REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR. 



To the President of Cornell University. 



Sir: — 



I have the honor to transmit herewith the eleventh annual report 

 of the Agricultural Experiment Station of Cornell University. The 

 influence of the Station has been greatly augmented by reason of the 

 funds provided in Chapter 128 of the Laws of 1897, and Chapter 67 

 of the Laws of 1898 of the State of New York. 



This report embraces those of the Treasurer, the Chemist, the 

 Botanist and Plant Pathologist, the Entomologist, the Agriculturist, the 

 Horticulturist and those of the Professor of Veterinary Science and the 

 Assistant Professor of Dairy Husbandry and Animal Industry ; together 

 with Appendix L of twelve bulletins; Appendix H., a detailed statement 

 of receipts and expenditures for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1898, 

 and Appendix HL, four Nature-Study Leaflets. 



The bulletins are of unusual merit and show that the work in the 

 various divisions of the Station has been conscientiously and intelligently 

 prosecuted. Ten of the bulletins relate directly to problems which are 

 of interest to all farmers, and two to special industries. The aim has 

 been to give assistance to all who are pursuing general lines of agri- 

 culture and to help and inform those who may be disposed to special- 

 ize along difficult lines which, if s.uccessful, give promise of liberal 

 rewards. 



The leaflets, four of which have been published during the year, are, 

 we believe, effecting great and beneficial results in two ways. They 

 give valuable information, and create in pupils and teachers a love for 

 nature and a desire to investigate nature's laws or modes of action. 

 The leaflets heretofore published, seven in all, have gone to many edi- 

 tions, and the number of people, young and old, who are being reached 

 and influenced directly by the bulletins and leaflets is now more than 

 sixty thousand. 



Appended is a hst, by titles, of the bulletins and leaflets issued 

 during the year: 



No. 138, Studies and Illustrations of Mushrooms. 



No. 139, Third Report upon Japanese plums. 



