REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR. 



To the President of Cornell University . 

 Sir : 



I have the honor to transmit herewith the Twelfth Annual 

 Report of the Agricultural Experiment Station of Cornell 

 University. The work of the Station has been broadened and 

 intensified in many ways during the year. The influence of the 

 Station and allied work along agricultural lines is reaching, as 

 never before, the teachers in the schools, their pupils, and espec- 

 ially the young farmers of the state. The appreciation of the 

 efforts which are being made to place agriculture on a more 

 rational basis is marked and gratifying. No longer are the 

 results reached by the Experiment Station unjustly criticised. 

 The farmers are now in a receptive mood and many of them are 

 adopting methods suggested by reading the bulletins. One cor- 

 respondent who owns a large farm says, " Your bulletins are 

 highly prized as they give most valuable suggestions." Another 

 says, "When I was at Cornell, many years ago, agriculture had 

 no charms for me, now, I would gladly exchange some of my 

 living and dead languages, mathematics, etc., for a knowledge of 

 dairying and small fruits." One farmer writes, " You advised 

 me with regard to soiling. I have had greater success than you 

 promised me." And still another says, "I have adopted the 

 Cornell method of raising potatoes and the yield has more than 

 doubled." These and many similar communications show how 

 eager the farmers of New York are for assistance, and that they 

 look to the Experiment Station and the College of Agriculture 

 for help and guidance. 



The Station and College are so intimately connected in the 

 work of imparting and disseminating information related to 

 rural pursuits that it is impossible to write of one without say- 

 ing something of the other. The College of Agriculture had 

 some difficulty in the early years of its existence in persuading 

 the farmers to read the bulletins and to adopt the practices 



