California Avocado Association
1937 Yearbook
Volume 22

Table of Contents

REPORTS ON VARIETIES AND SEEDLINGS
  1. Variety Check-List

  2. Registered Seedlings

  3. Meeting of the Variety Committee—March 12, 1937

  4. Report of the Variety Committee—Annual Meeting, May, 1937

  5. Variety Tests at Vista
    J. Eliot Coit

  6. Distribution of Varieties, Delivered to Calavo during 1936-37 Season

  7. Bibliography of Avocado Fruit Illustrations
    C. S. Pomeroy, U.S.D.A.

  8. Trend of Commercial Varieties during Past Fourteen Years
CULTURAL PRACTICES AND ORCHARD COSTS
  1. Avocado Fertilization
    Dean F. Palmer

  2. Avocado Cost Study Helps Grower Analyze Business
    Harold E. Wahlberg

  3. Questions and Answers, Avocado Institute

  4. Questions and Answers, Annual Meeting

  5. Joint Meeting and Open Forum of the California Avocado Association and Avocado Departments of County Farm Bureaus—Whittier, May 7, 1937
FREEZE—RESULTS OF
  1. Joint Meeting of Avocado Growers, La Habra—February 5, 1937

  2. Recovery of Avocado Trees from the Jan., 1937, Freeze
    F. F. Halma

  3. Lessons from the 1937 Freeze
    Floyd D. Young

  4. Marketing Avocados after the Freeze
    Geo. B. Hodgkin

  5. Effects of the Freeze on the Avocado
    J. Eliot Coit

  6. Avocado Standardization since the Freeze
    Harold J. Ryan

  7. Calavo Growers Offset Many Freeze Troubles

  8. Protecting Avocados by Heating
    Warren R. Schoonover
Results and Observations on Pruning and Rebuilding Methods Following the Freeze
  1. M. B. Rounds

  2. Vincent Blanchard

  3. Jean Miller

  4. Harold Wahlberg
Variety Observations Following the Freeze
  1. Elwood Trask

  2. H. E. Marsh

  3. Albert Adams

  4. Vincent Blanchard
EXPERIMENTS AND RESEARCH REPORTS
  1. Germinating Power of Avocado Seed from Frost Injured Fruit
    E. R. Eggers

  2. The University's Research Program on the Avocado
    Robert W. Hodgson

  3. Girdling to Induce Bearing in the Fuerte
    Robert W. Hodgson and S. H. Cameron

  4. Dothiorella Fungus in Frozen Avocado Trees
    Wm. T. Horne

  5. Effect of Fertilization, Ringing, Blossoming and Fruiting on the Nitrogen Content of Avocado Leaves
    S. H. Cameron and J. Bialoglowski

  6. Atmospheric HCN Fumigation for Latania Scale on Avocado Fruits
    D. L. Lindgren and H. L. McKenzie (Conclusions)

  7. Distribution of Inorganic Constituents in Avocado Fruits
    A. R. C. Haas

  8. Chemical Composition of Avocado Fruits
    A. R. C. Haas

  9. Propagation of the Fuerte Avocado by Means of Leafy-Twig Cuttings
    A. R. C. Haas

  10. Rooting Avocado Cuttings
    E. R. Eggers and F. F. Halma

  11. Further Progress in the Rooting of Fuerte Avocado Cuttings
    A. R. C. Haas
GENERAL INDUSTRY ARTICLES—HISTORY AND REPORTS
  1. Using the Refractometer to Quickly Determine the Percentage of Oil in Avocados
    A. W. Christie

  2. Modern Food Trends
    Ann Martin

  3. A Book on the Avocado
    Ira J. Condit

  4. Twelfth Annual Avocado Show, Report of
    Ernest Braunton

  5. The Avocado and the Farm Bureau
    R. W. Blackburn

  6. American Farm Bureau Members Made Avocado Conscious

  7. Twenty-Five Years Experience with Avocados
    Wm. Hertrich

  8. Avocados in Los Angeles County
    M. B. Rounds

  9. Reports on the Avocado Situation in Brazil
    Dr. Fawcett

  10. Avocados in the Mediterranean

  11. Louisiana Now Grows Avocados

  12. The Status of the Avocado Industry
    M. B. Rounds

  13. Avocado Committee, California Farm Bureau Federation
    F. D. Halma

  14. Cooperative Marketing Essay Contest

  15. Recent Travels and Observations in India and Egypt
    Robert W. Hodgson
MEXICAN COMMEMORATION
  1. Mexico Trains Farm Leaders

  2. Avocado Growers to Visit Mexico (Proposal Given at Annual Meeting)

  3. Avocado Growers Will Visit Parent Fuerte Tree in Mexico

  4. Final Plans for LeBlanc Ceremony
PHOTOGRAPHS AND PERSONALITIES
  1. Charles Jay Daily—In Appreciation

  2. Recovery of Frozen Trees
THE ASSOCIATION
  1. Officers and Directors

  2. Past Presidents

  3. Annual Meeting Program

  4. Minutes of Annual Meeting

  5. Resolutions In Appreciation at Annual Meeting

  6. Financial Statement

  7. By-Laws of the California Avocado Association

  8. Membership List

  9. Advertisements

  10. President's Annual Report

  11. Annual Meeting—Address of Welcome
    L. C. Nanney

  12. Need for Increased Membership
    Carter Barrett

  13. Annual Dinner Program (Introductions)
MARKETING
  1. Calavo Annual Report

  2. The History of Calavo-Subtropic Fruit Co.
    Edwin Humason

  3. Operations of the General Sales Department
    Edwin Humason

  4. Regulations for Marketing Avocados in California
    Harry W. Roche

  5. Marketing Avocados after the Freeze
    Geo. B. Hodgkin