Calag Archive

Introduction of the air-carrier type of sprayer in 1944, demonstrated the value of a large volume of air at low velocity in obtaining an even, uniform insecticide coverage in deciduous fruit orchards.

Sudan grass offers relief in the forage shortage this year.

Quality of product in wine-growing could be improved markedly by a closer application of technological knowledge concerning refrigeration requirements of fermentation.

The fattening effect of estrogens—well understood in chickens—has occasioned considerable interest during the past season which was the first in which estrogen preparations have been generally available to the poultry industry.

The evidence developed in two years of study—with three lots of lambs on a ranch in Mendocino County—indicates that there are a number of factors involved in the “break” which frequently interrupts the finishing of lambs on irrigated ladino and grass pastures.