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- Author or Editor: H. A. Rollins Jr. x
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Faculty evaluation and counseling when carried out effectively can lead to departmental excellence. Conducted improperly, however, the procedure can, and often does, create anxieties and inhibit total team effort. The faculty evaluation, counseling, and reward system, to be effective, must stimulate progress toward departmental goals and objectives. If the reward system within the entire university is such as to disregard the assigned goals and missions of the department, then the process will likely be counterproductive.
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Horticulture is entering a new and exciting era with unique and unlimited opportunities if only we will be imaginative and respond to the needs of all people. The general public, elected officials and even university administrators are beginning to demonstrate a greater interest in, and awareness of, the potentials of horticulture. The challenge is clear if only we will accept it.
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Mature, bearing Staymen apple trees were subjected to a series of early season fungicide treatments to determine whether the fruiting performance of the variety might be affected by the use of captan or dodine applications. Both captan and dodine were used at rates recommended in Virginia. A limited number of treatments deviated from these levels. Data were taken and analyzed on fruit set, fruit weight, estimated bloom intensity, and estimated yield. Tests were conducted during the 1963, 1964 and 1965 seasons. All three test seasons were warm and dry during the blossom period, conditions favorable to bee activity and fruit set. Fruiting was heavy in 1963 and 1965, moderate in the 1964 season. No significant differences in fruitting performance between the captan and dodine treated trees were detected in any year.
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Ohio is a major horticultural state with well-educated growers willing to adopt new technologies. Because of geographic location, climate, soils, and population density, Ohio has wide diversity of horticultural industries. It ranks first in the U.S. in greenhouse vegetable production, third in floral crop production, second in the production of processing tomatoes, third in the production of cucumbers for pickles, eighth in apple production, third in nursery crop production, and fifth in food processing. Ohio ranks sixth in population in the U.S. with 57% of the total U.S. expenditures for food made within a 600-mile radius of Columbus. Because of Ohio’s high population density, many of the horticultural industries have capitalized upon their nearness to market. The development of garden centers, as well as retail fruit and vegetable markets with a recreational atmosphere, have become commonplace.
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Today, mechanical harvesting has become a reality with some crops, but only a goal with most. In the production of apples it is becoming increasingly apparent that the physical labor required to harvest the crop must be reduced if apples are to remain a competitive commodity.