Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-09

branches of agriculture. horticulture, witt
culture and stock raising to a high degree
Of perfection, and the conditions for
drainage admirable. The farm crops this
year under the imperfect conditions are
very encouraging to the management. A
yield Of forty bushels of wheat was re-
ceived of a variety new to the state, and
by better farming q yield of thirty-two
bushels to the acre of the common White
Australian wheat was made, and 100 acres
sown to barley produced $500 pounds 10
the acre. Twenty-eight acres of alfalfa
produced at five cuttings nine and one
half tons of hay to the acre.
'3. AS regard the possibilities of the
school we regard them as very great. II
is located in the center of very rich and
well developed agricultural section of the
state, surrounded by an agricultural pop
ulation that is rapidly increasing and is
anxious for high education on scientific
agricultural lines.
1--WE find the work in charge of a very
capable corps of instructors who are both
earnest and enthusiastic in the work.
Surrounded with these possibilities, we
recommend that the state legislature make
sufficient appropriations from time to
time, to make 1t the finest demonstration
farm In the United States.
Most respectfully submitted by your
committee: John Tuohy Mrs M. E. Sher-
man, B. F. Walton, H. P. Eakle. jr.,
Mrs F. T. Gage, secretary"
Earthquake Investigation
The latest information on the subject Of
earthquakes has been issued by the United
State geological survey through its bureau
On structural materials. 1t Is entitled
1.-The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire
of April IS, 1906, and Their Effects on
Structures and Structural Materials. "
This report has been prepared by four
gentlemen whose opinions should be
authoritative. One Of these reports, deal
ing especially with structural problems,
has been prepared by Prof Frank Soule.
head of the department of civil engineer
ing at the University of California.
Prof. Soule's article gives a critical re-
view of earthquake and fire destruction t.
engineering and architectural structures
and lays particular stress upon the lessons
to be learned in San Francisco. His con-
clusions emphasize precautions to be
taken in future design of buildings for
cities to insure them against earthquake
weakness and to protect them from undue
fire damage.
Egyptian Excavations
The University of California has recently
received from the oxford University
GTeSS, OAIoru, IHBldHu, d HuInper u
copies of Volume II of the University of
California Publications in Graeco-Roman
Archaeology. This contains the second
part of the Tebtunis Papyri which were
discovered in Egypt in the winter of 1899
1900 by explorers working for the Univer-
sity of California at the expense Of Mrs,
Phoebe A. Hearst.
The papyri edited in the new volume
show few fragments of Greek classical
literature, the most important being p
page or so Of the long lost Greek original
of the work on the Trojan war attributed
to Dictys Of Crete. The greater part of
the papyri deals with the affairs of daily
life in Egypt during the first second and
third centuries. A. d. They show such
things as leases. deeds, contracts, bills.
inventories of property tax receipts, Ie-
ports Of government officials, legal pro-
cesses and the like There are also a
number Of letters Of private parties
These papyri have been edited with trans
Iations and notes by DR.. B. p. Grenfell
and DR.. A. S. Hunt of Queens college.
Oxford. with the assistance of DIR. Edgar
]. Goodspeed of the University of Chicago,
who deciphered many of the papyri.