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Stewart, previous to coming to Cornell, was an assistant professor in the 

 University of Iowa for six years; he had completed the requirements 

 for the doctor's degree at Iowa. Professor William S. Taylor came from 

 the University of Texas, where for five years he was Associate Professor 

 of Agricultural Education. He had been in our Department for only 

 a few weeks when Pennsylvania State College offered him a position 

 as head of the Department of Rural Education. This position Professor 

 Taylor accepted, and he left on April i to take up his duties in 

 Pennsylvania. 



It has been necessary to provide a course in farm shop work in the 

 Department of Rural Engineering, for the conduct of which Mr. L. M. 

 Roehl was appointed; and similarly a shop course in Home Economics, 

 with Miss M. G. Ingersoll in charge. 



In cooperation with the local school authorities a demonstration depart- 

 ment of vocational agriculture has been established at Trumansburg. 

 Plans are under way to extend this feature to cover home economics 

 next year. 



Summer school 



Previous to the opening of the summer school in 191 7 the requirements 

 for admission were raised. Provision was made by which those persons 

 engaged in educational work were admitted regardless of previous academic 

 preparation; others were required to have completed at least two years 

 of work in Cornell University or some other institution of equal standing. 

 These changes were made in order that this session of the College might 

 serve in a larger measure the needs of teachers, supervisors, and super- 

 intendents. In spite of the increased requirements and the effect of the 

 war, the attendance increased from 382 in 19 16 to 405 in 191 7. 



The State Game Farm 



By act of the New York State Legislature, chapter 747. Laws of 191 7, 

 there was established a New York State Game Farm as part of the State 

 College of Agriculture, to be administered by the trustees of Cornell 

 University. Under authority of this act a tract of 176 acres, adjacent 

 to the college farm on the east, has been purchased. 



Recognizing that we are at the beginning of knowledge of our plant 

 and animal resources, this new educational enterprise takes for its scope 

 the wild life of New York State and the conservation of all that is valuable 

 on it. Beginning with the rearing of game birds and waterfowl, to replace 

 in some measure these rapidly vanishing wild groups, it is expected that 

 this work will be extended to the conservation and care of fur-bearing 

 animals, of valuable song birds, of wild flowers and useful native shrubbery, 



