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Stone fruit growers should consider the use of peach roots in areas where bacterial canker—commonly known to growers as Sour Sap and bacterial gummosis—is a major problem.

The most advantageous time to pick raisin grapes for sun drying represents a compromise between two considerations: (1) The larger yields and better quality obtained from well-ripened fruit, and (2) The more favorable drying conditions early in the season.

The fattening of lambs on irrigated pastures is not without its problems.

Extract of talk given before the California Chapter, National Institute of Farm Brokers, Davis, June, 1947.

The following abstract is from an address given before the Quarterly Meeting of the Dairy Institute of California at Eureka, August 21, 1947, By E. L. Jack, Chairman of the Division of Dairy Industry, College of Agriculture.

A description of oil fractions and their toxic effects on weeds, extracted from the Agricultural Extension Service Circular No. 137, General Contact Weed Killers, issued by the University of California College of Agriculture. The complete circular may be obtained without charge by addressing a request to the College of Agriculture, Berkeley 4, California.

Scientific research by commercial and governmental interests has resulted in an unprecedented development of new materials showing great promise as insecticides. Intelligent evaluation of their potentialities will offer big dividends in improving the efficiency of present day pest control practices.

Probably it was present in the Sacramento Valley at the same time.

The water consumption results reported below are the by-product of a large experiment designed to study the affect of changes in environmental temperature on high producing dairy cows.

An inch, or even less, of rain on dried range feed can leach out the soluable sugars, 10% to 20% of the protein, and as much as 60% of the mineral.

Recently two relatively inert mineral substances have been tested which appear to have numerous uses in plant growing, especially in operations connected with plant propagation. These are heat-expanded vermiculite and perlite.