XX Report of the Dean 



Lawrence Joseph Norton, Instructor in Farm Management. Camp 



Meade, Maryland. 

 George Robinson Phipps, Instructor in Extension Service. Captain, 



Personnel Division, Office of Chief Signal Officer, Washington, D. C. 

 Howard Jerome Ludington, Instructor in Extension Service. Ambu- 

 lance Service. 

 Cedric Hay Guise, Extension Instructor in Forestry. Instructor in 



Ground School of Aviation, Ithaca, New York. 

 Harold Deane Phillips, Instructor in Rural Economy. First Students' 



Battery, Officers' Training Camp, Camp Dix, Wrightstown, New 



Jersey. 

 E. W. Lindstrom, Investigator of Bean Production. Aviation Service, 



Ellington Field, Houston, Texas. 



Progress in research 



The members of the research staff of the College and Experiment 

 Station have continued their investigations with undiminished zeal. Many 

 of these researches are of long duration, and the more important of these 

 have been mentioned in earlier reports. An adequate report of the prog- 

 ress in research during the year would necessitate reviewing many of the 

 long-established research projects, and limits of space forbid this. Suffice 

 it to say that the conditions created by the war only confirm our convic- 

 tion as to the high importance to the State and the Nation of the kind of 

 investigations now under way ; and that in the interest of the Nation they 

 must be safeguarded to the fullest possible extent from the encroach- 

 ments of war. The food situation created by the war has revealed 

 more clearly than ever to our state and national leaders the fundamental 

 dependence of the people on the results of agricultural research. The 

 future should see larger public support given to such work. 



Further statements regarding the progress of research are made in the 

 departmental reports included later in this voltime ; and the bulletins report- 

 ing the results of investigations are bound as part of this report. 



The investigation of bean production 



Pursuant to legislative enactment, chapter 306, Laws of 191 7, the New 

 York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University has undertaken 

 the commission of making an investigation " of the bean production in 

 the State, including the ravages of diseases and of insect pests, the breeding 

 of disease-resistant or improved varieties, and of such other matters in 

 relation thereto as such college of agriculture may determine." For the 

 purposes of this investigation, experts in entomology, plant breeding, and 

 plant pathology have been employed and all necessary facilities and accu- 



