Report of the President. '15 



tion must be made to secure additional instructors and assistants. Here 

 lies a great opportunity for service in the cause of agricultural education 

 which the College, through lack of funds, has not been able to embrace. 

 The appropriation necessary is a small one ; the buildings and equipment 

 of the College are here and ready for use. May we not hope that the 

 Legislature will this year grant the funds asked for in order that with the 

 next summer session of the University there may also be offered instruc- 

 tion in agriculture ? The demand for it is urgent and should be met ; 

 the results assured will more than justify the small outlay of funds. 



Professor Bailey, the Director of the New York State College of 

 Agriculture, was absent during the year 1909-10 on sabbatic leave. His 

 place was ably and successfully filled by Professor H. J. Webber, who 

 was appointed Acting Director, and whose report is printed herewith. 

 And for more complete information regarding the work and needs of 

 the College I beg to refer to that report, as well as the reports of the heads 

 of the departments. There are also appended, besides the financial state- 

 ment required by the law, the series of Agricultural Experiment Station 

 Bulletins for the year, Xos. 270 to 283 inclusive, the Experiment Station 

 Circular Xo. 7, the Cornell Reading Course for Farmers, leaflets, series 

 X, Nos. 46 to 50 inclusive, the Cornell Reading Course for Farmers' 

 Wives, leaflets, new series H, Nos. 6 to 8 inclusive, the Cornell Rural 

 School Leaflets, vol. HI, Nos. 2 to 8 inclusive, and vol. IV, No. i, and 

 the Home Nature-Study Course, leaflets, new series, vol. VI, Nos. 1 to 4 

 inclusive. 



For your convenience I present a brief summary of the work of each 

 of the twenty departments of the College, described in each case under 

 three headings: (a) instruction to students; (b) investigations and re- 

 search; (c) extension work among the farmers of the State. 



I. Department of Farm Management and Farm Crops. 



(a) During the year instruction was given in this department to 175 

 undergraduate and 11 graduate students. 



(b) Most of the research work of this department is carried on in 

 connection with the agricultural survey and is a part of the extension 

 work. Investigations have also been conducted into the management of 

 pastures, and the production of hay, corn, and potatoes. 



(c) In the agricultural survey, to which about half the available funds 

 have this year been devoted, the department is making at first hand a 

 very practical, exhaustive, and valuable study of actual farm manage- 

 ment, of the reasons for financial success or failure, of local conditions 

 as they affect the farmer, etc. A report of the completed survey of 



