Report of the Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of California1924 - Agriculture |
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Page 1 - May 14, 1921. In effect July 29, 1921). The People of the State of California do enact as follows: Section 1. A new section is hereby added to the Penal Code, to be numbered three hundred eighty-four a, and to read as follows: 384a. Any person, firm or corporation is guilty of a misdemeanor — (a) Who mutilates or destroys any Toyon or Christmas red-berry tree (Heterorneles...
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Page 4 - I pick what has fallen without knocking. I then tap those limbs lightly on which the nuts are ripest, and the third time over I aim to clean the trees. The walnuts are picked up and put in sacks and barrels, so as to be easily handled and hauled to a sunny place to dry, and should be placed on elevated platforms made of narrow boards, with spaces of one fourth of an inch between each board. The platform should be about eight feet wide and forty feet long, or as long as two men can handle a canvas...
Page 9 - Dean of the College of Agriculture, Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station, and Professor of...
Page 8 - Others claim that it makes them so ; but be this as it may, those having large orchards cannot depend on drying all by natural heat, and the drier will have to be used, even if it is not so good for the nut." *"In handling the nuts, I cure in dry-houses by artificial heat, heating sufficient to evaporate the water and set the oil of the nut. When this is done the nuts will keep sweet for an indefinite time. I have kept them as an experiment, in my store-house, which is of concrete, for five years,...
Page 1 - Juglans regia." 281. 262. Citrus Diseases of Florida and Cuba Compared with Those of California.
Page 3 - i. In West Virginia and Michigan, and probably in other parts of the East, unsatisfactory results may be expected from planting either Bartlett or Kieffer in large blocks, so that cross-pollination by insects is not general. "2. Anjou, Lawrence, Duchess, and Kieffer, are satisfactory varieties for planting with Bartlett, so far as pollination is concerned. Some years Kieffer does not blossom simultaneously with Bartlett, but usually the blossoming seasons overlap sufficiently. " 3. LeConte, Garber,...
Page 7 - ... there are several factors in the production of any crop, including labor, capital, and land ; and that the amount of the crop is not determined by any one or any two of these factors, but by all of them combined. Labor and capital, being only a part of the factors, cannot alone determine the crop. It is well known to practical men that a niggardly application of labor and capital to a piece of land in the cultivation of any crop is little better than wasted, because it will produce so little...
Page 13 - Second-foot" means a flow of one cubic foot of water per second of time passing a given point ; 13. "Acre-foot...