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Long time studies indicate that uncontrolled brush and forest fires profoundly affect soils, plant cover and water, as well as destroying man made structures and interfering with management plans for farms, forests and industries.

Hard seeds have seed coats which retard the entrance of moisture into the seed. Seeds with hard coats are slow to swell. Since water is necessary for germination seeds do not germinate so long as they remain hard.

Cattle grubs cause an annual national loss of $50,000,000 to $100,000,000 to the livestock and dairy-industry according to estimates of the United States Department of Agriculture.

Symptoms of ketosis in dairy cows—in many cases—are almost identical to those of milk fever.

Irrigated pastures in California have increased to about 400,000 acres in approximately 15 years.

Accurate description of each lot of fruit and vegetables sent to marketing and processing organizations is necessary if each grower is to be paid what his product is worth.

Blocks of large orange trees now producing unsatisfactory crops—running largely to small sizes—are a problem in some of the older citrus growing districts of California.

New mechanized production techniques are being developed and adopted in the growing of seedlings because the damping-off disease now can be practically eliminated in commercial nurseries.

Reduced yields of oil olives the year following the season when the fruit is harvested late—in January and February—were izidicated by studies made in Tulare County several years ago.

Haavy damage to the prune crops of a number of Santa Clara Valley orchards has been caused by the bud moth—Spilonola ocellana—during the past few seasons.

Exocortis—a shelling of the bark of the trifoliate orange—has been noted occasionaly for many years, but hitherto has been considered a minor manifestation on this stock.

Commercial cut flower production in 1947 in California's more important flower-growing counties was estimated to be in excess of $25,000,000.