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extension. 



During the summer the head of the department addressed one meeting 

 at a farmers" picnic and attended three county fairs and the State Fair 

 at Syracuse. An exhibition of spray-nozzle testing was given at the 

 College during Farmers' Week. In addition, the inquiries through the 

 mail and by visitors were attended to. 



RECOM M ENDATIONS. 



Students are asking more and more for courses specializing in plows 

 and other farm implements which cannot now be given because of the 

 inadequate laboratory facilities. Courses giving special instruction in the 

 handling of boilers and steam engines are asked for but cannot be given, 

 as there is no smokestack near the laboratory. The department needs 

 much more laboratory and exhibition space indoors, and it needs an area 

 of one or more acres of land for the testing of machines that work in 



the soil. 



HOWARD W. RILEY, 



Assistant Professor of Farm Mechanics. 



