Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-14
STUDY FARMING AT HOME
is COLLEGES INVITATION
STATE UNIVERSITY EXTENDS ITS
COURSE
Work Is Planned Partly in Aid of
Farmers Institutes-Open
New Branch of An
thropoIogy

Special 20 The Herald
BERKELEY, Aug. 13.-Excellent read
ing courses for home study are now pro-
vided by the extension department of the
California university college of agricul-
ture.
Two such courses are offered at present
-one in economic entomology and the
other in irrigation practice and institu-
tions, These courses may be looked upon
as an outgrowth of the farmers Institutes
and are designed to amplify, and broaden
the work of such meetings.
Enrolment Is hedged about by no diff
culties. Any one desiring to read the sub
jects offered, in a systematic way, may
enroll and literature will be furnished
free of cost save transportation from and
to Berkeley.
The books and publications are chosen
as representative of the best thought and
study and experience on the questions at
issue. Students using them have the priv
ilege of consulting on difficult points mem
bers of the staff of the college of agricul-
ture at Berkeley, who are specialists in
the various lines.
1865 Students Enrolled
University extension teaching will thus
be brought directly to the students
homes. During the year just ended 165
students have been enrolled in these
courses. Thirty-seven counties of this
states and four states besides California
are represented.
An analysis of the enrolment shows
that 95 per cent of the students are di-
rectly interested in some form of agricul-
tural work-in other words, those to whom
the courses are most profitable are regis
tered.
Farmers Institutes will be conducted at
Pacific Grove on August 20 and 21, and at
CapitoIa on August % and "a. Prof. w. T.
Clarke superintendent of university ex-
tension in agriculture; Prof. F. T. Bio
letti, viticulturist of the experiment sta
ton at Berkeley; DR.. c. M. Haring OF the
veterinary department and G. Wester-
gard, expert in farm mechanics, will be
in attendance w. Fl. Volck, a former stu
dent of the university and now entomolo-
gist for Monterey and Santa Cruz coun-
ties, will cooperate with the staff from
Berkeley. Far reaching results are looked
for inasmuch as the attendance will be
made up largely of visitors gathered tenn
porarily at these seaside resorts.
This week the department of anthropol-
ogy will enter upon a field of work never
before undertaken in the state-that OF
physical anthropology.
It's purpose is to obtain as complete a
record by measurements and photographs
of the physical types of California Indians
as Is obtained of their customs and Ian
guages by myths and texts.
To this end S. A. Barrett and Prof. A.
L.. Kroeber have secured over 300 meas
urements from the half dozen principal
tribes of the coast region between this VI
cinity and the Oregon line, together with
an equal number of photographs.
The intention of the investigators is to
carry this work systematically forward
over the whole state. The ultimate result
will be the publication of an ethnograph
ical album of California, the text contain
ing the measurements and discussion of
them, the plates to show types of individ-
uals.
The summer collecting carried on by
members of the anthropological staff has
resulted very satisfactorily
In all 600 specimens have been gathered,
MANY of them never before collected for
anv museum. Several important gaps
have been filled, notably in the specimens
from the Yuk and Wailaki tribes, which
have heretofore only very slender repre-
sentation.
Some rare classes of objects have been
secured from other tribes.
Three hundred valuable photographic
records. most of them of connected series
of songs or continuous speeches and ira
ditions, have also been secured during the
ma st two or three months Barrett is now
about to leave for the extreme northeast
ern mart of the state, in which heretofore
the department has not carried on any in
vestigationS.