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A third appropriation was made by the legislature of 1896 of 

 $16,000; but since the new state constitution had abolished the 

 Fifth Judicial Department, the fund was applied to the Fourth 

 Judicial Department comprising twenty-two counties bounded 

 eastward by Jefferson, Lewis, Herkimer, Oneida, Onondaga, 

 Cayuga, Tompkins, Seneca, Yates and Steuben. 



The legislature of 1897 made a fourth appropriation, but 

 now it applies to the entire state and to agriculture in general. 

 Moreover, it is given to the College of Agriculture (not to the 

 Experiment Station) for " the promotion of agricultural knowl- 

 edge in the State." For this purpose $25,000 was appropriated. 

 The attachment of this fund to the general College of Agricul- 

 ture signalizes the outgrowth of the work from mere experiment 

 (as chiefly contemplated at first) into the general promulgation of 

 agricultural knowledge. With this new bill, the prosecution of 

 the work passed from the hands of Professor Bailey into those of 

 Professor Roberts, the Director of the College of Agriculture. 



From the first, the work has been thrown into three 

 general lines, — direct research in the orchards, vineyards and 

 gardens of western New York ; teaching by means of itiner- 

 ant schools and lectures; and the publication of horticultural 

 knowledge in bulletin form. A somewhat full account of the 

 enterprise up to nearly the time when it passed wholly from 

 Professor Bailey's hands may be found in Bulletins no and 122. 

 From the funds of the first three years — when the work was re- 

 stricted to horticulture — 49 bulletins have been published, and 

 investigations for several others have been completed. These 

 bulletins have been of five general types : i . Those which at- 

 tempt to improve the cultivation of the staple crops ; 2. Those 

 which endeavor to expound well known principles and facts ; 3. 

 Those which aim to awaken an interest in flowers and nature and 

 the amenities of rural life ; 4. Those which suggest new 

 avenues of profit ; 5. Those which attempt to monograph certain 

 difficulties (as given insects and fungi) with which the horticul- 

 turist has to contend. In all of them, it has been the desire to 

 make the matter attractive and readable, so that the entire bulle- 

 tin would be prized and kept by the recipient. 



The animus of the entire enterprise has been an attempt to 



