. Journal of electricity. The new rice fields of California February 1, 1918] JOURNAL OF ELECTRICITY 125 FODDER CORNThe first year after irrigation pro-duces a bumper crop of corn oralfalfa or potatoes, as the casemay be. Some 37,000 bushels ofcorn and an equal amount of kaf-fir corn and maize were grown in1916 in Fresno county — and theyear of war demand has broughtan increase of something like 50per cent in MILES OF POTATOES$ was realized from everyacre of this vast potato field andthen the ground was ready forth*next crop. Some five crops of al-falfa are obtained in a year a
. Journal of electricity. The new rice fields of California February 1, 1918] JOURNAL OF ELECTRICITY 125 FODDER CORNThe first year after irrigation pro-duces a bumper crop of corn oralfalfa or potatoes, as the casemay be. Some 37,000 bushels ofcorn and an equal amount of kaf-fir corn and maize were grown in1916 in Fresno county — and theyear of war demand has broughtan increase of something like 50per cent in MILES OF POTATOES$ was realized from everyacre of this vast potato field andthen the ground was ready forth*next crop. Some five crops of al-falfa are obtained in a year aswell as double crops of manyother food products. The main-tenance of this vast area at fullproduction capacity is one of theconstructive services of the war. THE CORCORAN GRAINWAREHOUSECarloads of war service in much-needed grain, all from irrigatedfarms where water is pumpedelectrically from Lake Tulare, for-merly the second largest freshwater lake in the United States,but today gradually receding dueto intensive use of its water in ir-rigation.
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