Identifier: americanaunivers03newy (find matches)
Title: The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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0 were enormous hold- Union; as it leads in all tropical fruits,ings,— reckoned at least by tens of thousands California is first successful grower of sugar of acres,— with the single crop (almost ex- beets, and has by far the largest factories. In clusively wheat and barley) and purchase of 1900 it had 37.4 per cent of acreage and 44.9 every other article of necessity or luxury. On per cent of beet sugar product of the entire areas of hundreds of square miles apiece there Union. The sensational achievements of Lu- were an individual or corporate owner, a single ther Burbank in hybridizing fruits — for in- crop, a few hundred hirelings at the height of stance, the creation of a large plum without any the season, and their temporary quarters. A pit whatever — are already world-famous. few of these enormous ranchos still survive; Almost as remarkable results have been reached and Miller and Lux still farm about 1,000,000 in floriculture. Seeds and bulbs are raised on CALIFORNIA.
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I. Mt. Sliasta, from Sissons. 2. Mt. Tamalpais, near San Francisco. CALIFORNIA a great scale; carnations, calla lilies, and otherflowers being grown outdoors by the lo-acrefield. Total area of California farms is now over45,000 square miles; considerably exceeding en-tire area of States of Massachusetts, NewHampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Is-land, and Maryland. The State is eleventh inthe Union in per capita value of farm products($88) and fifth in value products per farm($i,8i6 as compared with Ohio, $929). California has (1900) 72,542 farms; totalvalue of farm property, $706,527,955 ; total valuefarm products 1809, $131,690,606. Total acreagein farms, 28.828,951 acres, of which 11,958,837acres are improved. The area farmed has in-creased 34.5 per cent since 1890. In 1850 therewere 872 farms; in i860, 18,716. The devel-opment of farming is briefly indicated as fol-lows: Year Farms Acres Val. farmProperty ValueProducts 1900 1890 1880 1870 72.54252.89435.934 23,72^ 28,828,95121,

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