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The economics of chemical control of range brush revolve around the price of effective chemicals, the cost of application, and the relative value of the land after the brush has been killed and removed.

The most important link in the chain of fruit production is the fruit variety.

The grain of the awned varieties of Baart wheat and of Onas wheat weighs about one pound per bushel more than the grain of the awnless varieties.

Brown almond mite infestations in almond orchards decline in early summer.

Control of the codling moth on susceptible varieties of walnuts usually requires spray applications each year.

Stump grafting old seedling type orange trees was successful in San Bernardino County in 1949—with expectation of reasonable production of fruit within five years.

Zineb spray is the best fungicide yet tried for the control of the downy mildews of spinach, beets, lettuce, and hops.

The spread of the root systems of Royal apricot trees on apricot root is evidenced by the above photograph.

The following article is based upon extracts from reports of research on sugar beets conducted in the College of Agriculture by the Department of Home Economics and the Divisions of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Engineering, Agronomy, Animal Husbandry, Botany, Dairy Industry, Entomology, Food Technology, Irrigation, Parasitology, Plant Nutrition, Plant Pathology, Poultry Husbandry, Soils, and Zoology. The successful application to commercial sugar beet growing of the research reported herein is due to the co-operation of sugar processors, local growers and the United States Department of Agriculture with the University of California. The controlled environment laboratory equipment study is being conducted through the co-operation of the California Institute of Technology, the Beet Sugar Development Foundation, and the Earhart Plant Research Laboratory in Pasadena.