1 6 Report of the President. 



Tompkins county is soon to be published, and the department hopes 

 before the year is over to complete the survey of Livingston county. Two 

 bulletins, numbers 271 and 280 in the series of Agricultural Experiment 

 Station Bulletins (printed as a part of this report), were issued by the 

 department during the year, one on " The Incomes of 178 New York 

 Farms" containing valuable information as to income from actual invest- 

 ments in certain representative farms through the State, the other on 

 " Pastures in New York," of which the edition was exhausted in less 

 than a month after it was issued. The department has also carried on 

 correspondence with farmers, has conducted cooperative tests, and has 

 done work at institutes and on the farm trains sent out by the College. 



II. Department of Farm Practice. 



(a) As students are advised and expected to get practical farm experi- 

 ence before entering College or during vacation periods, and as Uni- 

 versity credit is not given for work done on the College farms under 

 the direction of this department, the registration of regular students 

 is never, of course, large. In the Winter Course in General Agriculture 

 in 1 910, however, there were enrolled 158 students. 



(b) In connection with the regular farm work investigations have 

 been continued along the lines indicated in previous reports. In addition 

 investigation was begun this year along a new line, that of testing the 

 relative efficiency of different ways of manuring land and of different 

 times of plowing. 



(c) The department has conducted cooperative experiments along 

 lines parallel to the investigations carried on at the University farms, 

 and has handled a large amount of correspondence with the farmers of 

 the State. 



III. Department of Experimental Plant-Breeding. 



(a) Instruction was given this year to 92 undergraduates (as com- 

 pared with 64 last year) and to 19 graduate students (as compared with 

 15 last year). 



(b) Supported by Federal funds appropriated under the Hatch and 

 Adams x\cts for the maintenance of the Experiment Station, this depart- 

 ment has continued its extensive and important investigations along the 

 lines, first, of producing improved varieties of timothy, corn, oats, wheat, 

 potatoes, etc., and secondly, of extending the knowledge of such funda- 

 mental laws of breeding as those of variation, inheritance, selection, 

 r.uitation, correlation, etc. It is impossible to overemphasize the value 

 and importance of research and investigation along such lines. Definite 



