“… Reality better than the dream.”: Judge Shields' centennial message

Also in this issue:

A Progress report: Grape mechanical harvesting comes closer to reality

Seed size effects: On hybrid sweet corn in Coachella Valley

Temperature and olive yields

Wild oats sown for science yield the improved Sierra variety

Pear decline research

Plum root stocks for almonds: Incompatibility emphasized in source mix-up with certain plum combinations

Cotton yields: Not affected by irrigation method on panoche clay loam

The proposed Trade Expansion Act of 1962 and California Agriculture

The picric acid method for determining minute amounts of hydrocyanic acid in fumigated insects,

Relation of mortality to amounts of hydrocyanic acid recovered from fumigated resistant and nonresistant citrus scale insects