Report of the President. 



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ment of home economics at a cost of $154,000, and appropriated for 

 immediate expenditures on these objects the sum of $200,000. 



The enlargement of material facihties will relieve the over-crowding in 

 the College in the departments mentioned, but it leaves other great depart- 

 ments just as they are, notably animal husbandry, biology and ento- 

 mology, plant physiology, plant pathology, plant-breeding, and others, 

 while the new buildings authorized cannot be used until appropriations 

 have also been made for a central heating and power plant. As indicated 

 in the report of Acting Director Webber (to which I beg to make refer- 

 ence), additional facilities are urgently needed to care for the large 

 increase in the number of students, greater this year than ever before. 

 If students at present registered in the College are to be adequately and 

 efficiently cared for some provision for the construction of the following 

 buildings and additions is imperative: 



1. A Central Heating Plant. 



2. Greenhouse additions. 



3. Animal Husbandry Buildings. 



4. Plant Industry Building (or an extension of the present Agronomy 

 Building, to relieve congestion temporarily). 



It is earnestly hoped that the Legislature may this year find it possible 

 to make provision for this much needed enlargement of the plant of the 

 College. Furthermore the regular appropriation for maintenance should 

 be increased from $200,000 to at least $225,000, plus an appropriation 

 of $75,000 for the reorganization of the extension work of the College. 

 Perhaps no part of the service of the College of Agriculture has at- 

 tracted more widespread attention than the extension work among the 

 farmers of the State. The vast majority of farmers can never come to 

 the College, and the College therefore aims to carry instruction to farmers 

 on their farms. To this end, reading courses and lecture courses have 

 been established, and a large correspondence bureau maintained. During 

 the past year special railway farm and fruit trains were utilized more 

 largely than heretofore for lectures and demonstrations in different parts 

 of the State, in northern, northwestern, northeastern, and central New 

 York. As the trains were fitted out in Ithaca, it was possible to take 

 along for illustrative purposes, not only apparatus, but also cows, poultry, 

 fruit, etc. These demonstrations and exhibits were accompanied by 

 lecturers on practical phases of horticulture, agriculture, dairying, stock- 

 breeding, etc., and the work as a whole proved exceedingly instructive, 

 and it was everywhere heartily welcomed. The extension activities of 

 the College are more fully described in the reports of the Acting Director, 



