GROWING SUGAR BEETS IN CALIFORNIA. 
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Table V. — Distribution of farms by size in Los Angeles, Ventura, and Monterey 
counties, and in the groups in which the records obtained appear {1915- 
1916). 
Los Angeles 
County. 
Ventura County. 
Monterey County. 
Size. 
Thir- 
teenth 
Census. 
Farm 
records. 
Thir- 
teenth 
Census. 
Farm 
records. 
Thir- 
teenth 
Census. 
Farm 
records. 
3,122 
5,374 
1,049 
706 
100 
319 
214 
207 
112 
245 
66 
80 
253 
185 
263 
127 
507 
243 
9 
37 
14 
10 
10 
1 
1 
8 
14 
16 
6 
1 
9 
12 
252 
459 
122 
10 
260 to 999 acres. . . 
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In Los Angeles and Ventura Counties, according to the Census 
figures, the largest group of farms is that of from 10 to 49 acres, 
while in Monterey County there are more farms in the 260 to 999 
acre group than in any other class, and 243 of 1,000 acres and above. 
The numbers of farm records obtained in these groups are not 
quite in proportion to the Census figures. In Los Angeles County 
there are many small farms in the suburbs of the city of Los An- 
geles, over 75 per cent of the farms in the county having an acreage 
of 49 acres or less. Many of these small farms grow beets, but have 
such small acreages that they are not comparable with the larger 
sugar-beet farms. No records were used from farms with less than 
5 acres of beets. The largest number of records was obtained in the 
50 to 99 acre group. 1 
The beet farms visited in the other two areas are, as a rule, larger, 
most of them being in the 100 to 259 acre groups. 2 
CROPS GROWN. 
The number of major crops in each district was rather small. (See 
Table VI.) In the Los Angeles district sugar beets, alfalfa, and 
barley hay were the principal crops; in the Oxnard district sugar 
beets, beans, and barley; at Salinas, sugar beets, barley hay, and 
beans. 
1 It is the practice in this region for a grower owning a small farm to rent additional 
land. The total acreage farmed in such cases is considered the farm unit. This accounts 
for the apparent inconsistency in the table. 
2 One peculiarity in these districts is the lack of uniformity in size. Instead of being 
40, 80, 120, or 160 acre farms as in other Western States, the farms are of many different 
sizes. This is probably due to the breaking up of the land grants and the selling of the 
land in small irregular acreages. 
89948*— 19— Bull. 760 2 
