EXPERIMENT STATIOiN NOTES. 



Alabama Stations. — The report ou education adopted by the State Alliance at its 

 last annual meeting contains the following references to agricultural education and 

 investigation : 



" We congratulate the State upon the growth of her State College in six years from 

 a mere literary institute, with one hundred and twenty-seven students, to i grand 

 polytechnic institute, with two hundred and fifty-four matriculates, and we are 

 pleased to ascribe this growth to the development of the agricultural and mec aanical 

 departments of the college. 



"We commend also the establishment of branch agricultural schools and sxperi- 

 ment stations in different sections and upon typical soils of the State. We congratu- 

 late the State Experiment Station in calling to its aid co-operative experimjuts by 

 farmers, cultivating typical soils of the State, to study the needs of our various soils. 



"We indorse the holding of farmers' institutes as the most effectual means of 

 carrying the school to the farmers, and believe that vast good may be accomplished 

 by this means if actively and intelligently conducted. We recommend that the 

 Commissioner of Agriculture be required by law to hold a farmers' institute in each 

 county of the State annually, and be authorized to call to his aid the best local and 

 farm talent at reasonable compensation for the service rendered. 



" We recommend that any funds arising from the feesou commercial fertilizers not 

 required for the maintenance of the Department of Agriculture, economically con- 

 ducted, and not already appropriated for the benefit of the agriculture of the State, 

 be appropriated for the establishment of local branch schools in different sections of 

 the State, requiring the local authorities and citizens to furnish the buildings and 

 laud necessary for manual and practical training." 



Arizona College and Station.— F. A. Gulley, M. S., has been elected professor 

 of agriculture and director of the station, vice S. M. Franklin, who, however, still 

 remains a member of the governing board. 



California Station. — A substation for Southern California has recently been 

 established at Pomona, Los Angeles County, in conformity w^ith the result of explo- 

 rations made last season with the view of finding a locality reasonably representative 

 of a region which includes both the coast from Santa Barbara to San Diego and the 

 more or less arid lands of the interior. On the ground that the station should be 

 situated within the great valley of that portion of the State (which reaches from Los 

 Angeles to San Bernardino Mountain, and which is the largest and earliest settled 

 track of agricultural land south of the San .Joaquin Valley), a compromise location 

 within that valley seemed to be best realized on or near the water divide between 

 the two river systems that now drain it diagonally, viz., the San Gabriel and Santa 

 Ana rivers. 



As in former cases, the land for the station has been donated. The soil of the main 

 tract of .30 acres is the reddish loam, which is considered specially favorable to the 

 success of citrus fruits. The 10-acre tract is a fair sample of the black loam that 

 constitutes most lands of this as well as of the coast region, is especially adapted to 

 field crops of all kinds, and needs no irrigation. The two tracts lie about 2 miles 

 apart. On the larger one the station buildings will be erected, with the aid of abou( 



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