10 May. 1918.] 



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well as the eleven other divisions into which the college is divided, but 

 it is unnecessary to describe these at the present juncture. The in- 

 formation will, however, be most useful in considering plans for the 

 extension of our own work in Victoria. 



At the time of my visit, the eighteen divisions of the college were 

 engaged in working on 366 projects. 



Before any piece of research is undertaken, a statement is sub- 

 mitted to the Director, specifying — 



(1) The objective of the research; 



(3) The points to be investigated — specific questions to be 

 answered ; 



(3) Plan of organizing work, or methods of procedure; 



(4) Literature of subject. 



(2) Education. 

 The main educational work is preparing candidates for degrees in 

 agriculture. 



University Farm, Davis, Calif oriiia. 

 A, Students' Luncheon Rooms; B, Administrative Office; C, Dormitories. 



During the first two years the undergraduate course in agriculture 

 at Berkeley is substantially the same for all students. It gives a train- 

 ing in chemistry, botany, bacteriology, geology, zoology, mathematics, 

 and surveying. 



All students are required to acquire a real reading knowledge of 

 some foreign language and a knowledge of their own language. 



At the end of the second year a student takes a summer practice 

 course of six weeks, in order to give him some practical knowledge of the 

 phase of agriculture he intends to enter, and to enable him to change 

 if he finds that he has been mistaken in the choice of occupations. 



The minimum requirements for entrance at Berkeley are high school 

 graduation (which would correspond to our senior public)'. 



During the third ■ and fourth year the student for a degree may 

 specialize in one of eighteen divisions: (1) Agricultural chemistry, 

 (2) agricultural education (3) agronomy, (4) animal husbandry, (5) 

 citriculture, (6) dairy industry, (7) entomology, (8) forestry, (9) forest 

 utilization, (10) irrigation, (11) nutrition, (12) parasitology, (13) plant 

 pathology, (14) pomology, (15) poultry husbandry, (16) soils and fer- 

 tilizers, (17) viticulture and venology, (18) landscape gardening and 

 floriculture. 



