Calag Archive

Tests with an experimental continuous spray-type seed treater newly developed at Davis have been completed. A pilot model of a design suitable for commercial production has been built and is now being operated in a plant where sugar beet seed is treated commercially.

In California less than 10% of the population is engaged in operating 140,000 farms—a condition representative of the United States.

Control of wireworms affecting certain vegetable and field crops now appears possible by means of an inexpensive method of treating the seeds with lindane before planting.

Between 50% and 70% of the soils in the major farming sections of California—from Siskiyou County in the north to Imperial County in the south—are deficient in available nitrogen.

Nonreinforced concrete irrigation pipe systems for the distribution of water on surface irrigated farms are in almost universal use in the south coastal basin of California.

About 30% of the irrigated lands of California receive their entire water supply from ground water and about three quarters of the cities, towns, water, and sewage districts in the state draw all or part of their requirements from the same source.

The following article is being reprinted from the November 1949 issue of California Agriculture to rectify the omission of an illustration important to the clarity of the content.

Differences in rate of growth, body weight, conformation, egg production, hatchability, and other characteristics of turkeys are of practical importance to the turkey grower and to the turkey breeder.

The following progress report is condensed from the full technical report to be published in a forthcoming issue of Journal of Biological Chemistry.

A technical experiment is covered by the following progress report. Users of organic phosphates, such as parathion, are urged to follow carefully established precautions for handling the material.