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and station came into possession of the new farm at Fresno, known 

 as the Kearney estate, which inchides 5,400 acres, with fine bnihlings, 

 and is valued at about $1,000,000. This was the gift of Mr. M. T. 

 Kearney, and affords unusual facilities for experiments of interest to 

 the San Joaquin Valley. In the Imperial Valley of California a 

 substation was operated with a State appropriation of $6,000 for 

 the biennium. The climatic and other conditions are so different in 

 this valley from other parts of the State as to afford opportunity for 

 work of great usefulness. 



In Idaho three branch stations have been provided for, their work 

 to be directed to the study and demonstration of local problems. 

 One of these has been located at Clagstone, in the cut-over district 

 of northern Idaho, where a tract of 200 acres was contributed bv an 

 individual for the use of the substation. Another station for work 

 in irrigation was located at Gooding, in southern Idaho, and work 

 there successfully inaugurated. The third station, for dry farming, 

 was located at Idaho Falls. The substation at Caldwell, which has 

 been in operation for several years, is continued. Cooperative experi- 

 ments with the fruit, dairy, and grain farmers of southern Idaho are 

 being planned. The appointment of three field men for extension 

 work in horticulture and entomology, irrigation and general farm- 

 ing, and dairying has been authorized. 



Minnesota has made generous provision for this popular effort. 

 The various divisions of the station are provided with funds for 

 field and demonstration work from the current expense appropria- 

 tions of the university, or by special appropriations for siDecific 

 cases. The division of dairying and animal husbandry, for instance, 

 has a fund of $2,500 a year for special investigations in dairying 

 and poultry lines, the division of entomology $5,000 for field work 

 in entomology, the veterinary division $2,000 for hog-cholera work, 

 the chemical division $1,000 for soil investigations, the agricul- 

 tural engineering division $2,000 for drainage investigation ancj 

 demonstration, the division of botany and plant pathology $4,000 

 for plant diseases and $1,000 for the eradication of noxious weeds, 

 and the agricultural division $2,000 for tobacco culture. 



The engineering division of the Minnesota college and station 

 supervised the drainage of an 80-acre demonstration farm at Belle- 

 plaine, Minn., and installed a sn>all tile drainage experiment on heavy 

 clay lands at Meadow Lands, Minn. Field work was also conducted 

 in some of the potato-growing districts, consisting of lectures, demon- 

 strations, etc., with the idea of getting the potato growers interested 

 in better seed selection and cultural methods. These demonstra- 

 tions were all well attended and proved of value. The outside corn- 

 breeding stations were continued, and proved to be important as trial 

 stations as well as for developing new varieties of corn adapted to 



