REPORT. 



Office of the President, Cornell University, 



Ithaca, N. Y., December 1, 1905. 



The Governor of the State of New York, Albamj, N. Y. 

 The Secretary of the Treasury, Washington, D. C. 

 The Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 

 The Commissioner of Agriculture, Albany, N. Y. 



Sir. — I have the honor to transmit herewth the eighteenth 

 annual report of the Agricultural Experiment Station of Cornell 

 University, in accordance with the Act of Congress of March 2, 

 1887, establishing the Station, and also the report for the year 

 ending September 30, 1905, of the work conducted under the Bureau 

 of Extension Teaching in Agriculture maintained by the State of 

 New York. 



This document contains the report of the Director and the special 

 reports of his several scientific coadjutors, as well as copies of the 

 bulletins, Nos. 222 to 232 inclusive, the Junior Naturalist Monthly, 

 new series. Vol. I, Nos. 1 to 8 inclusive, and the Home Nature-Study 

 Course leaflets, new series, Vol. I, Nos. 1 to 4 inclusive, together 

 with an itemized statement of receipts and expenditures of the Federal 

 Experiment Station, and a statement of the scheme of expenditures 

 under the State appropriation for the extension of agricultural 

 knowledge. 



The report of the Director is devoted entirely to an exhaustive 

 survey of the winter-courses in agriculture (State extension work), 

 including a history of these courses in other institutions and a detailed 

 statement of the aims, methods employed, and results accomplished 

 in this work at Cornell University. The total enrollment in these 

 courses last winter was 201, as compared with 136 the year preceding. 



The remainder of the report is arranged under 11 separate 

 headings representing the various departments under which the 

 work of the Station is carried on, and wherever necessary each 

 department is further subdivided to show precisely the work 

 which is being done under the Federal fund for experiment and 

 research and the State fund for extension teaching in agriculture, 

 respectively. 



