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hundred and fifty. None of the departments has yet reached the normal 

 limit of its growth, for the organization is recent and much of the work 

 is novel. The members of the staff are working devotedly and almost 

 without reserve. They should have more assistance and better salaries. 

 Productive intellectual work demands an element of leisure and oppor- 

 tunity for recuperation ; and the best leadership requires a buoyant spirit. 



In the year ended September 30, 1912, we have added one new and 

 separate full professorship, that of Farm Crops, and Professor E. G. 

 Montgomery of the University of Nebraska has been chosen to the place. 

 Professor Montgomery has had good experience in teaching this subject 

 and in the experimental work underlying it, and he brings to Cornell the 

 best thought and outlook in his field. 



We greatly deplore the resignation of Dr. B. M. Duggar, who is to 

 become Research Professor of Plant Physiology at the Missouri Botanical 

 Gardens. As Professor of Plant Physiology, Dr. Duggar has developed a 

 most important piece of work in the College. His contribution has been 

 the direct, able, and decisive work of the man of science, seeking truth 

 for truth's sake, and maintaining the highest standards of scholarship and 

 attainment. 



We regret to report the death of John Craig, Professor of Horticulture 

 and head of the Department of Horticulture. Professor Craig had been 

 connected with the College for many years, serving the institution as 

 supervisor of reading-courses, popular public lecturer, and helpful asso- 

 ciate, as well as professor in his chosen department. He brought rare 

 personal qualities to the work. 



PUBLICATIONS 



Aside from the reports of the different departments transmitted here- 

 with in original manuscript, I am submitting the following publications 

 to be contained in the Annual Report to the Commissioner of Agriculture : 



A statement of the Courses of Instruction in the New York State 

 College of Agriculture for the year to begin October i, 1912. 



Bulletins of the Experiment Station as follows : 304, Substitutes for 

 Skimmed Milk in Raising Calves, E. S. Savage and G. W. Tailby, Jr. ; 305, 

 The Cause of "Apoplexy" in Winter-Fed Lambs, H. H. Wing; 306, 

 Classification of the Peony, L. D. Batchelor; 307, An Apple Orchard Sur- 

 vey of Ontario County, H. M. Martin; 308, The Plum Leaf-Miner, C. R. 

 Crosby ; 309, The Production of " Hothouse '' Lambs, E. S. Savage and 

 G. W. Tailby, Jr. ; 310, Soy Beans as a Supplementary Silage Crop, E. R. 

 Minns; 311, The Fruit-Tree Leaf-Roller, G. W. Herrick ; 312, Germina- 

 tion of Seed as Affected by Sulfuric Acid Treatment, H. H. Love and 

 C. E. Leighty ; 313, The Production of New and Improved Varieties of 

 Timothy, H. J. Webber; 314, Cooperative Tests of Corn Varieties, E. R. 



