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courses and 88 students in teacher training courses. 

 The University Farm is equipped with an irrigation 

 system, breeding herds and flocks, field cultures, 

 orchards, vineyards and gardens and an operating 

 commercial creamery. Research work in sixty experi- 

 ment projects is also pursued. 



At Eiverside the College of Agriculture conducts 

 a "Tropical School of Agriculture" with sixteen 

 instructors and research men using 698 acres with 

 laboratories and outbuildings, pursuing 63 experi- 

 ment station projects chiefly in growing and mar- 

 keting of citrus fruits. Instruction is confined to 

 graduate students and specialists, although the 

 equipment of a farm school is contemplated and 

 partly provided for. 



At Fresno two hundred acres of the 5000-acre 

 Kearney Eanch, owned by the University, is used 

 for research projects in reclamation of alkaline soil, 

 and in fruit and field-crop growing. 



At Porterville a branch experiment station is 

 dealing with the growth of citrus fruits on heavy 

 hillside soils, in cooperation with the citrus work 

 at Eiverside. Another Eiverside outpost is at Whit- 

 tier, a laboratory equipped for study of plant dis- 

 eases. 



At Meloland in the Imperial Valley forty acres 

 of land and farm buildings are used for experimental 

 work with the growing of dates, cotton and grapes 

 in. a region wholly dependent on irrigation. 



At Mountain View in the Santa Clara Valley are 

 research headquarters and laboratories for the study 



