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from Sao reman to in the south to k&odltoa City and Hord on tho north. 
Only a few email tma of a&nor importance lay outside this region. Tbs 
Kiot districts on tha vast aids of tha stress vers tributary in tha main 
to Maxwell. Colusa and Willows, and on tha east aids centered in Marys- 
ville. Gridley and biggs. part of the land utilised waa of good quality 
and was suitable for other crops* She greater part of the acreage however 
was on low lying traota known aa tha "Alkali" lands or "Goose" lands that 
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had in tha me in/ under cultivation previously. These tracts are not suit- 
ed for other oropa but with abundant water will produce two or three good 
orops of rloa before inroads of weeds, rising alkali or other factors 
cause them to be abandoned. Because of tha large profits made in rice 
culture due to .the high prloe of rioa extensive tracts of these lands 
bad oeen put under water* Uuoh of this was fanned by compani oe who con- 
trolled large bolding* Thus the Bodge Land Company below Ohioo had 4000 
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sores of rice and it waa o canon to encounter traota of 500 to 1000 acres 
under one control. The total area in rioe in California in 1918 waa 
given by the agents of the Pacific nice Growers Assooiatlon in Sacramento 
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as 130.000 acres. 
The most popular varieties of rioe grown here at this time were 
a long headed late maturing Japanese rioe known as bataribune. and an 
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early rioe oalled 1600 (a form established here by the 0. 3. Department 
ef Agrioultore ) . A bearded rioe oalled 156*1 with long heavy beards like 
barley was also common and a thin hulled early Japanese variety known 
me bus Hero that had been introduced recently was gaining in popularity. 
The heads of the early fonts began to fill about September 1. Cutting 
began in the earliest fields near Maxwell on September 22. out this 
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