California Avocado Association
1940 Yearbook
Volume 25

Table of Contents

REPORTS ON VARIETIES AND SEEDLINGS
  1. Variety List for 1940

  2. Registration of Seedling Avocados

  3. Seedlings Registered with the Association

  4. Report of the Variety Committee, Annual Meeting, May, 1940

  5. Distribution of Varieties as Delivered to Calavo
CULTURAL PRACTICES AND ORCHARD COSTS
  1. Size of the Avocado Orchard—Income Factor
    Harold E. Wahlberg

  2. Portable Undertree Sprinkler Systems
    Arthur F. Pillsbury

  3. Care of Avocado Grafts
    E. O. Stromberg

  4. Planting Distances for Avocados
    M. B. Rounds
EXPERIMENTS AND RESEARCH REPORTS
  1. Avocado Research at the University of California
    R. W. Hodgson

  2. Floral Abnormality in the Avocado
    C. A. Schroeder

  3. The Dying Back of Avocado Trees in Southern California
    Vincent A. Wager

  4. Rootstocks for the Oriental Persimmon
    R. W. Hodgson

  5. Avocado Tree Decline
    Kenneth Smoyer

  6. Avocado Tree Root Development
    J. Eliot Coit

  7. Avocado Bibliography
    Dr. Ira J. Condit

  8. Importance of Root Aeration of Avocado and Citrus Trees
    A. R. C. Haas

  9. Experiments in Fruit Cluster Thinning of the Loquat
    R. W. Hodgson and E. R. Eggers

  10. Mango Trials
    Capt. L. L. Bucklew
GENERAL INDUSTRY ARTICLES
  1. Cooperative Marketing Education
    A. J. Schrepfer

  2. More Regularity of Production Necessary
    Vincent F. Blanchard

  3. Selling Avocados in Eastern Markets
    A. J. Thille

  4. The Outlook for Avocados
    Wm. F. Cowan
AVOCADOS IN FLORIDA AND FOREIGN LANDS
  1. Romance of the Avocado in Obera, Misiones, Argentina
    Dr. Constantin Issacovich

  2. Correspondence Survey of Florida Avocado and Lime Industries
    James G. France

  3. The Avocado in South Africa
    J. C. Le Roux

  4. A Letter from Africa
    P. Gordon Deedes
THE ASSOCIATION
  1. Annual Report of President Christie

  2. Highlights of 25th Annual Meeting at San Diego

  3. Twenty-fifth Annual Dinner of the Association, May 11, 1940

  4. Resolutions for 1940

  5. Resolution Adopted by Board of Directors of Calavo Growers on the Death of Edwin G Hart, first President of the Association

  6. Judging Rules for Avocado Show

  7. MEMBERSHIP LIST
ILLUSTRATIONS
Frontispiece: William Hertrich
  1. In Appreciation

  2. Floral Abnormality in the Avocado
    C. A. Schroeder

  3. Soil Fungus Effects
    Vincent A. Wager

  4. Avocado Tree Root Development
    J. Eliot Coit

  5. Examining the Itzamna

  6. Clearing the Forest in Argentina

  7. Avocado Seedlings for Rootstock

  8. Avocado Orchard in Argentina

  9. Effect of Aeration on Root Growth
    A. R. C. Haas

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