Calag Archive

Rose clover—Trifolium hirtum All.—a forage legume recently imported to California responds favorably to the grazing treatment recommended for established perennial and desirable annual forage plants.

Approximately half of the 25,000-acre 1951 canning tomato crop in Yolo County was field seeded. Field seeding was first tried in Yolo County in 1946.

Immediate reductions in labor requirements and the cost of harvesting canning tomtoes—by 20% to 30%—are possible.

California farmers operate a highly commercialized business. In 1951 they took in an average of around $18,000 per farm and paid out a large portion of it in operating costs, for capital items, and in personal income taxes.

The first of two articles on quick decline as influenced by top-root relationships

Citrus growers in San Diego County have a very good chance—possibly the best chance of any citrus area—of obtaining biological control of the California red scale, Aonidiella aurantii (Mask.).

Lemon decline—a deterioration of trees—shortens the period of their usefulness.

Two widely used brooding methods—radiant heat panels and infrared lamps—were tested in the winter and fall of 1951 on the University of California Poultry Farm at Davis.

A fungus disease reduces the overwintering population of the codling moth in some northern California walnut orchards.