CONTENTS 



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 PRUNING THE APPLE WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO SUMMER 



WORK W. H. VoLCK 3S5 



WINTER PRUNING OF THE APPLE __Geo. P. Weldon 390 



EXPERIMENTS WITH COVER CROPS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 



W. M. Mektz 398 



SELLING GREEN ORANGES— 2 -_J. Eliot Coit 404 



THE POTATO EMERGENCY CONVENTION ,407 



CROP REPORT AND STATISTICS Geo. P. Weldon 419 



GENERAL NOTES— 



Sound Potato Seed— Why NctV__^ A. J. Cook 420 



Aid of County Horticultural Commissioners 421 



A Broader Viewpoint Frederick Maskew 421 



The Fresno County Fair A. J. Cook 422 



Birds Attacking Butterflies A. J. Cook 422 



California Fruit Growers" Exchange A. J. Cook 422 



Proposed Bill foi: the Standardization of California Fresh Fruits 424 



Potato Production E. J. Vosler 42o 



Foreign Shipments 420 



The W^alnut Crop 420 



Fruit Shipments ^ 420 



Farmers' Protective League 420 



Kerosene-Lime Emulsion for Plant Lice _ E. J. Tosler 427 



The Grape 427 



Fruit Drying in British Columbia 427 



The Olive Outlook E. J. Vosler 427 



The Olive Growers Organize 427 



Plant Lice Affecting the Walnut in California E. J. Vosler 427 



Spores Carried ry Birds A. J. Cook 428 



Bud Selection A. J. Cook 428 



Meeting of Pear Growers 429 



PROGRAM CALIFORNIA STATE FRUIT GROWERS' CONVENTION— . 430 



COUNTY COMMISSIONERS' DEPARTMENT— 



County Horticultural Commissioners. Their Deputies and Inspec- 

 tors Geo. P. Weldon 434 



Statistics on Olive Production F. C. Broslus 430 



Cost of Production of Olives in Sacramento Ccunty F. C. Brosius 437 



A GOOD ANT EXTERMINATOR D- L- Crawford 438 



THE DATE SCALES A. J. Cook 440 



CALENDAR OF INSECT PESTS AND PLANT DISEASES— E. J. Vosler 442 



INSECT NOTES 445 



•QUARANTINE DIVISION— 



Report for the Month of August. 1914 Frederick Masketv 440 



