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In 1960 state farms and other state organizations owned 2.7 percent of livestock; negdels, 73.8 percent; and individual negdel members, 23.5 percent. [7] The state sector owned 77.5 percent of sown lands, and the cooperative sector the remainder. The Mongolian yak which still plays a role in farming in the least developed and poorer parts of ...
Following Edgemoor's glory days as a commercial dairy, the County of San Diego purchased the property from Godfrey L. Strobeck for use as a "last resort" home for the aged and indigent in 1923. It was one of the last poor farms (or farm homes) established in the United States prior to the Great Depression and the introduction of Social Security ...
The Denver metropolitan area was one of the early focal points for the new wave of Mongolian immigrants. [6] Other communities formed by recent Mongolian immigrants include ones in Chicago, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. [3] The largest Mongolian-American community in the United States is located in Los Angeles, California.
4S Ranch is an unincorporated, master-planned community in the North County area of San Diego County, California. [1] It is located about 25 miles (40 km) north of downtown San Diego and 13 miles (21 km) east of the Pacific Ocean, just outside the incorporated city limits of San Diego.
Carondelet Farm is a horse racing operation and breeding farm in Ramona, California near San Diego. The property was named after Carondelet Street in New Orleans. Carondelet Farm has raced and/or bred a number of Graded and Group Stakes Winners including Champion racehorse Artax who won the 1999 Breeders' Cup Sprint. [1]
It was first imported to a frog farm in San Diego County in 1932, and proved so successful as feed and food that descendants were sold around the state. [300] They escaped and now are a widespread nuisance. [300] Lymantria dispar (spongy moth, gypsy moth) is an established pest here. [301]
Wages for cotton pickers in the San Joaquin Valley were set by the Agricultural Labor Bureau, an employers' organization. [10] In 1929, the Great Depression lowered the demand for cotton and many marginal planters lost their assets to Bank of America and others who held the notes. The US government bailed the growers out in 1933, offering them ...
The South Bay Salt Works is a salt factory in southern San Diego near Chula Vista, in the South Bay region of San Diego County, California.. Initially operating under the name La Punta Salt Works operations dating back to at least 1871, for a period of time it was the sole supplier of salt for Southern California.