Calag Archive

The above progress report is based upon Research Project No. 860.

Condensed report of riddress by L. D. Batchelor before Directors' Meeting of the California Fruit Growers' Exchange.

Breeding beef heifers so they will calve at two years of age rather than at three years is one method of increasing meat supplies and improving production efficiency without enlarging numbers of breeding animals.

Fumigating oranges for red scale control is most effective when done between the middle of December and the end of February.

The only control for the sugar-beet nematode—that is knawn to be effective in California—is a four-point program based on crop rotation.

Lima beans are susceptible to the root-knot nematode—a nearly microscopic worm—whose attacks on the roots lead to severe curtailment of yield or to death of the plant.

Dry whole milk and dry ice cream mix of acceptable quality and with good storage properties can be manufactured if proper precautions are observed.

Labor savings in orchard pruning—ranging from 20 to 50% in man-hours—are often possible through use of pneumatic pruning equipment.

Molds and yeasts in packaged prunes can be destroyed by a few drops of propylene oxide.

Only three alleged cases of prussic acid poisoning from sudangrass were reported in California during the first nine months of 1948.

Marked reduction in mortality among young turkey poults afflicted with Hexamitiasis—an enteritis—has been obtained when diseased birds are, given dried whey in copper sulfate solution as a substitute for drinking water.