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 This statement seems to have started the Californian mind to examining the Californian carobs. The Experiment Station reported that carob beans tested out a little better than barley when mixed with milo and fed to calves for 13 weeks as a grain ration supplementing the milk and alfalfa hay ration fed in addition.

Mr. C. W. Beers, Horticultural Commissioner at Santa Barbara, went up and down the state studying carob trees. He told me in June, 1917, by letter, that twenty-year-old seedlings, fourteen feet across the tops, had produced one hundred and fifty pounds of beans for three consecutive years.