Film celebrating California's centennial. Shots of downtown El Centro. Narrator says Coachella Valley is renowned as date center of Western hemisphere. Shot of date tree. Shots of grain fields and combines at Chico. Shots of rice fields and combines harvesting. Shot of man holding a large sugar beet smoking a pipe. Shot of men harvesting sugar beets by hand in field. Shots of mechanical sugar beet harvester. Shots of refinery yard, huge mountain of beets. Shots of men picking cotton. CU shots of cotton in different stages of maturation. Shots of mechanical cotton harvester. Shots of cotton bales being transported. Shot of vineyards. CU shots of grapes on vines.