9 BULLETIN 1282, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
ALMOND-GROWING DISTRICTS IN CALIFORNIA 
Almonds succeed in various localities in California from Shasta 
County in the north to Riverside County in the south, a distance of 
some 700 miles. But while the California almond belt is thus equal 
in length to the distance from the southern boundary of New York 
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Wig. 1.—Almond-growing districts in California 
to central Georgia, in width it rarely exceeds 60 miles. The Sacra- 
mento and San Joaquin Valleys with their adjacent foothill dis- 
tricts produce the bulk of the almond crop. The map (fig. 1) shows 
the important almond-growing sections numbered, while Table 1 
refers to th2 districts by number and by name and enumerates the 
localities included in each district. In the variety descriptions refer- 

