Oral Histories
Interview of John Eliot Coit
University of California, Berkeley professor of citriculture and superintendent of the Citrus Experiment Station. Founder of Coit Agricultural Service.
- Subtitle:
- Some Recollections on California Agriculture
- Series:
- Interviews not in a series, part one
- Topic:
- Urban Planning and Land UseUCLA and University of California HistoryUCLA FacultyScience, Medicine, and TechnologyAgriculture
- Biographical Note:
- University of California, Berkeley professor of citriculture and superintendent of the Citrus Experiment Station. Founder of Coit Agricultural Service.
- Interviewee:
- Coit, John Eliot
- Supporting Documents:
- Records relating to the interview are located in the office of the UCLA Library's Center for Oral History Research.
- Language:
- English
- Copyright:
- Regents of the University of California, UCLA Library.
- Abstract:
- Professor of horticulture, University of Arizona; horticulturist, University of California Pathological Laboratory, Whittier, 1911; Ralph E. Smith; interview with Luther Burbank at Santa Rosa; research and teaching activities for University of California, 1911-19; role in development of Citrus Experiment Station, University of California, Riverside; Thomas F. Hunt and Charles Shaw; state participation in promotion of citrus industry; influence of California Fruit Growers Exchange; move to University of California, Berkeley, 1912; conducting summer course throughout state; work with farm bureaus during World War I; farm adviser in wartime Los Angeles County; postwar inflation and influenza; Berkeley student Robert W. Hodgson, later dean, College of Agriculture, UCLA; Coit Agricultural Service; work with private industry; efforts in development of California's avocado industry; organization of California Avocado Association, 1915; Avocado Historical Library established at Citrus Experiment Station at Riverside.