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The value of the almond crop, and the basis of returns to growers—averaged for 1943, 1944, and 1945—place the almond seventh, on the list of all California deciduous tree fruits and nuts.

A new organic compound—officially named Parathion by the United States government, and known chemically as O, O-diethyl-O-p-nitrophenyl-thiophosphate and to research field men as 3422—was tested last season on deciduous fruit trees with excellent success.

It is more difficult to grow good trees on old citrus soil than on soil which has never been cropped to citrus.

Seedless Calimyrna figs may be produced without the use of male or caprifigs, by spraying the trees with a solution of indolebutyric acid at caprification—pollination—time.

The infiltration of the Oriental fruit moth into California was discovered in the peach orchards of Orange County in 1942.

On grafted avocado trees, long-tailed mealybugs are an important problem.

A gain in weight of one pound daily, from weaning until the next green forage season, is a desirable-objective if calves are to be sold as yearling feeders, or are to be carried over for grass finish at two years of age.

Results obtained in the Coachella Valley with DDT for the control of citrus thrips indicated that DDT gave poorer control than standard nicotine-sugar sprays.

The Oriental fruit moth does its greatest damage to the peach, although other deciduous fruits, such as quince, nectarine, apricot, plum, cherry, apple, pear, and almond, are also attacked.

Soil analysis almost never furnishes a direct answer to a California soil problem.

A power-operated soil sampler now does the drudgery in soil surveying—the mechanical job of extracting soil samples which are required by the thousands for an adequate map of a survey area.