California Avocado Society
1971-1972 Yearbook
Volume 55

Table of Contents

  1. Index to Advertisers
SECTION I — CALIFORNIA AVOCADO SOCIETY
  1. Officers, Past Presidents

  2. Editorial Committee and Membership Dues

  3. Awards of Honor

  4. Award of Honor, Edward F. Frolich

  5. Award of Honor, William F. Catlin

  6. Financial Report

  7. Report of the President

  8. Environment and Ecology

  9. Report of the Avocado Variety Committee
SECTION II — GENERAL
  1. Realities in Research Money
    Richard Johnson, Jr

  2. Avocado Root Rot
    G. A. Zentmyer

  3. A Projection of California Avocado Acreage and Production to 1977
    Robert C. Rock

  4. Cost to Establish an Avocado Orchard in Ventura County
    B. W. Lee

  5. Costs to Produce Avocados in Ventura County
    B. W. Lee

  6. Cash Flow Chart for Avocado Production Costs
    B. W. Lee

  7. Avocado Irrigation Management
    J. E. Warneke and S. J. Richards

  8. Irrigation Water — a Major Salt Contributor to Avocado Orchards
    B. L. Branson and C. D. Gustafson

  9. Avocado Growers' Study Mission #2 to Mexico — 1970
    C. D. Gustafson

  10. Patented Avocado Varieties
    R. G. Platt

  11. Preservation of the Fuerte Variety
    J. Eliot Coit

  12. Current Hedging and Topping Practices for Avocados and Limes in Florida
    Phil Newman

  13. Lychee Cultivare in Hawaii
    R. A. Hamilton and W. Yee
SECTION III — RESEARCH
  1. Collections for Root Rot Resistance in Guatemala, Mexico and El Salvador
    E. L. V. Johnson, F. B. Guillemet, and G. A. Zentmyer

  2. Root Rot Resistance Field Plots
    G A. Zentmyer, F. B. Guillemet, E. F. Frolich, G. Goodall, C. D. Gustafson, B. W. Lee and M. Miller

  3. Expansion of Avocado Root Rot Resistance Program
    G. A. Zentmyer

  4. Development of Nitrogen Fertilizer Programs for California Avocados
    T. W. Embleton and W. W. Jones

  5. Use of the Etiolation Technique in Rooting Avocado Cuttings
    Edward F. Frolich and Robert C. Platt

  6. Effect of Rootstock Propagation, Nitrogen Fertilization, and Top Pruning on Bacon Avocados
    J. E. Warneke, T. W. Embleton, and S. J. Richards

  7. Chemical Inhibition of Avocado Top Regrowth
    S. B. Roswell, R. M. Burns, and C. D. McCarty

  8. Chemically Induced Sprouting of Auxiliary Buds in Avocados
    C. D. McCarty, S. R. Boswell, and R. M. Burns

  9. Report on the Program for Production of Avocado Nursery Trees Free of Sunblotch
    J. M. Wallace and R. J. Drake

  10. Summary of Experiments for the Chemical Control of the Avocado Brown Mite, Oligonychus Punicae (Hirst)
    J. C. Ortega and W. H. Ewart

  11. Further Studies on Control of Avocado Brown Mite with Releases of Stethorus Picipes
    J. A. McMurtry, H. G. Johnson, and C. D. Gustafson
SECTION IV — INTERNATIONAL
  1. South Africa's Avocado Industry — The Present Position
    W. J. Pretorius

  2. Advances in Aerial Photography
    H. T. Brodrich, B. Gilbertson, and M. H. Kreitzer

  3. Experimental Control of Avocado Phytophthora Root Rot in South Africa
    D. L. Milne and J. Chamberlain

  4. A Mycosphaerella Leaf Spot Disease on Avocado and its Control
    M. C. Joel Quintero E. and Dr. Sebastian Romero C

  5. Avocado Growing in New Zealand
    W. A. Fletcher

  6. Selection of Avocado Varieties in Israel
    Ephraim Slor and Rachel Spodheim

  7. Avocado Rootstock-Scion Relationships: A Long-Term Large-Scale Field Research Project
    A. Ben-Ya'acov

  8. The Effect of Girdling on Fruit Quality, Phenology and Mineral Analysis of the Avocado Tree
    E. Lahav, B. Gefen, and D. Zamet

  9. The Determination of Avocado Fruit weight on the Tree
    E. Lahav and D. Zamet

  10. Preparation of Avocado Leaves for Chemical Analysis of Nutrient Elements
    A. Kadman, A. Ben Ya'acov and Rachel Spodheim

  11. Experiments with Various Treatments to Cure Chlorotic Avocado Trees
    A. Kadman and E. Lahav