History of Fresno County, Vol. 1 by Paul E. Vandor

Author:Paul E. Vandor [Vandor, Paul E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Travel, United States, West, Pacific (AK; CA; HI; OR; WA), History, State & Local, West (AK; CA; CO; HI; ID; MT; NV; UT; WY), Americas (North; Central; South; West Indies), General
ISBN: 9783849658984
Google: Jh0DEAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
Published: 2020-10-15T00:42:02+00:00

CHAPTER XXXVI

Sun-kissed California is a state where things are done on a big scale.

Farm products of the United States totaled in 1917 the unprecedented value of $19,443,849,381. This is an increase of more than $6,000,000,000 over 1916 and almost $9,000,000,000 more than in 1915. The estimate of the U. S. Department of Agriculture is made up as follows:

Farm Crops $13,610,462,782

Animals and Products $ 5,833,386,599

Crops represent seventy per cent, of the farm products value. California's farm products are given a value of $432,285,000. Its rank is tenth among the states.

Interesting facts as to the 1917 dairy production are contained in the state dairy bureau report. The butter production showed a marked decrease. In 1916 it was 70,030,174 pounds, as against 68,373,021 in 1917. Notable however that while the yield was almost 2,000,000 pounds less, its value was over $6,000,000 more, being $19,181,264 for 1916 and for 1917, $25,345,879. The total 1917 cheese output was 9,236,663 pounds as against 11,745,124 in 1916. Santa Clara leads all counties with 1,567,305 pounds, Monterey second with 1,336,727, a reversal of places for these counties as Monterey led in 1916. The value of the cheese output was $1,827,012. The increase is over 7,000.000 pounds in condensed, evaporated and powdered milk and in casein over 200 per cent.

Dairying has become such a notable industry in the central portion of the state with its alfalfa fields and climate, the latter permitting dairy stock to be out in pasture all the year, as to warrant the formation of the San Joaquin Valley Milk Producers' Association to control it. The Danish Creamery as a notably successful business institution of Fresno of twenty-two years of standing and one that has been awarded a succession of first prizes in state butter competitions, reported an increase in business for 1917 of thirty-nine per cent. The gross business was $858,560.86, an increase -principally due to the high price of the article. The butter made also showed a substantial increase over the previous year — total made 2,073.185 pounds. For January 1918 by way of illustration, it may be cited that the price of butter fat was fixed at sixty cents a pound, the amount paid for butter fat was $71,034.67 and for the corresponding period the year before $56,156.24.

Outranking all others is Fresno's 1917 increase in raisin production. There was produced in 1916 more than three times as much raisins as all California and in 1917 alone almost as many pounds as the 1916 grand total. Less than half a dozen of the fifty-eight counties of the state produce raisins in commercial quantity. Since 1913 the raisin crop has steadily increased. The crop in 1912 was 170,000,000 pounds but fell off in 1913 to 130.000,000. In 1916 it was up to the enormous total of 264,000,000 pounds which crop was exceeded the year after by 36,000,000 pounds.

Exports have made satisfactory increase from 14,000,000 in 1914, to 24,000.000 in 1915 and 75,000,000 pounds in 1916. That crop would have been the largest on record but

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