xii President's Letter of Transmittal 



I commend this report to the careful consideration of the Governor 

 and the Legislature. The State makes liberal (if not always quite 

 adequate) appropriations for the maintenance of its College of Agriculture, 

 and it is the duty of the authorities of the State to satisfy themselves 

 that the appropriations have been wisely and economically administered. 

 This is a standing reason for careful scrutiny of the annual report of 

 the State College of Agriculture. I merely desire to repeat what I said 

 last year, namely, that there is now an additional, special, and momentous 

 reason due to the existence of war and the imperative demand for an 

 increased production of foodstiiffs, on which, indeed, the issues of the 

 war may finally depend. And there is no other agency in the State of 

 New York which can do so much, or which, in my opinion, is doing so 

 much, to stimulate and enlarge agricultural production as the State 

 College of Agriculture, including the young men and women who have 

 studied in the institution in the past, the present student body, and, 

 above all, the members of the faculty of the College, whose ability, zeal, 

 and devotion to the cause, whether before students in classrooms and 

 laboratories, or in conferences and meetings of farmers throughout the 

 State, are beyond all praise. 



Respectfully submitted, 



JACOB GOULD SCHURMAN, 



President of Cornell University. 



