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The course is a practical one, dealing with the production of both 

 extracted and comb honey. The student should learn from it enough 

 to enable him to handle bees intelligently. The aim is to have the 

 student actually study the bees, rather than study about them. 



COURSE 16. APPLE CULTURE 



The course in apple culture is designed to meet the needs of those 

 who desire to grow apples for profit under California conditions. The 

 requirements of the crop as to climate and soil will be taken up with 

 a consideration of important varieties and their adaptation to the 

 various apple-growing districts of the State. Some attention will be 

 given to methods of propagation and improvement of varieties, but 

 the main purpose of the course is to consider how to grow better 

 apples, and the problems of planting, pruning, irrigation, cultivation, 

 and control of pests will be taken up more fully. The problems con- 

 nected with harvesting and marketing will be emphasized and the 

 utilization of by-products given attention. 



COURSE 17. PEAR CULTURE 

 Prepared by R. E. SMITH, Professor of Plant Pathology. 



This course presents a good, practical treatise on pears from the 

 nursery bench to the fruit stand. The control of fire blight, and the 

 marketing of the crop are topics which receive special attention. 

 There are great possibilities in pears for the intelligent grower who 

 is willing to study and practice up-to-date methods, as the blight has 

 taken the crop from the careless farmer. 



COURSE 18. PEACH CULTURE 



Prepared by W. T. CLARKE, Professor of Agricultural Extension 



and Superintendent of Farmers' Institutes and 



R. H. TAYLOR, Instructor in Pomology. 



There are many favored districts in -California where nature will 

 reward abundantly those who apply intelligent effort toward produc- 

 ing peaches of high grade for the market. The course in peach culture 

 covers those details of pruning, thinning, picking and packing which 

 are so essential to success, as well as the general questions of planting, 

 irrigation and cultivation. Special attention is given to marketing 

 methods, canning, drying and ways of utilizing by-products. 



