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Condensed from an address delivered before the California State Association of County Assessors, Sept. 2, 1947, Son Francisco, California.

Preliminary field tests on the University Farm, Davis, indicate that pre-emergence spraying offers promise as one method of controlling weeds in sugar beets. The method may be applicable to other row crops.

Milk-holding tanks on dairy farms, used in conjunction with tank trucks, are bringing about savings to the dairyman and to the milk buyer through the elimination of the ten-gallon milk can.

Over one hundred citrus growers in Orange County have cooperated with the Agricultural Extension Service for the past 21 years in a cost study and analysis of orchard management.

Abortion and sterility constitute major sources of loss to the dairy cattle producer.

Water infiltration rates into Yolo loam during irrigation were measured in 96 basins in a series of experiments conducted in Los Angeles County over a period of five years.

For more than 10 years barley growers have had available a highly satisfactory seed treatment for its control, yet field surveys in each year since 1943 show that more than 20% of the barley fields in the state have stripe. An increasing proportion of fields have more than 10% of the plants killed by stripe.

Spraying insecticides such as DDT in liquid form by airplane may greatly reduce the drifting problem encountered when spreading poisonous dust by plane.

Treating seeds of several vegetable or field crops with the proper fungicides may improve stands by reducing the amount of seed decay or damping-off. In addition, several seed-borne diseases can be controlled by seed treatment.

There is no known effective method of preventing the cooked or caramelized flavor and brown discoloration of milk processed at high temperatures to render it sterile.