Commissioner of Agriculture 249 



Permit me to add a further word in regard to the current year, 

 which is not included in the annual report. The school made 

 exhibits and furnished advertising matter at the following fairs: 

 Wellsville, Hornell, Angelica, Cuba, and Bath. All members of 

 the faculty attended one day or more the state fair at Syracuse. 

 Preparations are being made for an exhibit at the state fair next 

 year. 



School opened on October 18, in rooms of the university build- 

 ings temporarily provided and equipped. Our enrollment for the 

 entering class is 40 regular students, 19 students who come from 

 this vicinity and take fewer than 10 hours of work in the school, 

 and 17 special students who are enrolled also in the college at 

 Alfred University, making a total enrollment in the agricultural 

 school for the first year of 7G different individuals. This is con- 

 sidered most gratifying and the work of the school is making 

 favorable progress. 



A short daily course will be offered to the dairymen of this 

 locality during the holiday week, December 27-31. There will 

 be ten 1-hour lecture periods and twenty 1^-houi? laboratory and 

 demonstration periods. Work will begin at 9 :30 in the morning 

 and extend to 3 :30 in the afternoon, giving ample time for far- 

 mers to do their chores in the morning and return home for their 

 chores in the evening. Thirty-six dairymen can be accommodated 

 in our temporary laboratories for this course. 



The principal school building and the new barn on the state 

 farm are sufficiently near completion to give promise of occu- 

 pancy in January. 



These facts, I believe, will be of interest to you and demonstrate 

 the great demand for this school in western New York. 



Following this report is appended the estimates which the board 

 has adopted as necessary to be appropriated for the next school 

 year. 



Verv respectfullv vours, 



Boothe C. Davis, 



President. 



