8 Report of the President. 



hundred thousand dollars ($100,000), payable to the treasurer of 

 Cornell University on the warrant of the comptroller." 



As this money did not become available until October ist, and 

 the present report covers the year ending September 30th, it is 

 obvious that no account can be given of its expenditure. For several 

 years, however, the State had appropriated to Cornell University 

 funds for extension work in agriculture, and the results of this work 

 have been reported annually to the Commissioner of Agriculture for 

 the year ending September 30th. The present report therefore 

 properly concerns itself only with that extension work. As, how- 

 ever, during the last two years Cornell University has had charge 

 of the erection of the buildings for the State College of Agriculture 

 and has constantly been planning for the inauguration of the State 

 College which w'ent into operation on October ist, it seems proper 

 that this report should contain a full account of all the agricultural 

 activities at Cornell University, of the plans for their improvement 

 and enlargement, and of the funds by which they have been sup- 

 ported. In this way there will be a record of the condition of things 

 when the New York State College of Agriculture first went into 

 operation, which will undoubtedly be useful for future reference. 



It is natural to begin with the buildings for the New York State 

 College of Agriculture, for which the Legislature in 1904 appro- 

 priated $250,000. They comprise four members — a main building, 

 a dairy building, an agronomy building, and an animal husbandry 

 building. Of these the dairy building is now in use, and it is hoped 

 the agronomy building may be fit for use before the close of the 

 year. The main building is very nearly completed, and it seems 

 safe to predict, in spite of many delays in the past, that all the 

 buildings will be completed by the spring. It is important to call 

 attention to the fact that they have been constructed within the 

 appropriation, which will also serve to equip the buildings so as to 

 make them usable. The residue of the appropriation, however, is 

 not large enough to furnish the buildings with equipment to make 

 them as efficient as they might and should be made. The first need, 

 therefore, of the College is additional equipment. It will be seen 

 also from the reports of the Director and the heads of several 

 departments herewith annexed, that the College needs a new barn, 

 new glass houses, more land and stock, besides other facilities 

 to give lo the work of instruction and research its maximum 

 efficiency. 



The primary object of the New York State College of Agriculture 

 is to increase the productiveness and profitableness of farming. To 



