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The average in wheat yield today in California is almost 25 per cent greater than it was during the four decades prior to the beginning of wheat research work done by the College of Agriculture, in 1904, and practically the entire wheat acreage in the state is planted to varieties which were bred and improved by the Division of Agronomy.

With a record of kills as high as 85 per cent, an army of 23 million has aided in California's battle against the dread Oriental fruit moth.

An extract from a new Agricultural Extension Service Circular, California Beef Production, now in the process of publication. Until the release of this circular, the information quoted, in part, here is available only in the limited publication of the National Research Council.

It wasn't so very long ago that “chicken feed” meant something of little or no value, some feed that was given to chickens in the hope that eventually a chicken dinner might result. But when you pass off something as “just chicken feed” today, you may not mean what you say.

Research in recent years has demonstrated that at least one form of mastitis can be cured.

In one inclusive volume about soils crops, livestock, and the protection of plants and animals from pests and diseases, the authors—and there are several—trace the history of, and discuss the social and economic development, of California's agriculture from the time of the arrival at San Diego in 1769 of the original cattle herd to the current production of more than 200 commercially important crops.