Calag Archive

Range fertilization experimental plots gave greatly increased yields during the past season–without additional fertilizer since the unfavorable growing season of 1949.

Part I of a two-part progress report on response of lemon trees to phosphate fertilization.

Plow type application of soil fumigante proved more effective than chisel type application in sugar-beet nematode control tests in light soil near San Juan but treatment was relatively expensive.

Orchid growing in California is a multi-million dollar industry and in the process of expansion.

Deciduous fruit and nuts crops of northern California probably will be below normal in 1951.

Spider mites are found frequently in large numbers on the foliage of walnuts in northern California.

This research work was conducted in co-operation with the Bureau of Agricultural Economics and the Production and Marketing Administration, United States Department of Agriculture as part of Western Regional Marketing Project, WM-7. It was financed partly by funds appropriated under the Research and Marketing Act of 1946

It is of practical importance to the tomato grower and processor that the tomato or its product shall have a typical, readily identifiable color associated with an accustomed standard for tomatoes. The original tomato may have such a characteristic color, but the processed product may not. This is particularly true in products containing a percentage of oily or fatty nontomato ingredients, where owing to extraction of a high proportion of tomato pigments, the color of the tomato fraction appears untypically orange.