Report of the Director xlix 



Number of olive cream made 85 



Number of pimento cbeese made 1,526 



Quarts milk handled as bottled milk 156,220 



Total amount paid to patrons $104,446.98 



Total amount received from commercial sales $122,596.36 



The prices paid to patrons are based on New York quotations for 

 butter, grade of firsts. During the last few years our prices have always 

 been above this quotation, usually not much above in the summer months, 

 but several cents in the winter when we are most in need of milk for 

 instruction. 



The butter is sold chiefly to the Ithaca grocers at 2 cents above New 

 York quotations for extras at the Dairy Department. Cheese prices are 

 also based on New York quotations for " current make." The bottled 

 milk is retailed at 7 cents per quart. 



MISCELLANEOUS ACTIVITIES 



The foregoing statements and tabulations will give some idea of the 

 complexity and also the extent of an educational establishment for 

 agriculture. The work articulates with so many public and private 

 afifairs, touches so many and so varied interests, and is so .continuous 

 throughout the year, that the burden on all members of the staff is very 

 heavy. In the single matter of correspondence, for example, the pressure 

 is great and practically uninterrupted. For the year ended September 30, 

 1912, the Secretary's of^ce of the College wrote somewhat more than 

 10,000 separate letters, not including circulars. The correspondence in 

 the different large departments of the College is also very heavy, 

 requiring the time of a large force of clerks to attend to the mechanical 

 details. In nearly six months following October i, 191 1, for example, 

 the single Department of Poultry Husbandry had written 4,282 letters 

 in addition to issuing 1,182 form-letters. These various figures are 

 indicative of the correspondence in the College at large. The pieces of 

 mail that are handled by the mailing room, in second-class and other 

 matter, of itself makes a large business ; and yet the opportunities for 

 service and the work that needs to be done are little more than touched 

 here and there. The whole problem of rural life is as yet only imperfectly 

 understood, and the means of reaching the situation are still very in- 

 adequately developed. 



The College now comprises twenty-two teaching departments. At 

 this writing there are thirty-six full professorships, between twenty and 

 thirty assistant professorships, and many instructorships. The total 

 roster, including staff and also helpers of all kinds, is more than two 



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