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the Cornell University Experiment Station, is as follows : " The 

 sum of eight thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necess- 

 ary, is hereby appropriated, to be paid to the agricultural experi- 

 ment station at Cornell University, for the purpose of horticultural 

 experiments, investigations, instruction and information in the 

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

 agricultural law." The law also provides that " such experi- 

 ment station may, with the consent and approval of the commis- 

 sioner of agriculture, appoint horticultural experts to assist such 

 experiment station, in the fifth judicial department, in conduct- 

 ing investigations and experiments in horticulture ; in discover- 

 ing and remedying the disease of plants, vines and fruit-trees ; 

 in ascertaining the best means of fertilizing vineyards, fruit and 

 garden plantations, and of making orchards, vineyards and gar- 

 dens prolific ; in disseminating horticultural knowledge by means 

 of lectures or otherwise, and in preparing and printing, for free 

 distribution, the results of such investigations and experiments, 

 and such other information as may be deemed desirable and pro- 

 fitable in promoting the horticultural interests of the state. * * 



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

 such experts shall be under the general supervision and direction 

 of the commissioner of agriculture. " This bill became a law, by 

 the Governor's signature, May 12, 1894. In the legislature of 1895, 

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

 the amount given to Cornell University Experiment Station to 

 $16,000. This second bill became a law on the 4th of April, 1895. 



Upon taking up the work provided for by the bill, in the 

 early summer of 1894, the Cornell University Experiment 

 Station placed the enterprise in the hands of a chief "hor- 

 ticultural expert," in the language of the law, and Professor I^. 

 H. Bailey was chosen to that office, with the expectation that 

 most or all of the work should be completed during the summer 

 interrim. In entering upon his duties, this officer laid out three 

 general lines of work, as specified in the law, — "conducting 

 investigations and experiments," "disseminating horticultural 

 knowledge by means of lectures 'or otherwise," and " preparing 

 and printing " the results of the work. In other words, the work 

 was to be divided between research, teaching, and publication. 



