10 BULLETIN 760, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Table YI. — Crop acreages per farm and arerage yields per acre. 
District and crop. 
Number 
of farms. 
Per cent Acres 
of total per 
farms. farm. 
Yield per 
acre. 
Los Angeles (average tillable area, 140 acres) 
Sugar beets 
Alfalfa 
Barley hay 
Corn 
Beans 
Barley grain 
Potatoes 
Oxnard (average tillable area, 183 acresj: 
Sugar beets 
Beans 
Barley hay 
Alfalfa../. 
Wheat hay 
Barley grain 
Potatoes 
Corn 
Salinas (average tillable area, 178 acres): 
Sugar beets 
Barley hay 
Beans '. 
Barley grain 
Potatoes 
Alfalfa 
100 
33 
30 
21 
15 
2 
2 
100 
93 
51 
20 
13 
4 
4 
4 
95.2 
14.11 
61.4 
35.49 
45.5 
140 
62.47 
87.57 
27.65 
9.33 
61.33 
11 
.75 
3 
92.72 
35.93 
27 
59.13 
22.82 
16.57 
43.25 
14. 52 tons. 
6. 82 tons. 
1. 28 tons. 
12. 37 cwt. 
30. 84 cwt. 
83 cwt. 
9. 53 tons. 
13. 43 cwt. 
1. 48 tons 
4. 88 tons 
1. 74 tons. 
26.54cvrt. 
94.4 cwt. 
15.59 tons. 
2. 42 tons. 
10.28 cwt. 
36. 95 cwt. 
70. 85 cwt. 
4.74 tons. 
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 G.Y& 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. 
Xo 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 
