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The claim that West Coast grain-fed beef is inferior in quality to eastern corn-fed beef is not supported by experimental evidence.

Cannery losses during the pitting and peeling of cling peaches substantially lessen the volume of fruit reaching the can. Reducing those losses would increase the canner's case yield per ton—a greater pack from a given quantity of peaches—and cannery costs could be reduced.

Sinkholes—crater-like openings, sometimes as big as 10′ to 15′ across and 10′ to 12′ deep—that suddenly appear in fields during irrigation not only waste water and make farming difficult but—most serious—are a hazard to machinery and operators.

Sloping seedbeds—to minimize the soil salinity hazard to germinating seeds—have been designed to permit conversion to normal flat-topped beds after the seedlings are established.

Good irrigation management includes minimizing water losses from farm ditches and reservoirs.

Cotton root-knot nematode—Meloidogyne incognita var. acrita—an be controlled by crop rotation, by summer fallow, by a combination of these two practices, or by preplanting fumigation of infested soil.

A serious disorder in trees of Eureka lemon on Troyer citrange—a hybrid of the trifoliate orange and the navel orange—rootstock was discovered in 1954 when all the Eureka tops in one of the experimental plots in Ventura County turned yellow, set a heavy crop of fruit, and declined markedly.

Low soil temperatures—causing low root temperatures—induced foliage wilt in glasshouse experiments with several citrus species on various rootstocks. At soil temperatures ranging from 48F to 62F and with plenty of moisture available, the foliage—especially succulent new growth—wilted, but plants having heat supplied to the roots did not wilt.

Establishment of productive legumes and grasses has been a primary goal in an experiment in band seeding forage plants on control burned land in the Cleveland National Forest in San Diego County.