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the heads of the departments, and the professor of extension teaching, 

 to all of which I invite your especial attention. 



The College of Agriculture is also cooperating with business concerns 

 in the solution of agricultural problems in which they are interested. 

 These firms furnish funds for the stipend during a period of one, two, 

 or more years of a specially prepared graduate student who is required 

 to undertake the investigation of a specific scientific problem. It is a 

 species of fellowship, unendowed but salaried. And the compensation 

 ranges from $750 to $1500 a year. As the work of the holders of these 

 industrial fellowships is precisely that of a graduate student, carried on 

 in the same way, and subject to the same conditions, it is of course 

 accepted by the University in satisfaction of the research requirements 

 for an advanced degree. It is a case in which the interests of business, 

 of science, and of the graduate student are in complete accord. How 

 important a part of the functions of the College of Agriculture is the 

 work of research is evidenced by the fact that there were in 1909-10 no 

 fewer than 58 graduate students in the College, while this year (1910-11) 

 there are already registered 74 graduate students. 



In my report last year I said : " In the near future the College of 

 Agriculture must maintain in addition to its three months winter school 

 for farmers' sons and daughters a two months summer school for teachers 

 who may desire to qualify themselves to give instruction in the elements 

 of agriculture in the schools of the State." The need for a summer 

 session in agriculture for the teachers and school supervisors of the 

 State is now greater than ever, for the Legislature last year changed 

 the entire system of supervision of the schools in our village and rural 

 communities, providing also for the introduction into these schools of 

 instruction in agriculture. Candidates for the large number of district 

 superintendentships to be filled are required by the new law to have some 

 knowledge of the teaching of the science of agriculture. And the place 

 to which they and the teachers of the State naturally turn for instruc- 

 tion in this subject is the State College of Agriculture. Other colleges 

 of Cornell University ofifer opportunities during the summer session for 

 training and instruction in many fields — opportunities of which large 

 and increasing numbers of teachers eagerly avail themselves — and yet 

 the College of Agriculture has never had the funds necessary for summer 

 instruction in any of the important subjects embraced in its curriculum. 

 One difficulty is that the members of the instructing staff of the College 

 of Agriculture are already required to remain on duty during the summer 

 months in order to carry on the extension work of the College and the 

 investigations of the Experiment Station ; they cannot be burdened with 

 the additional work of summer teaching, for which a special appropria- 



