v-t- JNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Agricultural Experiment Station COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE E. J. WlCKSON, director BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA CIRCULAR No. 37 May, 1908. INSTRUCTION IN PRACTICAL AGRICULTURE UPON THE UNIVERSITY FARM AT DAVIS, CALIFORNIA ANNOUNCEMENT OF FARMERS' SHORT COURSES FOR 1908 Dairy Manufacture.— Eight weeks. October 5th-November 25th. Irrigation, Soils, Forage Crops and Cereals.— Three weeks. October 12th-31st. Poultry Husbandry.— Eight days. October 12th-20th. Animal Industry and Veterinary Science.— Four weeks. October 21st-November 18th. Horticulture and Viticulture.— Three weeks. November 4th-25th. Benjamin Ide Wheeler, Ph.D., LL.D., President of the University. INSTEUCTING STAFF AND SUBJECTS FROM THE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE. E. J. Wickson, M.A., Horticulture, Grasses and Forage Crops. Leroy Anderson, M.S.A., Ph.D., Dairy Industry. M. E. Jaffa, M.S., Poultry Husbandry. C. W. Woodwoeth, M.S., Entomology. E. H. Loughridge, Ph.D., Soils. G. W. Shaw, M.A., Ph.D., Cereals and Sugar Beets. E. W. Major, B.Agr., Animal Industry. W. T. Clarke, B.S., Horticulture and Viticulture. B. A. Etcheverry, B.S., Irrigation. J. S. Burd, B.S., Fertilizers. C. M. Haring, D.V.M., Veterinary Science. E. H. Hageman, Dairy Industry. A. E. Wright, B.S., Irrigation A. J. Gaumnitz, B.S.A., Cereals. M. E. Sherwin, B.S., Cereals. J. A. Denny, Sugar Beets. NON-RESIDENT INSTRUCTORS. F. T. Bioletti, M.S., Lodi, Viticulture. W. B. Mack, D.V.M., University of Nevada, Veterinary Science. Charles Keane, D.V.S., State Veterinarian of California, Veteri- nary Science. F. H. McNair, D.V.M., Berkeley, Poultry Diseases. Mrs. M. E. Sherman, Fresno, Horticulture and Viticulture. Mrs. A. Basley, Los Angeles, Poultry Husbandry. Frank T. Swett, Martinez, Viticulture. G. N. Hecke, Woodland, Horticulture and Viticulture. Earl Morris, B.S., County Entomologist, Santa Clara, Entomology. W. H. Volck, County Entomologist, Santa Cruz and Monterey, Ento- mology. J. S. Hunter, County Entomologist, San Mateo, Entomology. V. G. Huntley, Petaluma, Poultry Husbandry. LOCATION The University Farm, the selection and purchase of which was provided for by an act of the California Legislature of 1905, is contiguous to the town of Davis, in Yolo County. The farm adjoins the town on the south and west and the main buildings are not more than one-half mile from the town's business street. The location is very convenient, as Davis is situated at the junction of the Oregon and Central overland railway routes and many trains pass each way daily. The purposes of the University Farm and the duties of the Eegents of the University in connection therewith are defined by the statute (Chapter CXXIX) as follows: They (the Eegents of the University) shall appoint the neces- sary instructors and inaugurate and provide for the conduct of instruction in agriculture, and in such other branches of learning as are allied thereto, and as are calculated to better qualify and inform the students attending in the theory and practice of agri- culture. This instruction shall be conducted in connection with, and as a part of, the College of Agriculture of the University of California, provisions being made by the Eegents for such attend- ance on the farm of the college students as may be deemed best aud necessary to the completion of their college courses. The University Farm and the instruction thereon shall be so conducted as to meet the needs of persons who desire instruction in agriculture, horticulture, viticulture, animal industry, dairying, irrigation, and poultry raising, and to prepare them for the pursuit thereof; and shall be used for experimental and investigational work in con- nection with the agricultural experiment station of the University of California. Short courses of instruction shall also be arranged for in each of the leading branches of agricultural industry, so regulated as to provide for popular attendance and general instruction in agricultural practice. PURPOSE OF THE COURSES. For several years the University has endeavored to give prac- tical instruction in agriculture through short courses at Berkeley and other points in the State. A serious handicap has been found in the lack of field operations under the direct control of the University whenever such courses have been offered. With the large farm provided at Davis and the equipment so far secured this handicap is removed and the University is pleased to offer opportunities equal to those of eastern institutions of longer standing. The aim of the short course is to give the latest and best knowl- edge in a condensed and concentrated form to farmers and creamery- operators who can spend only a brief period away from their busi- ness,— to put into a nutshell, as it were, what is now known of the principles underlying the agricultural processes and their appli- cation to farm practice. The dominant feature of the courses will be their emphasis of the practical aspect of the farm operations and the actual participation by the students in the work under consideration. EVERYBODY MAY COME. The Farmers ' courses are open to all persons who are at least seventeen years of age. No entrance examinations will be given nor any requirement imposed except an earnest desire to learn and to make the best use of the opportunities freely offered