The Chelan Valley is one of several valleys located on the eastern slope of the Cascade Mountains contributing to the leadership of Washington in apple production. Since the nature of the activity in the Chelan Valley is typical of all these producing areas,it was selected as a case study of...
Interactions between sediment bacteria and available phosphate
necessary for algal production in a eutrophic lake were studied.
Twenty percent of the organisms isolated solubilized phosphate forms
such as CaHPO₄, Ca₃(PO₄)₂, FePO₄, Mg₃(PO₄)₂ and Al₂(PO₄)₂.
Solubilization of phosphates occurred under conditions of aerobic
growth.
Upon quantitative analysis, some isolates were capable...
In the Pajaro Valley near Watsonville, California,
twospotted spider mite (Tetranychus urticae Koch)
populations were surveyed in 1983 and '84 to detect the
influence of immigrants from nursery plants or
surrounding vegetation on subsequent resistance
development to cyhexatin and formetanate in strawberry
fields. Susceptible mites (cyhexatin LC50 = 0.0039 %...
A recent development in drift-control for agricultural ground sprayers is the
installation of a hood (or shroud) over the boom. Hoods are designed to provide
a protected zone in which droplets can be sprayed and deposited on the target with
limited interference from the wind.
This study compared chemical drift...
The nutritive values of two fishery by-products, i.e. fish
protein hydrolysate (FPH) and liquefied fish (LF), were studied.
Three trials using Hubbard broilers, and Yorkshire pigs (starter
and grower phase) were conducted. The FPH was used in the broiler
trial and LF in the swine grower trial as supplemental protein...
A field study on grass field burning was conducted in the
Willamette Valley of Oregon during the summer of 1965. Approximately 243,000 acres of grass fields are burned in the valley during
August and September. Serious air pollution problems result from
this burning. The purposes of the study were to...
Two types of exogenous mortality factors, density-independent and density-dependent, were identified for the black vine weevil, Otiorhynchus sulcatus Fab., developing on container grown rhododendrons. The addition of the insecticide acephate, (O.S.- Dimethyl acetylphosphoramidothioate, Orthene®)75S) to the rhizosphere of rhododendrons in which larval O. sulcatus develop was categorized as a density-independent...
Strawberry plants infected with June yellows and witches'-broom
disease were grown in a mist chamber and treated with varying concentrations
of oxytetracycline. Treatment with 50 ppm oxytetracycline
produced phytotoxicity effects in strawberries infected with June yellows.
However, treatment with 10 ppm oxytetracycline resulted in a
significant (one percent level) increase...
