California Avocado Association
1932 Yearbook
Volume 17

Table of Contents

  1. Officers and Directors

  2. Past Presidents

  3. Calendar of Activities
VARIETIES
  1. Check List

  2. Variety Scores for 1932

  3. Marketability of Varieties

  4. Report of Committee on Varieties

  5. Avocado Varieties
    Dr. J. Eliot Coit

  6. Registration of Seedling Avocados

  7. Descriptive list of seedlings registered

  8. Varieties in Florida
PESTS, DISEASES, AND CONTROL METHODS
  1. Latest Developments in Avocado Disease Control
    Wm. T. Horne, Citrus Experiment Station

  2. Trend of Avocado Pests and their Control
    H. J. Quayle, Citrus Experiment Station

  3. Control of Avocado Scale
    H. J. Quayle, Citrus Experiment Station

  4. Description of Spraying Experiments (Dothiorella Disease)
    Dean F. Palmer, Agricultural Inspector, Carlsbad

  5. Progress Report on Avocado Insect Pest Investigations
    H. J. Quayle, Citrus Experiment Station

  6. Effects of Chlorides in the Soil on Avocado Trees
    E. E. Thomas, Citrus Experiment Station

  7. Transmission of Avocado Sun-Blotch
    E. R. Parker and Wm. T. Horne, Citrus Experiment Station

  8. State Plant Quarantine Service and the California Avocado Grower
    A. C. Fleury, Chief Quarantine Officer
CULTURAL
  1. Avocado Cost & Efficiency Study in Orange County for 1931
    Harold E. Wahlberg, Farm Advisor

  2. Status of the Avocado Industry in San Diego County
    James G. France, Farm Advisor

  3. Status of the Avocado in Los Angeles County
    Marvin B. Rounds, Farm Advisor

  4. Status of the Avocado Industry in Ventura County
    Vincent F. Blanchard, Farm Advisor

  5. Report of Special Meeting at Citrus Experiment Station, Riverside

  6. Problems of the Avocado Industry
    James G. France, Farm Advisor

  7. Future Profitable Orchard
    Carter Barrett, Avocado Specialist

  8. Yields in Relation to Profitable Avocado Culture
    James G. France

  9. Avocado Culture Calls for Work and Good Judgment
    Dean F. Palmer, Agricultural Inspector at Carlsbad

  10. What the Farm Bureau Can Do for the Avocado Grower
    Roy K. Cole

  11. Top-Grafting the Avocado Tree
    G. R. Calkins
MARKETING
  1. Market Outlook for Avocados
    Edwin Humason, Calavo Growers

  2. How to Buy Avocados
    J. O. Strasser, Calavo Growers

  3. Calavo By-Products
    Richard F. Eaton, Calavo Growers

  4. Marketing California Specialties
    F. R. Wilcox, Extension Specialist in Marketing, University of California

  5. Fundamental Changes in the Marketing of Agricultural Products
    R. W. Gray, Division of Markets, State Department of Agriculture

  6. Report of an Investigation of Calavo Sales and Merchandising Policies
    Dr. E. A. Stokdyk

  7. Calavo Ninth Annual Report
MISCELLANEOUS
  1. The Avocado in Hawaii
    Dr. W. D. Baldwin

  2. Hawaii Yearns for Mainland Markets
    Jared G. Smith

  3. Avocado Growing in Hawaii

  4. Present Status of Tariff as Pertains to Avocados

  5. Protecting the Avocado Grower from Thievery
    Capt. Howard Brooks

  6. Los Angeles County Farm Bureau organizes Avocado Department

  7. Report of Meeting of Inter-County Avocado Departments, Farm Bureau, concerning control of avocado thefts

  8. Sex in Avocados, and Pollination
    Dr. A. B. Stout

  9. Seventh Annual California. Avocado Show

  10. Some Questions Answered, by the California Avocado Association and Calavo Growers
HISTORY
  1. Hunting Avocados
    Wilson Popenoe

  2. Romance of Calavo
    Adeltha Peterson

  3. Myer Edward Jaffa, An Appreciation

  4. In Retrospect
    Dr. J. Eliot Coit

  5. The Annual Meeting and Reports

  6. President's Address

  7. By-Laws

  8. Membership List

  9. Advertisers Index