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Show KISCELLANBOUS CROPS Summaries have been made in connection with the 1946 reports, for the first time, as to some of the more important miscellaneous or specialty crops. In sob* instances these individual crops account for large segments of project income and are a vital contribution to prosperity in a region. Briefly, some of these crops were as follows: Crop Acreage Production Gross Value pounds Fruit and Nuts Apricots 3,070 25,068,496 $1,230,795 Cherries 3,982 32,052,259 4,067,529 Grapes 3,896 20,648,906 930,108 Pecans 5,157 2,132,470 823,836 Truck bushels Asparagus t,576 854,877 1,767,922 Cantaloupes 18,470 3,072,145 5,535,270 Carrots ^,987 1,932,880 2,343,417 Sweet corn 7,279 1,412,615 558,588 Lettuce 48,422 14,014,872 10,365,668 Melons 5,573 1,402,068 1,346,671 Tarn** om» 9,766 3,002,553 2,190,699 Peas 12,456 659,328 1,158,242 Seed bushels Peaa 16,291 323,772 1,122,461 Beans 8,496 172,592 866,446 Sweet corn 5,868 261,357 1,011,580 Flax 19,783 445,932 1,661,836 Sugar beets 3,039 449,768 1,117,U9 Miscellaneous pounds 6,816,282 Hops 4,240 4,623,859 Hint oil 1,119 55,576 336,846 Mwreery 854 ---- 538,633 |