. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Tin* Lean \ulonK)tic- Oicliard Disc, which is attracting a good (l(';il ot atlention in Ciiliiornia. w lu'i i- it is being tried out extensively. In this iUitslin- lion the disc is being pulled by llie l-"ordson tracloi-, for which it was designed. R. L. Nougaret was recently appointed by Director Hecke to take charge of the Viticul- tural office of the new Department of Agri- culture. Mr. Nougaret has had a wide ex- perience in this line and is looked upon as a very valuable addition to the staff of the de- partment. The experiment of shipping lad
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Tin* Lean \ulonK)tic- Oicliard Disc, which is attracting a good (l(';il ot atlention in Ciiliiornia. w lu'i i- it is being tried out extensively. In this iUitslin- lion the disc is being pulled by llie l-"ordson tracloi-, for which it was designed. R. L. Nougaret was recently appointed by Director Hecke to take charge of the Viticul- tural office of the new Department of Agri- culture. Mr. Nougaret has had a wide ex- perience in this line and is looked upon as a very valuable addition to the staff of the de- partment. The experiment of shipping ladybugs to Modesto from Tuolumne county will lie tried for commercial purposes the latter part of this week, when f(uir sacks will arrive for distri- bution to bean growers at $ per sack. If the bugs are in good condition, arrangements will be made for shipments in larger lots. Assistant l-\\rin Adviser Roy D. McCalluni re- turned from the strawberry section last week, after having arranged with George Conlin to ship ladybugs to Stanislaus farmers. He also brought back 3^ sacks of bugs, which will be distributed in the bean fields where the lilack aphids are numerous. McCallum inspected a number of fields where the bugs were used and found the aphids completely destroyed. About a sack and a half to five acres are required to combat the pests. California is rapidly becoming the "greatest home in the world for peaches," according to a statement made at Riverside by Homer B, Fairchild, promological expert with the De- partment of Agriculture, at Washington, D. C. "The peach crop of An-erica this year will not be more than ,'50,000,000 ; said Mr. Fairchild, "and of that amount California will produce 10,000,000 bushels. What with peach yellows and curly leaf, Delaware, Michigan, Ohio and parts of Indiana and New Jersey will not have a quarter of the crops they used to have, while California has an immense field and the demand is proportionately la
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