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Excerpt from Asparagus
Practically all of the canning asparagus and about 45 per cent of the table asparagus produced in the United States are grown in California. Of the total bearing acreage of acres in this state in 1929 approximately 93 per cent was in the Delta district.4 This district contributes all of the canning asparagus and about 90 per cent of the carlot shipments of table asparagus from California. The other areas in the state producing table asparagus are in Imperial, Fresno, Los Angeles, Riverside, and Orange counties. Between 1922 and 1926 there was an increase of 122 per cent in the bearing acreage in the Delta, most of which occurred in the last two years of that period. The very high prices which growers received in 1923 and 1924 greatly stimulated plantings. In those two years acres were planted, which was equal to 91 per cent of the total bearing acreage in 1922. These plantings, however, did not result in a corresponding increase in bearing acreage until two years. Later, since asparagus does not usually come into bearing until the second year after the crowns are planted. As contrasted with the rapid expansion just described; the increase during the past three years has been small. In 1929 the bearing acreage in the Delta amounted to acres, only acres larger than in 1926. Judging from the recent plant ings and the acreage that will normally go out of production in the next two years, the bearing acreage in 1931 will be about 7 per cent larger than in 1929. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.