The Improvement of Quality in Figs (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Improvement of Quality in Figs The Experiment Station has for several years been engaged in a study of fig troubles, with considerable financial assistance from the California Peach and Fig Growers Association. Miss Phillips began the work in 1920. She and Miss Smith were the first to indicate clearly that the rotting and spoiling o-f figs in the orchard is not an ordinary process of decay or the effect of weather conditions, but that there are certain specific troubles or diseases, each with a definite cause and process of development. Their work suggested certain fundamental facts which later investigations have proven to be correct. The follow ing'principles may be considered as established: (1) The rotting of figs is caused by different kinds of fungi, bacteria, yeasts and similar organisms, which start to develop inside the fruit. (2) The decay germs are carried into the figs by insects, a fig is always sound and sterile unless it has been entered by some insect. (this might not apply to figs which had been rained 'on or had lain on wet soil.) (3) Almost all the trouble starts while the figs are still on the tree and 'not after they have fallen to the ground. (4) The rotting or souringof figs is not caused by weather conditions, soil moisture, or irrigation, but these conditions may hasten or retard the trouble by causing the figs to ripen and dry more or less slowly. P. D. Caldis5 followed with further investigation of fig troubles. Agents of the Bureau of Ento mology of the United States Department of Agriculture have recently been assigned to work on fig troubles, through the efforts of the Dried Fruit Association of California. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.