52 KKPOH'I' (H" OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



(liirini:: Ihc war arc l)rooni-rorn sn*rfr(^stions; poannts; cotton-seed 

 products in h()<; fccdin*r; aspai'airus and salt, and asparagus growing 

 in Arlcansas, and rliubarb in Arkansas. 



CALIFORNIA. 



Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of California, Berkeley. 



Department of the University of California. 



E. W. IIiLGARi). Pli. p., I.L. D., Director. 



GENERAL OUTLOOK, 



The character of the investigations of the California Station has 

 not changed materially during the past year. A circular and a bulle- 

 tin on asjiaragus rust have been issued during the year, also bulletins 

 on pear scab, fennentation, silk culture, olive oil, the hop aphis, tuber- 

 culosis in fowls, and poultry feeding. Work very^ similar to that 

 reported on in these publications is being carried on by the diflferent 

 departments of the station. The 'department of entomolog}^ is giv- 

 ing special attention to the scale insects, aphides, and mosquitoes; the 

 department of chemistry to digestion experiments and other nutri- 

 tion work with poultry, and the department of veterinar}' science 

 and bacteriology^ to poultry diseases. The work at the substations 

 has been continued as heretofore, but the Pomona substation is to 

 be closed at once, and the one at Tulare as soon as some of the alkali 

 studies are completed. 



The station and college are better provided than formerly with 

 State funds for improvements and for special investigations. The 

 last legislature appropriated $150,000 for the purchase and equip- 

 ment of a farm, $30,000 for a pathological laboratory in southern 

 California for the study of plant diseases, $20,000 for investigation 

 of pear blight, walnut blight, and viticulture; $10,000 for the im- 

 provement of cereals; $12,000 for farmers' institutes; $4,000 for the 

 poultry station, and $17,000 for printing. There were also appro- 

 priations to the university amounting to $22,075 for the restoration 

 of the Santa Monica Forestry Station and forest fire protection. The 

 director of the station has been given a year's leave of absence, and 

 E. J. Wickson is acting director. Other changes with reference to 

 the business and policy of the station are being made. 



The changes in station management and policy it is believed will 

 result in greater efficiency. The work of the station continues to be 

 handicapped by a lack of adequate quarters and facilities for field 

 work. The legislature, while quite generous to the college and sta- 

 tion, still continues its policy of specific appropriations, which are 

 often secured through the intervention of special interests, usually 



