REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR. 



To the President of Cornell University: 



Sir.- — I herewith submit a report of two general lines of work 

 conducted by the College of Agriculture of Cornell University: (1) of 

 the Federal Experiment Station for the year ending June 30, 1905; 

 (2) of the Extension Work maintained by the State of New York for 

 the year ending September 30, 1905. 



This report consists of the reports of the heads of the various 

 departments concerned, together with bulletins and nature-study 

 publications that have been published in the year between July 1, 

 1904, and September 30, 1905, except Bulletins 221, 226 and 229, 

 which have been already issued by the State. These various reports 

 explain succinctly the main lines of effort in the research work and 

 extension work of the College of Agriculture. It may be well for me, 

 however, to expand these reports by a more extended account of the 

 winter-courses in agriculture conducted at the college, since these 

 are now coming to have great importance to the agricultural interests 

 of the state. The extension work maintained by the State of New 

 York is conducted along three general lines: (1) direct teaching at 

 the university (the winter-courses); (2) correspondence teaching 

 work (reading-courses and nature-study work) ; (3) demonstrational 

 experiment work on farms in various parts of the state. 



The winter-course work which I now desire to describe falls into 

 three main .divisions : (1) the General Agricultural Winter-Course 

 designed for farm youth who do not desire to specialize; (2) the 

 Dairy-Course for those who are to make a specialty of dairy farming, 

 or who desire to conduct creameries or similar institutions; (3) the 

 Poultry-Course for those who desire to specialize in poultry husbandry. 

 It has now been determined to add two winter-courses to this list 

 for the coming winter, one on Horticultm-e, and one on Home Econ- 

 omics. 



I shall now make a general discussion of winter-course work and 

 append thereto the courses of study as given in the three winter- 

 courses for 1905, and also a hst of the students who were engaged in 

 those courses. 



The winter-course work is really unacademic work in the sense 

 that it does not require academic standards for admission, is not 

 long continued and does not lead to degrees. However, the work 



