THE MONTHLY BULLETIN 



CALIFORNIA STATE COMMISSION OF HORTICULTURE. 



DEVOTED TO HORTICULTURE IN ITS BROADEST SENSE, WITH SPECIAL 

 REFERENCE TO PLANT DISEASES, INSECT PESTS, AND 



THEIR CONTROL. 



Sent free to all citizens of the State of California. Offered in exchange for bulletin.? 

 of the Federal Government and experiment stations, entomological and mycological 

 journals, agricultural and horticultural papers, botanical and other publications of a 

 similar nature. 



A. J. Cook, State Commissioner of Horticulture Censor 



E. J. VosLER, Secretary State Commission of Horticulture Editor 



ASSOCIATE EDITORS. 



Geo. p. Weldon Chief Deputy Commissionor 



Hakrt S. Smith ; , Superintendent State Insectary 



Frederick Maskew »_■ . Chief Deputy Quarantine Officer 



Entered as second class matter December 29, 1911, at the post office at Sacramento. 

 California, under the act of July 16, 1S94. 



Farmers' Short Courses at the University of California. — The Uni- 

 versity of California announces that short courses will he given at the 

 Univer.sity Farm at Davis from October 2d to November 10th. There 

 will lie short courses in Agriculture. Horticulture and Poultry IIu.s- 

 bandi-y. During the last three weeks of the short course in Horti- 

 culture there will be special courses in citrus and semitropical fruits, 

 viticulture and olives. A course in farm tractors from November IHth 

 to 24th has also been announced. For particulars write to the Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station, Universitv of California, Berkeh^y. — 

 E. J. V. 



Seventh National Orange Show. — The dates for the Seventh 

 National Oi-ange Show to l)e held at San Bernardino have l)een given 

 by the directors of the Show as February 20 to 28, 1917. The othcers 

 of the Orange Show are as follows: President, Ben AV. Campton ; vice- 

 president, Joseph Ingersoll ; treasurer, Joseph Strawser ; general man- 

 ager. F. M. Peufro.— E. J. V. 



Citrus Experiment Station. — The contract for th(> building of the 

 new citrus experiment station of the University of California at River- 

 side was let on June 1.3th to the Cresmer Contracting Company. 



Wheat in California. — California, once an important wheat state 

 and noted for large bonanza wheat farms, is no longer classed as a 

 wheat-producing state. TAventy years ago it produced 45,000,000 

 bushels of wheat, shipping much of it to Europe. This year its pro- 

 duction will probably be not much more than 4.000.000 bushels, and it 

 will need to ship in from other states 10,000,000 bushels or more to 

 meet its own food requirements. — June Crop Report, V. S. Dcpt. of 

 Agric. 



