Report of the President. 15 



30, 1906, is also given. And for further information there are 

 appended the series of bulletins of the Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, Nos. 2^7^ to 241 inclusive, the Junior Naturalist Monthly, 

 new series, vol. 2, Nos. i to 8 inclusive with supplements, the Cor- 

 nell Reading Course for Farmers leaflets. Series VI, Nos. 26 to 30 

 inclusive, the Cornell Reading Course for Farmers' Wives leaflets, 

 Series IV, Nos. 16 to 20 inclusive, and the Home Nature-Study 

 Course leaflets, new series, vol. II, Nos. i to 4 inclusive. 



The report of the Director is chieriy devoted to the question of 

 the proper organization of a College of Agriculture. It is a timely 

 discussion, in view of the action of the Legislature establishing a 

 State College of xA.gricultin-e at Cornell University in 1904 and pro- 

 viding for its administration in 1905. The aim of a College of 

 Agriculture is on the one hand to increase the productiveness and 

 profitableness of farming and on the other to educate the people of 

 the country for country life, to enlarge their horizon, to elevate 

 their ideals, and to make them more efficient producers and better 

 citizens. And the College addresses itself not only to students 

 present in its halls, but to farmers all over the State ; and it is not 

 only a teaching institution but also an institution of research and 

 experiment. College teaching in agriculture at Ithaca, the diffusion 

 of agricultural knowledge throughout the State of New York, and 

 original investigations and experiments with a view to new dis- 

 coveries in agricultural science — these are the threefold functions 

 of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University. 



As to the teaching of students in the College it may be pointed 

 out that the attendance is steadily increasing. In 1904-5 there were 

 508 students enrolled. About half of these were students in the 

 winter school, and the others students in the four-year course, 

 special or graduate students. The subjects of study, apart from 

 the fundamental arts and sciences, are divided by the Director into 

 the crop-growing group and the animal-growing group. The 

 former includes the fertility of the land, the breeding of plants, the 

 diseases of plants, and methods of growing and handling different 

 kinds of crops. The latter includes the feeding of animals, the 

 breeding of animals, the diseases of animals, and methods of rearing 

 and handling different kinds of animals. Besides these central 

 and fundamental agricultural subjects there are also courses on fann 

 mechanics and machinery, rural engineering, technology and manu- 

 facture, rural art, etc. 