by the State through its University. Each person is at liberty to choose the course he or she desires and will be expected to continue with the course registered for, though opportunity will be given to pursue parts of two or more courses simultaneously if the student desires, and the hours are convenient. Enough work is given in each course to occupy the entire time of the student and each has been so outlined as to best meet the needs of most individuals so far as those needs may be foreseen. Any one who desires to come will kindly fill out the application form found in the back of this circular and mail to the Superin- tendent of the University Farm Schools, Davis, California. When you reach Davis, call at the Superintendent's Office, in room 6 of the Creamery Building, and register. You will then be directed to the work you desire to take and helped to find a home. Students in all courses are expected to register at the general office before registering in their especial courses. Correspondence regarding the courses is requested. The Superintendent or the instructor in charge of each course will be glad to answer any inquiries about the work to be given that may be raised by this announcement. Additional copies of the circular will be gladly sent to any address furnished us. We want every person in California who is interested in agriculture to know of the unusual opportunities the University is able to offer in instruction in agriculture. EQUIPMENT. The Farm covers an area of seven hundred and eighty acres of first-class valley land, chiefly a sandy loam and very productive. It is upon the irrigation system of the Yolo Consolidated Water Company and water rights covering the whole acreage accrued to the University by donation from the citizens of the vicinity. It is all capable of irrigation and main canals connecting with this system now traverse the farm. It is well equipped with work stock, chiefly mules, and with a full complement of farm wagons, tools, and machinery. Portions of the farm have been set aside for distinctly experimental work, e.g., forty acres for fruits and vines, of which one-half is planted; forty acres for improvement of cereals; thirty acres to irrigation to show results of different types of ditches and different methods of applying water; thirty acres of growing alfalfa are on the farm and about sixty acres more have been planted this season. Variety and culture tests of sugar beets and legumes are under way on some twenty acres; the remainder of the farm is in hay, grain, and summer fallow. Buildings. The Creamery is a two-story building 60 X 80 and has rooms for separators, churning, and cheese making. A forty-horsepower boiler furnishes steam for heating, for power to operate the creamery machinery, and the eight-ton refrigerating machine. On the second floor are two class rooms, a laboratory, and four offices. This building is for the present the administrative center of the farm and school. The Pavilion is a one-story octagon shaped building 60 X 80. It serves in the double capacity of a place for stock judging and a general auditorium. The seating capacity is about five hundred and here are held evening lectures and other meetings of general interest. The Dairy Barn consists of a main hay and feed portion 41 X 168 and two wings at right angles thereto each 41 X 105. The east wing has stanchions for fifty-two cows, while the west wing has small stanchions for calves and ten boxstalls for cows at calving and for bulls. The central part of the main barn is re- served for hay storage, while the ends are occupied with feed rooms, machine room, driveways, and three sleeping rooms for attendants. The barn has a concrete floor throughout with concrete gutters and mangers. The Seed House is located on the cereal experimental tract and is especially designed for the needs of that department. It is a one-story building 35 X 46, and in addition to office and small seed room has three larger rooms: one a tool room, one for student laboratory, and one for general w6rk room. The Shop is of one story, 30 X 70, and is divided into three apart- ments: one 20 X 30 for blacksmithing, one of the same size for carpenter work, while the remainder, 30 X 30, is a general work shop in farm machinery. It is the plan when more funds are available to extend this to 70 X 100, and it will later become a portion of the more completely housed department of rural engi- neering. A Water and Sewer System has been installed at a cost of about $18,000. The domestic water supply is pumped from a deep well into a 25,000-gallon tank at an elevation of sixty feet. Six-inch pipes carry the water to all present buildings and on lines to feed many future buildings, and to fire hydrants at necessary points. The disposal of sewage is by means of septic tanks from which it is pumped over an aerator and then applied to the land for irri- gation. Six- and eight-inch sewer pipes lead from the buildings to the septic tank, with concrete manholes at convenient intervals. This system has been planned and constructed with extreme care to the end that future occupants of the farm and attendants upon the schools may be assured of sanitary surroundings. A Dormitory System of commodious dimensions has been planned. The first unit in the system is a building 36 X 150, having two full stories and sufficient attic space for nine rooms. The dormitory has in all fifty single rooms