REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR. 



To the President of Cornell University : 



Sir. — I have the honor to transmit herewith the fourteenth 

 annual report of the Agricultural Experiment Station of Cornell 

 Universitj' : 



The $13,500 annually appropriated to the Station by the Federal 

 Government has been supplemented by a portion of the State 

 appropriation of $35,000 for the promotion of agricultural knowl- 

 edge throughout the State. A part of this State appropriation is 

 used for carrying on cooperative experiments and investigations on 

 several hundred farms situated in various counties, while the Fed- 

 eral appropriation is all expended at the University in scientilic and 

 field investiiJjations, 



ISio striking discoveries have been made during the year, but 

 many valuable facts have been added to our knowledge of the laws 

 and forces which dominate the profession of the farmer. The Held 

 work among the farmers gives abundant material for work in the 

 scientific departments and \i also furnishes opportunity to test in the 

 field the results secured in the laboratories. The hearty coopera- 

 tion of the professors in the laboratories and the farmers in the 

 fields furnish ideal conditions for securing workable scientific data. 



It w^ill give you pleasure to learn that the farmers are cooperating 

 with us in a most friendly and intelligent way. There has been 

 such a marked improvement in this respect since we have cooper- 

 ated with the farmer at his home as to justify me in the belief that 

 our methods of conducting investigations are at least good if not 

 superior. I believe that during the last year we have done more 

 toward the promotion of agricultural knowdedge and research than 

 in any other year since the Station has been established. 



The Farmers' Heading Course assists us materially in securing 

 intelligent, self-sacrificing and progressive investigators. . 



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