Calag Archive

The fifth plot, located near Oxnard, Ventura County, California, was planted in 1936. The cuttings and budlings are progenies of one parent, and the root-stock is sweet orange. The soil is a Yolo fine sandy loam.

The objective of the breeder of milk goats should be, not to produce better animals than we have to Jay, but to reproduce the most useful that we have—uniformly and at will.

Results of several years of experiments in making crosses between broadbreasted and other strains of Bronze turkeys have demonstrated that the differences in weight, width of breast, and other characters are inherited and the indications are that there is a high degree of heritability.

The following extract is from an address prepared by George H. Hart for the Eleventh International Congress of Pure and Applied Chemistry, London, England, July, 1947.

Seven new grasses and one winter annual legume have recently been certified by the California Crop Improvement Association and the seed placed in the hands of seed growers.

Seasonal and year-round farm workers must be housed somewhere—on the farm where they work, or off the farm in quarters of their own choice.

California's first law pertaining to the control of bovine brucellosis became effective on January 2, 1948. The vaccination of all female dairy calves with Brucella abortus Strain 19 now is compulsory under the provisions of the new law.

There are 15 elements that are necessary for plant growth.

In recent years leaf miners have been responsible for serious losses to field-grown asters in the Los Angeles area.

Baby pigs apparently are born with only enough iron reserves stored in their livers to last them for a period of about seven to 10 days.

The common California red scale is the most serious pest of citrus in southern California.