in addition to two suites consisting of sitting and sleeping room and private bath. Every convenience in the way of bathing facilities, heating, lighting, large living room, and furnishings has been provided to make the life attrac- tive and homelike. The Original ranch buildings, consisting of a one-story cottage, horse, mule, and hay barns, wagon and tool sheds, are used by the University in the same manner as by their former owner. Two cottages for the occupancy of instructors or employees were con- structed in 1907 near the new buildings. THE COURSES. Following is a brief outline of the five courses offered. They are all so short that any one can leave his business to attend at least one. DAIKY MANUFACTURE. Eight Weeks. Monday, October 5th- Wednesday, November 25th. Object. To give an insight into the principles underlying the production of pure milk and the manufacture of milk pro- ducts, and to afford an opportunity of making and handling milk products under the instruction of successful operators. Instructors: Professor Anderson, Associate Professor Major, Dr. Haring, Mr. Hageman, and others. Lectures and recitations on the secretion, composition, and testing of milk; fermentations in milk and their control; principles and objects of pasteurization; separation of cream, cream ripening and use of starters; churning and controlling moisture in butter; cheese making and curing; dairy bacte- riology; breeds of dairy cattle; steam-engine, and other subjects of vital importance to the creamery operators. Two lectures daily for eight weeks. Practice in butter and cheese making, milk testing, dairy bacteriology, and ma- chinery, 4 to 6 hrs. daily, including Saturday. POULTEY HUSBANDRY. Eight Days. Monday, October ISth-Tuesday, October 20th. Breeds and Management. Professor Jaffa, Mrs. Basley, Mr. Huntley, and others. Study of breeds and breeding, feeding, care and management, incubators and incubation, egg testing, housing, and judging poultry. Three lectures daily and practice each afternoon from Monday to Saturday. 8 Diseases. Dr. Haring and Dr. McNair. Discussion of the common troubles of fowls and infectious diseases; caponizing and other poultry surgery. Monday and Tuesday, October 19th and 20th. Three lectures and afternoon practice each day. IRRIGATION, SOILS, FORAGE CROPS AND CEREALS. Three Weeks. Monday, October 12th- Saturday, October 31st. Irrigation. Assistant Professor Etcheverry and Mr. Wright. Explanation of principles and construction of levels and level rods. Practice with levels and rods. Staking out work, calculating quantities and keeping notes. First week, 2 lectures and 3 hrs. field work daily. Preparation of land for irrigation. Description of tools used in digging laterals and grading land. Different methods of applying water. Measurement of water and computation by means of meters, weirs, floats, etc. Second week, 1 lecture and 3 hrs. field work daily. Soils. Associate Professor Loughridge. Lectures and field illustrations of soil types, movements of soil water, etc. First week, 1 lecture daily and field work by appointment. Grasses and Forage Crops. Professor Wickson. A discussion of the various lands available for pasturage and forage purposes in California; of the policies which yield best results, and the culture of grasses and other forage plants which have shown special adaptation to California conditions under rainfall or irrigation. Third week, 1 lecture daily. Sugar Beets and Cereals.. Associate Professor Shaw, Assistant Professor Burd, Mr. Gaumnitz, Mr. Sherwin, and Mr. Denny. Sugar beet culture. Soils and climates, selecting and testing seed, preparation of land, fertilizer and water requirements, cultivation and irrigation, conserving the fertility under beet culture. Second week, 2 lectures daily. Cereal production. Wheat, barley, and oats, types, distribution, and adaptability, grading grain as to quality and selection of seed. Corn, its structure and composition. Maintaining fertility under cereal culture. Third week, 1 lecture daily and 2 hrs. field work. ANIMAL INDUSTRY AND VETERINARY SCIENCE. Four Weeks. Wednesday, October 21st-Wednesday, November 18th. Animal Industry. Associate Professor Major and Special Lecturers. Lectures and practice work in judging the various breeds of live- stock, their history, selection, feeding, care, and management; planning farm buildings; raising and handling forage crops. First week, dairy cattle; second week, beef cattle; third week, horses, jacks, and mules; fourth week, sheep and swine. Veterinary Science— Minor Surgery and Clinics. Dr. Haring and Special Lecturers. Practical facts regarding the anatomy and physiology of domestic animals, illustrated by actual dissections by students. Instruc- tion in the preparation of simple farm medicines and the care of sick animals. Minor surgical operations such as dehorning, castrating, and spaying. Throughout the 4 weeks, 2 afternoons per week. In connection with this course a free clinic will be conducted at the Pavilion on Monday and Tuesday afternoons. Veterinary Sanitary Science. Dr. Haring and Special Lecturers. Lectures and practice in tuberculin testing, vaccination, preparation and application of disinfectants and post-mortem examinations. Third and fourth weeks, 1 lecture daily and practice to be arranged. 