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The local ofice of the Farm Advisor should be consulted as to types of seed to use, the best times for seeding, and the progress of reseeding studies not yet completed. See: “Klamath Weed Beetles” by J. K. Holloway and C. B. Huffaker, California Agriculture, February, 1949, page 3.

Since 1945, large government subsidies have been the only thing that has kept California grape prices and growers' incomes from being wrecked by the loss of most of the state's large prewar commercial raisin exports to Europe.

New synthetic organic insecticides for controlling citrus insects and mites require proving upon the individual species because of the remarkable degree of specificity shown by the compounds.

The peat soils of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta are disappearing at a measurable rate—averaging slightly more than three inches a year—and there is no indication that the rate is decreasing.

Varieties of cultivated tobacco are almost invariably susceptible to mosaic, a virus disease, which also may infect tomatoes and some other crop plants.

Local experience on the results of hormone treatment can be obtained from the Farm Advisors' ofices. Staff members of those ofices coiiperated in the studies reported here.

The 1948 season marked the end of the second year in which DDT and DDD insecticides were used extensively for the control of insects attacking tomatoes.

Simple and convenient methods for preservative treatment of redwood, Douglas fir and eucalyptus wood were tested with a total of seven different oils and chemicals in a 12-year study at Davis.

After walnut trees come into leaf they draw heavily upon the available supply of soil moisture.

Yeast culture is being used as a poultry feedstuff in sections of southern California as part of the constant attempt to increase efficiencies of meat and egg production.

Fluid milk must be produced near the point of consumer markets.