn. As a part was husked and the remainder fed as 
fodder, no attempt was made to determine the yield per acre. 
Alfalfa was grown on 33 per cent of the Los Angeles farms studied 
in this investigation and was cut an average of six times during the 
season. On Oxnard farms five cuttings were made, in the Salinas 
district three. Peas for seed were grown on 10 per cent of the Salinas 
farms. 
In addition to the crops shown in the table a small acreage in each 
district was devoted to fruit, and in the Los Angeles district a small 
amount of cauliflower and other vegetables was grown. 
No attempt has been made in any case to establish a definite crop 
rotation, nor is the acreage grown from year to year at all uniform. 
On 78 per cent of the farms in the Los Angeles district beets followed 
beets, and on a few farms the sugar beet had been grown continu- 
ously on the same land for as many as 10 years. Beets followed beans 
on only five farms. 
In the Oxnard district beets were grown immediately after beets 
on 51 per cent of the farms. It is a common practice in this area 
to grow beets continuously on land that is slightly alkaline, while 
