REPORT OF FARMERS' INSTITUTES 



June 14, 1913. 



To Ho^^^ORABLE Calvin J. IIusox, Commissioner of A(jricu[tiire, 

 Albany, N. Y.: 



My Dear Sir. — At the completion of the calendar year of my 

 service as Director of Farmers' Institutes ending June 14, 1913, 

 I herewith submit my aimiial report. 



The summaries of w^ork done will dilier somewhat from the re- 

 port presented at the close of the fiscal year, September 30, 1913. 



Onl}^ by setting in order an outline of the actual year of service 

 can I adequately put before you and the people interested, the work 

 accomplished. 



I would put on record my appreciation of the support you have 

 personally given the work in all its branches, not the least of which 

 has been the very adequate and efficient office force put at my com- 

 mand, and of the loyal services of all the workers, particularly of 

 the men formerly in charge of the several districts ; the J^ew York 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, the State College of Agricul- 

 ture, the State Department of Education, the State Conservation 

 Commission, and the State School of Forestry at Syracuse Univer- 

 sity. In addition — and most vital — the people of the state 

 have given the work their most hearty support and cooperation. 

 This has not been confined to those directly engaged in farming, 

 but has come from many in other fields of activities. So great has 

 been and is the demand for service along the different lines of our 

 work that only the liberal appropriations heretofore made, have 

 rendered it possible to comply with them. In not a few cases we 

 have been unable to gi-ant all the meetings asked for, in order to 

 carry out other lines of endeavor seemingly fully as important or 

 even more so than the lecture work. With a reduced appropri- 

 ation the coming year, tlie people are, in many cases, making 

 possible more work by assisting financially. I shall ask for more of 



such support. 



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