20G Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca, N. Y. 



giving of advice everywhere by person and by letter, and of send- 

 ing an entomologist, botanist, or other expert to investigate such 

 dangers as seem to threaten any horticultural interest. The bill 

 has virtually carried the experiment station to every horticulturist's 

 plantation, and every constituent has been at liberty to call for per- 

 sonal aid whenever his troubles are of such a character that others, 

 as well as himself, are interested therein. All this work does not 

 admit of publication, and its value is all the greater for being 

 done in a quiet, unostentatious way, with no thought of public 

 recognition. 



A word shouW be said respecting the attitude of Cornell Univer- 

 sity towards this grant of funds for extension work. The reader 

 will already have noticed that the movement originated wholly with 

 the people. If the movement has value to the people of westera 

 New York, the advantage must necessarily be in proportion to the 

 public desire and demand for it. It is in every sense a popular 

 movement. Its prosecution has imposed great burdens upon the 

 officers who have had it in charge, and it has demanded important 

 chano;es and considerable sacrifice in the accustomed work of the 

 university. On the' other hand, the university exists to serve the 

 people of the state, and if the people desire that it undertake or 

 continue such an enterprise and are satisfied that it can help them, 

 then the university, on its part, stands ready to lend its men, equip- 

 ment and infiuence to assist the rural population, so far as such un- 

 dertakings do not jeopardize its more legitimate work. But it must 

 be distinctly understood that this is not a grant to Cornell Univer- 

 sity, but a grant to the people to be administered by Cornell 

 University, and that the university has refused, and must continue 

 to refuse, to take any part, directly or indirectly, in forwarding any 

 legislation connected with the work. 



Respectfully submitted, 



L. H. BAILEY. 



January 10, 1896. 



