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various professions. But at last, the people themselves, whom 

 these foundations are intended to benefit, have felt the touch of 

 the new spirit and the quickened life, and have demanded additional 

 funds to be expended more immediately under their own direction. 

 It must be gratifying to every citizen of New York to know that 

 this State is the pioneer in this experiment station extension move- 

 ment. 



The clause in the law of 1 894 which appropriated money to the 

 Cornell Experiment Station, is as follows: "The sum of eight 

 thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby 

 appropriated out of any moneys in the treasui-y, not otherwise 

 appropriated, to be paid to the agricultural expei'iment station 

 at Cornell university for the purpose of horticultural experi- 

 ments, investigations, instruction and information, in the fifth 

 judicial department, pursuant to section eighty-seven of the agri- 

 cultural law." The law also provided that " such experiment 

 station may, with the consent and approval of the commissioner 

 of agriculture, appoint horticultural experts to assist such experi- 

 ment station in the fifth judicial department, in conducting investi- 

 gations and experiments in horticulture ; in discovering and 

 remedying the diseases of plants, vines and fruit trees ; in ascer- 

 taining the best means of fertilizing vineyard, fruit and garden 

 plantations, and of making orchards, vineyards and gardens pro- 

 lific ; in disseminating horticultural knowledge by means of lec- 

 tures or otherwise ; and in preparing and printing, for free distri- 

 bution, the results of such investigations and experiments, and 

 such other information as may be deemed desirable and profitable 

 in promoting the horticultural interests of the State. * * -5^ * 

 All of such work by such experiment station and by such experts 

 shall be under the general supervision and direction of the com- 

 missioner of agriculture." This bill became a law by the Gov- 

 ernor's signature. May 12, 189i. In the Legislature of 1895, Mr. 

 Nixon introduced a bill to continue the work, but increasing the 

 amount given to Cornell Experiment Station to $10,000. This 

 second bill became a law on the 4tli of April, 1895. 



Upon taking up the work asked for by the bill, in the early 

 summer of 1894, the Cornell Experiment Station placed the 

 immediate prosecution of the enterprise in the ^hands of a chief 



