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Volume 24, Number 12
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Experimental UC boysenberry harvester instantly freezes boysenberries right off the vine producing clean fruit ready for packaging.
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Retrieving sample container during Glenn County studies of dry matter losses in corn silage during storage.
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"Rusty rib" visible on Climax variety of head lettuce (A) above left - after seven days of storag at 35* F - contrasts sharply with resistant varieties: Forty-Niner (B) above right, Golden State D (C) below left, and Vanguard (D) below right - all showing no symptoms. Use of resistant varieties appears to be the only way to avoid this disorder, as well as "internal rib necrosis," both of which were serious problems for Imperial Valley lettuce growers during the last two winter seasons.
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Effects of mud, wind, and rain on production of beef cattle in the feedlot is reported from recent tests in the Central Valley.
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Hand planting of lettuce seed to precise measurement, as shown in photo to
right, was part of a desert-area testing program for seedling emergence from clay-coated and vermiculite-encapsulated seed.
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Ponderosu Pine test plot in the Coast Range, Lake County, was thinned in 1952 and has shown no forest debris accumulation since then.
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Parasitoid to right, feeding on eye gnat larvae, is Eupteromalus hemipterus (Walker), one of several native species that aid in control of the pest.
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Good nutrition means good food and the purpose of ENEP - Agricultural Extension Service’s Expanded Nutrition Education Program - is to attack malnutrition nationwide with instruction for low-income groups on healthful eating habits. “Taste-ins” and “mini-gardens” help put across the story of ENEP-Youth program.
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Experiments with laboratory mini-streams at U.C. Davis are yielding needed information on the pollution tolerance of fish and the food chain involved in aquatic life
December 1970
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