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California Agriculture, July 1952

Volume 6, Number 7
Forage plants on California ranges

research articles

California range plants: Key to improvement is knowledge and proper use of three easily distinguishable types of range plants
by Merton R. Love , Dorman C. Sumner
pp3-14, doi#10.3733/ca.v006n07p3
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Dustywings on citrus: These natural enemies of mites and scales may be helped by miticides but are killed by insecticides
by C. A. Fleschner
pp4, doi#10.3733/ca.v006n07p4
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Fumigation of walnuts: Southern California packing house tests show control of navel orangeworm and Mediterranean flour moth larvae
by Paul D. Gerhardt , David L. Lindgren , Walton B. Sinclair
pp5-14, doi#10.3733/ca.v006n07p5
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Packaging meat for lockers: Wrapping time cut 42% in pilot time-and-motion study of practices of frozen food locker operators
by Louis E. Davis , Richard A. Marks
pp6, doi#10.3733/ca.v006n07p6
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Efficiency in fruit marketing: Grading costs may be reduced about 25% for pears and over 50% for apples by applying operating standards
by R. G. Bressler , B. C. French
pp7-10, doi#10.3733/ca.v006n07p7
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Avocado variety trials: Progress report describes tree and fruit characteristics of four most promising varieties in test at Riverside
by M. M. Winslow
pp9-15, doi#10.3733/ca.v006n07p9
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Stink bug on tomatoes: Injury and its prevention investigated in last season's outbreak in Yolo and Sacramento counties
by A. E. Michelbacher , W. W. Middlekauff , O. G. Bacon
pp11-12, doi#10.3733/ca.v006n07p11
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Oriental fruitfly parasites: Biological control of damaging pest established in Hawaii diminishes threat to mainland's fruit production
by Robert Van Den Bosch
pp13-14, doi#10.3733/ca.v006n07p13
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Organic wastes for mulch: Waste from packing houses processing organic materials studied for possible agricultural use
by E. L. Proebsting
pp15-16, doi#10.3733/ca.v006n07p15
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General Information

State's productive capacity: California's agricultural productive capacity attainable in 1955 projected from findings of federal-state survey
by Trimble R. Hedges, Warren R. Bailey
pp2-12, doi#10.3733/ca.v006n07p2
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