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for cancelling the contract by the Director at his discretion. 

 The College on its part agreed to provide the necessary labora- 

 tory equipment for the work and the necessary time of the head 

 of the department of plant pathology to oversee and direct it. 

 This cooperative arrangement was known as an Industrial Fel- 

 lowship. The young investigator was to be at the same time 

 a graduate student in Cornell University, receiving training for 

 his advanced degree along the lines of plant pathology. It was 

 further provided that this work should be conducted in a field 

 laboratory in an orchard section in some part of the State during 

 the growing season. 



About the same time a similar arrangement was entered into 

 with the Stuart Nursery Company of Newark. N. Y., for the 

 investigation and control of the fire blight and otlier diseases 

 in nursery stock. Since that time no less than twelve industrial 

 fellowships have been established in the department of plant 

 pathology in Cornell University, supporting the work of 20 

 men and representing a total of thirty-five thousand dollars 

 including the stmis being expended this year. In addition to 

 this we have had during every growing season since 1908 co- 

 operative arrangements with growers or commercial concerns 

 for the season only (about three months) by which one of these 

 young investigators is stationed in orchard, field or vineyard for 

 the purpose of trying out his efficiency in meeting some special 

 plant disease problem. This is usually understood to be pre- 

 liminary to the establishment of a two year industrial fellow- 

 ship and in most cases has so worked out. The young man has 

 made good. 



Last season we had in the field under this or similar arrange- 

 ments no less than twenty-five men in seventeen field labora- 

 tories in different counties of the State. 



This method of attacking the plant disease problems of the 

 State was a radical departure for a state institution. It was the 

 outcome of a pressing necessity and called for a new point of 

 view in state college work. This point of view may be ex- 

 pressed in the following propositions : 



I. It is the business of the State through its college of agri- 

 culture to provide the means in the form of a staff of experts 

 and equipment by which the constituency of the college may 

 be assisted in the solution of their problems. 



