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summer fallowing in their niutiuil relations, growth of. legmnes with 

 inoculation and irrigation, and movement and loss of water in furrow 

 irrigation and witli soil mulches. Some attention has also been 

 given to a study of the efficiency of various canal linings, drainage 

 problems, and seepage losses. The nutrition investigations in coop- 

 eration with this Office have comprised largely studies of the diges- 

 tibility of fruit and nuts. 



The university ha,s recently been the beneficiary of a bequest by the 

 late Theodore Kearney, of Fresno, of property valued at about 

 $1,000,000. If the property is finally awarded to the university by 

 the probate coin-t, it is expected that the income of about $50,000 per 

 year will be used for agricidtural instruction and research in the San 

 Joaquin Valley. 



The station is now well provided with funds for printing the re- 

 sults of its investigations and the volume of its publications has 

 materiallv increased. During the past year bulletins were received 

 as follows: IGG, Spraying for scale insects; IGT, Manufacture of dry 

 wines in hot countries; 168, Observations on some vine diseases in 

 Somona County; 169, Field observations upon the tolerance of 

 the sugar beet for alkali; 170, Studies in grasshopper control; 171 

 and 173, Commercial fertilizers; 172, Tomato diseases in California; 

 176, Sugar beets in the San Joaquin Valley ; and 177, A new method 

 of making dry red wine. The station has also issued a number of cir- 

 culars on the culture of the sugar beet, codling-moth control, recent 

 problems in agriculture, agricultural education, seed wheat, cater- 

 pillars on oaks, and teaching agriculture in the public schools. 



The income of the station during the past fiscal 3'^ear was as 

 follows : 



United States appropriation. Ilatoli Act $15,000.00 



United Sates a])pi'oi)riation, Adams Act 5,000.00 



State approjtriatious for sju'cial iiivesiicatioiis. including 



substaticjns 27. 277. 0-i 



Fainn products 1,440. 77 



Individuals 2:^2. 42 



Miscellaneous, including' halance from ]irevious years •' 18, 118. 81 



Total l")7, 0<>n. 04 



Reports of the receipts and (he expenditures for the United States 

 funds have Ikhmi rendered in accordance with the schedides prescribed 

 by this Department and have been ai)proved. 



The State has shown a disposition to be liberal in appropriations 

 for agricultural investigations, but generally for specific pieces of 

 work. There is still need for appropriations which can be used for 



" Includiiitr !?10.0(tit, csliuiatrd porticin of s.ilaries paid from the .eeneral funds 

 of the universit.v to nit'iiii)ers of statitm slalf who are emplo.ved in both instruc- 

 tion and res(>:ircli. 



