California Avocado Association
1931 Yearbook
Volume 16

Table of Contents

  1. Officers and Directors

  2. Past Presidents

  3. Programs of Association
VARIETIES
  1. Registration of Seedling Avocados

  2. Check List

  3. Report of Committee on Varieties

  4. Variety Scores for 1931

  5. Questions, Answers, and Comments on Variety Report

  6. Comments on Varieties
    C. V. Newman

  7. Mexican Exploration

  8. Report on Varieties of Hawaii
    Dr. W. D. Baldwin

  9. ROOTSTOCK

  10. BUDDING, GRAFTING, TOPWORKING
PLANTING
  1. The Home Garden
    Dr. J. Eliot Coit

  2. Questions and Answers

  3. CULTIVATION—MULCH
IRRIGATION—DRAINAGE
  1. The Soil as a Reservoir for Water
    J. B. Brown

  2. Questions, Answers, and Comments
FERTILIZER PRACTICES
  1. Avocado Orchard Fertilization
    M. B. Rounds

  2. Intelligent Use of Fertilizer
    J. G. France

  3. Questions, Answers, and Comments
PRUNING, THINNING, GIRDLING
  1. Pruning the Avocado
    C. V. Newman

  2. Questions, Answers, and Comments
PESTS, DISEASES, and CONTROL METHODS
  1. Pest Control
    R. R. McLean

  2. Progress Report, March 6, 1931, on Avocado Disease Investigations,
    Wm. T. Horne, Citrus Experiment Station

  3. Questions, Answers, and Comments

  4. Dothiorella Rot
    R. R. McLean

  5. Summary of State Dictyospermum Scale Survey
    D. B. Mackie

  6. Control of Latania Scale

  7. How the Whittier Laboratory Can Be of Service to the Avocado Industry
    Dr. F. R. Cole

  8. Diseases of the Avocado
    C. W. Carpenter
SETTING OF FRUIT—POLLINATION
  1. Some Aberrant Forms of Flower Mechanism in the Avocado
    T. Ralph Robinson

  2. Questions, Answers, and Comments

  3. MATURITY

  4. PICKING
GENERAL CULTURE
  1. Principles of Tree Growth
    James G. France

  2. Some Ideas of Avocado Culture
    T. U. Barber

  3. The Balanced Care of an Avocado Tree
    W. L. McCulloch

  4. Essentials in Avocado Culture
    Harold E. Wahlberg
COSTS AND YIELDS
  1. Normal Costs in Growing Avocados
    Harold Wahlberg

  2. Questions, Answers, and Comments
MARKETING
  1. The Grower—The Market (Cartoon by Adeltha Peterson)

  2. A Market Found
    Carlyle Thorpe

  3. The Outlook for Calavos
    George B. Hodgkin

  4. Eighth Annual Report of Calavo Growers

  5. The Calavo Industry
    Adeltha Peterson

  6. Selling the 1931-32 Crop
    E. H. Humason

  7. NUTRITION
HISTORY
  1. C. P. Taft
    Wm. McPherson

  2. Association History
    E. C. Dutton

  3. The Pioneers in the Avocado Industry
    Adeltha Peterson

  4. Where Are We Headed For?
    Geo. B. Hodgkin

  5. The Avocado in South Africa

  6. The Annual Meeting and Reports

  7. President's Address

  8. By-Laws

  9. Membership List

  10. Advertisers Index