Calag Archive

The following article is a condensation of a progress report on a Motion and Time Study of the Methods of Harvesting Raisin Grapes, conducted by members of the University of California's Division of Mechanical Engineering, with the coüperatwn of Dr. H. R. Wellman, Director of the Giannini Foundation, College of Agriculture Experiment Station, Berkeley, and N. D. Hudson and R. A. Break, College of Agriculture Extension Service, Fresno County.

Radioactive sulfur tracers and a Geiger counter were used at the Riverside Experiment Station in investigations made to learn how sulfur burns citrus fruits—so sulfur could be safened.

B. R. Houston, Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology and Assistant Plant Pathologist the Experiment Station, Davis, is coüperating this development program.

Of all the new chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticides, DDT has been the one investigated most thoroughly—and despite a vast amount of research, all of its limitations have not been ascertained.

The study initiated in January 1947 was a coüperative project between the Research Department of the California Fruit Growers Exchange, Ontario, and the Division of Plant Physiology of the University of California Citrus Experiment Station, Riverside.

All problems in dairy cattle nutrition can not be solved merely by furnishing the proper nutrients in the proper amounts. Other factors such as palatability, suitability, and economy must always be considered.

California's dairy industry leads all other states in the number and proportion of cows being tested—with more than 153,000 cows, or 17% of her cow population, in dairy-herd-improvement association work

Some of the 40,000 tons of almond hulls produced annually in California—as a by-product in the process of hulling almonds—are fed to dairy cattle, sheep, and milk goats.

Pomegranate growers in a section some five miles north of Porterville in Tulare County began about six years ago to notice a russeting and cracking of the peel of pomegranate fruits in some orchards.

Chickens and turkeys normally feed on grains, vegetation and meat but under certain conditions they may become meat eaters to the extent of being cannibalistic.

Pre-emergent or post-emergent spraying with 2,4-D for control of weeds in field corn may reduce cultivation to a minimum.