Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-08-28
VINTAGE Work.
INSTRUCTION IN THE FITICULT-
URAL LABORATORY.
Suggestions by Prof HiIgard just Is
sued from the University Expert
mental Station in Bulletin 81.

The vintage work in the Viticultural
Laboratory of the University will be re-
sumed during the first week of September
next, substantially on the plan pursued
during previous years, but with facilities
greatly enlarged and improved. The gen.
eral features of this work are outlined in
the Legislative Act of 1850, which is here
given for the information of persons inter
ested:
"An Act for the Promotion of the VIII
cultural Interests of the State. approved
April -, 1880. Statutes of California, 1880,
page So
Section S. And for the further promo
ton of viticultural interests, it shall be the
duty of the Board of Regents of the Uni
versity of California to provide for special
instruction to be given by the Agricultural
Department of the University, in the arts
and sciences pertaining to yiticulture, the
theory and practice of fermentation distil
alton and rectifcation, and the manage
ment of cellars, TO be illustrated by practical
experiments with appropriate apparatus;
also, TO direct the Professor of Agriculture,
or his assistant to make personal eXamlna-
ton and reports upon the different sections
OF the State adapted to yiticulture; to ex-
anime and report upon the woods OF the
State procurable for cooperage, and the best
methods of treating the same; and to make
ANALYSIS of soils, wines, brandies and grapes,
at the proper request of citizens of the
State; also, to prepare comprehensive an
alyses of the various wines and spirits
produced from grapes showing their alco-
holic strength and other properties, and
especially any deleterious authorizations
that may be discovered. The Regents shall
also cause to be prepared, printed and dis
tributed to the public, quarterly reports of
the professor in charge of this work, relat-
ing to experiments undertaken, scientific
discoveries, the progress and treatment OF
the phylloXera and other diseases OF the
vine, and such other useful information as
may be given for the better instruction OF
Yiticulturists."
Under the provisions of this Act work
has been carried on at the University
since its passage, so far as the funds avail
able for the purpose permitted. Hereto
fore the laboratory and other working
appliances and accommodations have been
so limited that the vintage work has been
severely cramped and under great disad-
vantages, especially as to the very small
scale upon which everything had 10 be
done BY the aid OF the legislative appro-
priation made in 1885, which only became
available during the present year, not only
has the laboratory been so enlarged as to
afford room for number of special stu
derts but the cellar room required for
practical work has been tripled by the ad-
dition of two basement rooms and sub
cellar, % by 46 feet, substantially built OF
brick laid in cement, with concrete floor,
well Thanksgiving full control of tenn
perature in the fermentation and after
treatment of wines. The larger scale and
ampler means with which the expert
mental and illustrative work can now be
carried on will render the methods and
results more directly applicable to the work
of wineries.