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An aggregate look at California acreage, yield, and production of field crops; vegetables; and tree fruits, nuts, and grapes.

Hot water use in modern milking parlors for cleaning and sanitation of pipeline milking systems with their related equipment should average about .8 gallon per cow per day in California herds on a regional basis.

In field trials, BASF 352 treatments produced the least number of rotaffected Tioga and Tufts strawberries, and was one of the fungicides that most increased Tioga yield.

Seedling transplants were found to have many advantages over crown transplanting or direct seeding.

Although nematodes cannot be chemically eradicated over a large area, the correct quantity of fumigant, applied to the site of the nematodes, in a field that is in proper condition, may provide protection for 6 months t o 6 years.

Both methyl bromide and 1, 3-D nematicides applied to planting sites provided significantly improved growth duiing the first 2 years.

Quantity of methyl bromide, 1,3-D, and ethylene dibromide to be used in preplant fumigations is related to soil conditions.

Gas chromatography, observations of old roots, and the use of red worms as a bioassay tool are means of evaluating the degree of nematode control. Other commonly used methods are also evaluated.

The following is a summary of all gifts to the Division of Agricultural Sciences of the University of California for agricultural research during the period July 1, 1976 to June 30, 1977, by range of the amounts given or pledged.