Calag Archive

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.

A yearly spray program is a necessity if the average apricot grower is to produce clean fruit—especially in the Santa Clara Valley where the codling moth and orange tortrix have become of primary importance.

Recent investigations tested the possibility of incorporating various new miticides for the control of the brown mite— Bryobia praetiosa K.—in the usual sprays applied to almonds and peaches in the pink-bud period.

Berry size of Thompson Seedless and other seedless grape varieties was increased by spray application of a growth regulator.

Nucellar-seedling lines of citrus showed substantially greater tree size and yields in nearly every case, when compared with old-line trees in a study at Riverside.

Stem pitting—a symptom of quick decline—was first observed in California citrus orchards in 1952.

Part VII of a series of reports of studies on the effects of packing-house equipment, plant layout, and work methods on efficiency and costs. These studies have been made co-operatively by the University of California Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics, and the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, United States Department of Agriculture, under the authority of the Research and Marketing Act.

The fourth of a series of reports of a survey on the consumption of dairy products in urban areas of California made co-operatively by the Department of Home Economics, University of California, California State Department of Agriculture, and United States Department of Agriculture under the authority of the Research and Marketing Act