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WHEAT GROWING IN THE PACIFIC STATES. 



The following account is taken from a bulletin recently 

 issued by the United States Department of Agriculture (Misc. 

 Series, No. 20), dealing with the cultivation of wheat and 

 general agricultural conditions in the Pacific Coast Region of 

 the United States. 



The wheat-growing region of the Pacific Coast is located 

 in the States of California, Oregon, Washington, and Idaho, 

 the areas of greatest production being the San Joaquin and 

 vSacramento valleys in California, the Willamette valley 

 running along the west of the Cascade Mountains in Oregon, 

 and the valley of the Columbia and Snake Rivers, in Oregon, 

 Washington and Idaho. 



There are two main types of climate in these districts. In 

 the coast regions of Washington, Oregon, and the north of 

 California there is annual rainfall of from 40 to 100 inches, 

 with a moderate temperature. In the two principal wheat 

 valleys of California, on the other hand, not only is the 

 temperature much higher, but the precipitation is much 

 smaller, especially in the San Joaquin valley, where 

 it is less than 15 inches annually. But as nearly the whole 

 of this falls during the winter months from November 

 to May, during which the wheat crop makes its principal 

 growth, the total quantity is, as a rule, sufficient to 

 mature the crop. The conditions about the Snake River, in 

 Idaho and the eastern portions of Washington and Oregon, 

 again, are similar to those in the interior of California, 

 although with a somewhat larger rainfall and lower tempera- 

 ture, but they are much dryer than the coastal regions. 



The methods of farming in vogue on the Pacific Coast are 



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