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Identifier: pacificservicema1019paci (find matches)
Title: Pacific service magazine
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Subjects: Pacific Gas and Electric Company Electric utilities Electrical engineering Public utilities
Publisher: San Francisco : Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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maltimes it is not a very profitable crop. InKentucky the farmer grows a small acre-age of hemp and does the breaking by hand when he has not much else to do,but before the war many farmers in Ken-tucky had abandoned hemp for tobacco. The Rindge Company also operates afactory at Middle River which makesstarch and potato flour from cull pota-toes, which formerly were left to rot onthe ground. This not only utilizes a wasteproduct, but it removes these small pota-toes from the ground. If left on theground they are a detriment to any suc-ceeding crops. The same company has about 4000acres planted to Indian corn or maize.It was formerly thought that corn couldnot be grown here to advantage, but thecorn grown on these lands is pronouncedby millers and other experts of betterquality than Eastern corn, and the yieldsare much heavier than in the corn beltof the Middle States. Mr. J. M. Perry, chairman of the StateBoard of Agriculture, furnished an in-teresting addition to the writers stock of
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Views of a Pacific Service mast-raising job on tlie island territory. 46 Pacific Service Magazine information concerning his agriculturalwonderland. In the Barnard tract, offour miles extent, where an enterprisingJapanese had forty-five acres planted topotatoes, the gross returns from this lastyear averaged $330 an acre, against whichhis rent was $20 and cost of seed $31.Allowing for other expenses, his operat-ing cost probably did not exceed $100per acre, so that he had $230 net. I paid $65 an acre for my property,said Mr. Perry, I get $20 an acre cashrent for it. Another interesting story concerns Ba-con Island, where George Shinia, knownas the Japanese potato king, holds sway.The writer was informed that Shima hadrented the island from the CaliforniaDelta Farms Corporation for a term offive years. The first year he paid $90,000rent for the property, but did nothingwith it, never even had it planted. Lastyear he sub-let to Chinese in 400-acrelots, he furnishing the seed and the land

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