.80 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



TIh' income of the station <lurin<r the past fiscal year was as follows: 



United Stales appropriation, Ilateh Act $iri, 000. 00 



T'liilcd St.ih's !ip!trnpri:if ion. Adams Act 11, (KM). 00 



Slate approjirialion, including balance from previons 



year 14, r.GG. 64 



Farm products, including Italance from previous year__ 3,200.30 

 Dairy sales, including' l)a lance from jirevious year 9, 137. 00 



Total 52.904.54 



A report of the receipts and expenditures for the United States 

 funds has been rendered in accordance with the schedules prescribed 

 by this Dei)artnient and has been approved. 



With the solution of many of the problems reofarding its orjraniza- 

 tion, the Arkansas Station is ready to proceed witli these various lines 

 of work, and the results secured Avill no doubt be of a.ssistance and 

 value to the agricultural progress of the State. 



CALIFORNIA. 

 Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of California, Berkeley. 



E. J. WicKSON, .A. M.. Director. 



As in ])revious years, the work of the California Station included a 

 large number of different lines as called for by the varied asrricultural 

 interests of the State and provided for by special state appropria- 

 tions. These special appropriations aggregate a large sinn and 

 include for the biennial period beginning July 1, 1909, $130,000 for 

 buildings and equipment at the university farm at Davis, $88,500 for 

 the operating expenses of the farm, $20,000 for farmers' institutes, 

 $15,000 for viticultural investigations, $12,000 for cereal investiga- 

 tions, and $40,000 for the southern California pathological station. 

 The last legislature increased the rate of taxation for the benefit of 

 the university to 3 cents upon every $100 assessed valuation, making 

 the income for the current year about $r)00.000. 



F. T. liioletti was reappointed on the station staff duiing the year 

 and viticultural investigations were resumed. A ni..iiber of assist- 

 ants were added to the station staff, including W. T. Ilorne, assist- 

 ant plant pathologist; and J. E. Coit, assistant pomologist. Soil 

 bacteriological investigations were extended, with C. B. Lipman as 

 assistant in charge. 



The school of agriculture on the university farm at Davis opened 

 in Janiuiry, 1!)00. Various divisions of the college of agriculture 

 and agricultural experiment station are using portions of the farm 

 for experimental purposes and to grow feed for stock. The divisions 

 of horticulture and viticulture have 50 acres planted or to be planted 

 to trees and vines; the division of animal industry has 80 acres seeded 

 to alfalfa and 20 acres more under preparation, also several acres in 



