Calag Archive

The nonvolatile organic acids of fruit, vegetable and plant extracts can be determined by a simple, sensitive, and comparatively rapid method.

Organic matter from winter cover-crops or other sources increased orange yields in an experimental orchard at Riverside.

Boysenberry and youngberry plants are most likely to respond to nitrogen.

Pear molasses and pear pulp are two by-product feeds–highly palatable to sheep and cattle–which recently became available to the livestock industry.

The consperse stink bug–Euschistus conspersus Uhler–caused considerable loss of pears at harvest during the past two fruit seasons.

A new type of corrugated carton, used for lemon shipments, saves from 34¢ to 45¢ per standard box.

Soil temperatures in Kern County potato fields average from 60° F to 70° F at 6” depth, with foliage cooling the soil about 8° F, and irrigation some 4° F.

Most breeders of chickens who start with average or below-average commercial flocks have little difficulty in obtaining improvement by selection of economic characters.