building with a finished basement. The building covers an area of 15,000 

 square feet, and has an assembly room with a seating capacity of 600. Of 

 the rooms, all of which are well lighted, ventilated and heated, three are used 

 by the commercial department, seven by the household economics department, 

 among them being a model kitchen, bedroom, dining room and laundry. 

 There are four science laboratories. 



A building devoted to manual arts has been erected on the six-acre plot. 

 This is of two stories and contains a floor area of over 5,000 square feet. On 

 the first floor four rooms are devoted to wood and metal work and forging. 

 The lockers and showers for the gymnasium are on this floor. The gymnasium 

 occupies the upper floor. There are cloak rooms, a gallery and a kitchen. 



Tennis and basketball courts occupy the main grounds, where there are 

 also an athletic track and enclosed baseball grounds. 



County Library 



A Free County Library movement, now authorized by law in California, was 

 initiated in Yolo County in 1905, and nearly all of the county school districts 

 have joined the County Library. There are about 10,000 books in the 

 County Library, and the circulation during the current year approximated 

 50,000, Books from the State library at Sacramento are available for use 

 on request. Magazines of all kinds may be taken out for home reading. 



University Farm 



If it were necessary to still advance arguments as to the desirability of 

 Yolo County for farming purposes, the fact that the University of California 

 established one of the largest and best farms possessed by any college of 

 agriculture in the world at Davis, Yolo County, should be final. The entire 

 area of 780 acres is of Putah Creek soil far-famed for its depth and rich- 

 ness. This site was selected in competition with more than one hundred 

 other communities and only after most exhaustive examinations. That no 

 mistake was made is evidenced by the fact that recent investigations have 

 shown that the soil is of similar character to a depth of fourteen to twenty 

 feet, at which point water is found. Roots of barley and other small grains 

 and plants penetrate to the same distance. 



The chief business of such an institution is instruction and experimenta- 

 tion. Provision is made for three lines — students who go from the main 

 University of California at Berkeley for one term out of their four-year 

 course, students in the Farm School which regularly is a three-year course, 

 and short-course students who are provided with exceptional facilities for 

 brief periods during October and November of each year. Any person over 

 seventeen years of age is admitted to the short courses without examination. 

 The fees are nominal, being on a basis of one dollar a week. 



Experimentation looking to the improvement of California agriculture 

 occupies a large place and is being conducted in irrigation to determine the 

 duty of water for alfalfa and other crops ; in grain growing to increase the 

 yield and quality of wheat, barley and oats, and to determine practicable 

 methods of improving and conserving soil fertility ; in fruit growing to 

 study varieties and methods of culture and control of various diseases ; in 

 forage crops to study new and promising varieties of alfalfa, corn, sorghum 

 and legumes for green manuring; in live stock to gain further knowledge of 

 how to combat tuberculosis and other diseases; in poultry to determine the 

 best types of houses for California and study methods of feeding and breed- 

 ing for best laying strains; in dairying to improve quality of butter and 

 secure larger returns to dairymen. 



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