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to come to the State as to encourage the right kind of people to come, 

 and to distribute them wisely throughout our grape sections when they 

 arrive. Such a bureau, which would make it possible for a stranger in 

 a strange land to learn from a reliable source and in his own language 

 the opportunities and demands of the different grape sections of the 

 State, is indispensable to his success and that of our wine industry. 



Of course, they will be able to secure valuable information and co- 

 operation from the University of California, w^hich, by the way, is the 

 only state educational institution in the United States that has a depart- 

 ment of viticulture that attempts to teach practical grape growing and 

 wine making. Prof. Frederic T. Bioletti is in charge of this department 

 and his advice is always of great value to any stranger, for he has the 

 information at his finger tips and is familiar with every vineyard section 

 in the State. 



Experimental Stations. 



Another source from which the stranger will be able to secure accu- 

 rate and valuable information is the Department of Agriculture, which 

 has a dozen viticultural experiment stations in California, in charge of 

 Prof. Geo. C. Hussman. 



The three most important of these stations are located at Oakville, in 

 Napa County; at Guasti, in San Bernardino County; and near Fresno. 

 They have developed into places of broad viticultural research and 

 experimental work, and furnish practical object lessons in viticulture 

 and an excellent opportunity to solve many problems of commercial 



interest. 



Among the prominent problems which have been occupying the atten- 

 tion of Professor Hussman at these experimental stations are compara- 

 tive tests of the resistent stock varieties, congeniality determinations 

 between Vinifera and different resistent varieties, studies on determina- 

 tion of varieties best adapted to different localities, testing the classes of 

 grapes with reference to their resistance of insects, diseases, etc. 



In a conversation with Professor Hussman a few days ago, I was 

 informed that, when the vintage arrives next fall, he proposes to invite 

 the grape growers in the vicinity of these three stations to a series of 

 talks which he will give in the experimental vineyards, explaining, with 

 the aid of his assistants, exactly what has been accomplished with the 

 different varieties of grapes by the government, after years of careful 

 experimental work. 



Professor Hussman, by the way. deplores the lack of interest taken in 

 this work by the average grape grower. He expresses the hope that, 

 €ven though his talks next fall will take place during the busy vintage 

 season, the grape growers will feel justified in dropping their work for 

 a day and visit the stations, which show up to best advantage when the 

 countless varieties of wine, table and raisin grapes are ripe and ready 

 to be picked. 



