Hog Serum Plant.-In the latter part of the year 1913 a new site was secured for the Hog Serum Laboratory located at the foot of Sixty-sixth avenue in East Oakland, and a building costing approxi The University of California Hog Serum Plant at the foot of mately $5000 was erected on piles over the tide land. This location made possible the use of salt water for flushing and keeping the entire plant in a thoroughly sanitary condition. Since the plant is adjacent Ground plan of Hog Serum Laboratory, Pens and Barn. to a railroad with spur track facilities, the cost of transporting the hogs and feed which are used at the laboratory has been reduced. An abattoir and rendering plant are near by. The virus hogs are sold to the rendering plant for fertilizer and the healthy hyperimmune hogs or those not susceptible to cholera are killed on commission at the abattoir and sold for pork at market prices. Enlargement of portion of ground plan showing interior equipment of Hog Serum Laboratory. About $1,500 has been used in the purchase of additional equipment, which makes it possible to produce the very best grade of serum. The laboratory is provided with cold storage facilities for storing serum at a low temperature. On pages 42-43 are shown ground plans, giving the location of the pens for susceptible, virus and hyperimmune hogs. SALT 42' The plant has a total capacity of about 3,000,000 cubic centimeters annually. The building is constructed of wood, with cement floors, the walls and inside roof being painted white, thus making it possible to keep the plant clean. The serum is produced in one set of rooms, while the virus is prepared in an entirely separate section of the plant. Classroom Buildings.-The classroom building, for which the Legislature appropriated $65,000, is being constructed at the University Farm. It is a brick and cement building, two stories and a basement. It is 152 feet by 91 feet 11 inches. The building contains an auditorium with a seating capacity of 640, and a library 54 by 32 feet. There is a room for social activities, seven classrooms, and eight offices, together with the usual subsidiary rooms and accommodations. Three dormitories and dining hall at the University Farm. The dormitory on the left and the left half of the dining hall has been built during the present fiscal year. Dormitory No. 3.-The third dormitory, for which the Legislature appropriated $40,000, has been erected at the University Farm during the year. It is built of wood in harmony with the previous dormitories. consisting of a basement and three stories. The basement contains two rooms suitable for class purposes. The first floor contains a large living room, while the rest of this floor and the two floors above are devoted exclusively to dormitory purposes. There are seventy-two sleeping rooms estimated to accommodate ninety-nine persons. The following table shows the living accommodations in the three dormitories: Sleeping Present Maximum rooms Dining Hall Addition.-An appropriation of $10,000 for a permanent addition to the Dining Hall gives the dining room 36 by 150 feet, and a seating capacity of 400 persons. The addition includes enlarged kitchen and storage space, baker's room and small dining room. Office Building.-A one-story building 32 by 48 feet of shingle construction on a cement foundation, with the interior finish of redwood, has been completed at approximately $2600. It contains the office of the Dean of the University Farm School and Vice Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station and the business office of the University Farm. Minor Buildings.-Through an appropriation of $20,000 for repairs and small structures it has been possible to build the office building just mentioned above, and to repair and repaint all the buildings on the University Farm, work that was very much needed. A number of separate buildings have been erected. A beef cattle barn 38 by 120 feet was constructed at a cost of $3321. The ground floor contains twenty-three box stalls and a store room, while the second story is for the storage of hay and other feed. A laying house for poultry, 25 by 50 feet, one and one-half stories high, each floor divided into two rooms, has been built at a cost of $478; while an existing building 16 by 50 feet for the storing of poultry food had a second story added at a cost of $338. A Farm Mechanics building 48 by 70 feet, one story high, of shingle construction and cement floor, has been built largely by the class in Farm Mechanics, at an approximate cost of $1565. The building is connected with the blacksmith and carpenter shops by a roof 16 by 30 feet, providing suitable covering for the traction engines and other tools. A one and one-half story building 30 by 44 feet of similar construction has been erected for the storage of tools, lumber, plumbing and other supplies, at an estimated cost of $1000. A small structure 16 by 20 feet has been erected for the special work of the Division of Entomology, while a garage 12 by 16 feet has been built, both for a nominal sum. A well has been dug for the purpose of irrigating the area devoted to vegetable gardening, to facilitate the investigations of plant pathology, at a cost of $420. It is 12 inches in diameter, 125 feet deep, cased with No. 14 galvanized pipe double. A layer of gravel was found extending from 98 to 120 feet, below which is a bed of clay. Dairy Building Repairs.-During the year improvements have been made in the Dairy Building. The stairway was changed and several partitions taken out, thereby increasing the floor space in the creamery, cheese and ice cream rooms by some seven hundred square feet. This additional space has aided materially in handling the large laboratory classes. Two new combined churns, a small power ice cream freezer, and three new cheese vats, besides other necessary equipment needed in the conducting of the commercial work, have been purchased during Feed lots at the University Farm showing cattle shed and silo erected during the year. Betterments at the Imperial Valley Farm.-The deed to the last ten acres of the Imperial Valley Experiment Farm was secured by the payment of $1250 to I. W. Gleason by the Supervisors of Imperial County. This completed the purchase of the forty acres. Several permanent improvements have been made on the farm in the last year which add greatly to the efficiency of the work done and add to the attractiveness of the place. A permanent concrete ditch 14 inches across the bottom and 15 inches across the top has been put across the front end of the farm. A concrete measuring weir with an automatic water register was installed to insure accurate measurements of water used in the various projects. A water-tight gate was put in to replace the old wooden gate. The construction of this ditch has not only made the water measurements more accurate, but has saved enough space to allow the planting of another row of trees across the forty, and will minimize the labor necessary in keeping the ditch clean of weeds and silt. All of the ditches on the place have been reconstructed. Instead of the large "Fresno" made ditches, narrower ditches were made by |