1(1 HORTICULTURE AND VITICULTURE, INCLUDING ENTOMOLOGY. Three Weeks. Wednesday, November 4th-Wednesday, November 25th. Horticulture and Viticulture. Professor Wickson, Assistant Professor Clarke, Mrs. Sherman, Mr. Bioletti, Mr. Swett, Mr. Hecke, and others. A lecture and demonstration course covering the planting, care and management of orchards and vineyards. So far as the season and material at hand permits, the student will perform the various operations connected with the establishment and maintenance of orchards and vineyards. Considerable atten- tion will be given to the commercial side of orchard and vineyard operations, methods of disposition of the crop, and similar topics. Bench grafting and similar operations will receive much attention. Three weeks, 1 lecture daily and practice each afternoon. Entomology. Associate Professor Woodworth, Mr. Morris, Mr. Volck, and Mr. Hunter. A series of practical lectures and demonstrations illustrating and discussing the problems of insect control, including the following subjects: codling moth, peach moth, potato moth, corn worm, cutworms, grasshoppers, vinehoppers, cabbage aphis, melon aphis, apple-leaf aphids, woolly aphis, phyl- loxera, San Jose scale, red and yellow scale, black scale, brown apricot scale, white fly, fruit thrips, red spiders, etc. Also a detailed discussion of arsenical sprays, distillate emul- sions, lime sulfur mixture, and cyanide fumigation. Three weeks, 1 lecture and a 1 hr. demonstration daily. Excursions to nearby packing houses, orchards, and vineyards will be arranged for Saturdays during the continuance of these courses. Students will thus be enabled to observe methods under the most favorable conditions. Reading rooms will be available and illustrated lectures covering various phases of orchard work will profitably occupy certain evenings while these courses are in progress. 11 SCHEDULE OF EXERCISES. In most courses the forenoons from 9 to 12 o 'clock will be given up to lectures, recitations, and conferences. The afternoons will be occupied with field or laboratory work, beginning at 1 o'clock and continuing for three or four hours. Saturday morning will likewise be used for field work. In dairy manufacture the work will begin at 8 o'clock and continue until the day's duties are completed. The two hours of lectures will probably come after 3 p.m. Lectures of general interest may be expected two or three evenings of each week and in some instances these will be illustrated. Each course, except the dairy, will begin promptly at 9 o'clock of the first day scheduled. Students may register either before or any time during the first day. Registration for the dairy course will be on Monday, October 5th, and regular work will begin the following morning. The office is open from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. LIVING ACCOMMODATIONS. Board and room may be obtained in Davis at from twenty to twenty-five dollars per month. It is expected that the dormitory on the farm will be ready for occupancy October 1st. This accom- modates fifty persons in single rooms, and the charge will be based upon the actual cost of food and service. OTHER EXPENSES. To cover cost of materials used in the courses, all of which have a large amount of practical work, a fee of five dollars will be charged to each student on the basis of a three or four weeks' course. For instance, the fee for the courses in Horticulture and Viticulture will be five dollars; for the course in Dairy Manufac- ture, ten dollars. In the latter course an additional amount of five dollars will be deposited by each student to cover breakage of glassware or other apparatus. Such portion of this deposit will be returned as is not needed to pay charges for breakage. The fees are payable at the time of registration. Students in the dairy course will be required to wear white muslin suits and caps when in the laboratories. The suit is one usually worn by painters and is inexpensive. Each student should provide himself with at least two suits. Students in some of the other cdurses, especially Animal In- dustry, will need overalls and jumper. The cost of text and note books depends largely upon the desire of the individual. It is always best to have a few standard books and five dollars will meet most needs in these courses. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE UNIVERSITY FARM, DAVIS, CALIFORNIA SHORT COURSES IN AGRICULTURE APPLICATION FORM Name in full Permanent P. O. address Age Name and address of parent or guardian (if under 21) : Course desired State farm or creamery experience Date of application It will be helpful to us to know approximately the expected attendance upon the courses before their time of beginning and we thus ask all to fill out and mail the above application as soon as the decision to attend is reached. Address: Superintendent of University Farm Schools, Davis, California. THE SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE. Regular and systematic instruction in agriculture in all its branches, for boys from the age of fifteen up, will begin Tuesday, January 5, 1909. The course will be for two years, and the first year will close about June 1, 1909. The entrance requirement for this course is graduation from the eighth grade of the grammar schools. Full announcement of the course and other details will be given later in the present season. Additional information regarding instruction at the University Farm will be gladly furnished upon request. Leroy Anderson, Superintendent of University Farm Schools.