Calag Archive

The dwarf disease of alfalfa is now an important factor in the rapid thinning of stands during the second and third season of growth in about one third of the alfalfa producing area of California.

This is the ninth article in a series of brief progress reports on the application of the science of genetics to commercial agriculture.

Gardenia flower production in greenhouses in the San Francisco Bay area has been seriously affected by a diseased condition brought on by the accumulation of excessive amounts of soluble salts in the soil in the growing benches.

Ten times more almonds are being produced annually in California than in 1915, and imports of shelled almonds from southern Europe have increased greatly since World War II.

Four different fertilizer treatments and time of sampling—as they affect the chemical composition and nutrient uptake by potatoes grown in Kern County—were studied from plantings, on a Hesperia fine, sandy loam soil.

The oxygen requirements of avocado roots were studied as part of a general investigation on the causes and control of avocado decline.

Under normal economic conditions it probably is not feasible to consider potatoes as a feedstuff for poultry.

Producing 35% more onions of high quality 10 to 14 days earlier than conventional Yellow Bermudas, with fewer bolters, doubles and splits, off-colors and other undesirables, is the record of Yellow Bermuda 986.