L. W. Currey, Inc.

(California; Fresno County) California Peach & Fig Growers, Incorporated. FIGS COUNTY OF FRESNO CALIFORNIA [cover title]. [Fresno, California: California Peach & Fig Growers, Incorporated], n.d. [1922]. Single sheet, 23x61 cm, folded to make 12 panels, printed in orange and black. 7 illustrations including one on outer panels. A folder promoting the expansion of the California fig industry with general information and statistics and descriptions of fig varieties and characteristics. In 1920 the California Peach Growers cooperative undertook the marketing of dried figs as well as peaches and "a successful campaign was carried on to sign up the fig acreage and secure contracts for the crops." In the early 1920s Fresno County supplied four-fifths of California's fig crop, most of it dried. A fine copy. (#174157).

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