i6 Report of the President. 



The second function of the College is extension work. This 

 work, says the Director, comprises all those teaching enterprises 

 that aim to reach the farmers of the State and their problems in 

 the places where the problems are. No agricultural teaching is 

 at present more needful or capable of accomplishing more good in 

 the State. It is not. indeed, tb.e scholarly work of the College ; 

 but it is the bureau of publicity of agricultural knowledge. The 

 extension enterprises fall into several categories among which may 

 be mentioned reading-courses, experiments and demonstrations on 

 farms, tests and inspections, orchard and other surveys, lectures and 

 schools, correspondence, popular publications, etc. This variety of 

 work is conducted by a special staff, which is largely differentiated 

 from the teaching faculty of the College. 



There is a still more complete differentiation in regard to the third 

 function of the New York State College of Agriculture — the func- 

 tion of research and experiment. In 1904-5 the Federal appro- 

 priation available for the object was $13,500, and with an annual 

 augmentation it will, four years hence, be $27,000 annually. Already 

 two able scientists in the field of agriculture have been secured as 

 investigators, and others of the same standing will be secured in the 

 future. For just as the College is to engage in teaching students 

 and the extension department is to carry knowledge and help to the 

 farmers, so the Experiment Station must be manned with scientists 

 competent to conduct genuine investigations and original 

 experiments. 



The remainder of the full report is divided into eleven main 

 heads as follows : — 



I. In the department of Agronomy the teaching reached during 

 the year under consideration 523 students. An attempt has been 

 made to correlate the instruction in soils with that in agronomy 

 and an innovation has been introduced in securing Dr. J. G. Lipman 

 as a non-resident lecturer on soil bacteriology. The needs of this 

 department are for new barns and new glass houses in which to 

 conduct instruction and experiment. 



The Federal Experiment Station work has been carried on in a 

 series of twenty-five experiments at Cornell. Especial attention 

 has been paid to experiments relative to agricultural chemistry. A 

 small temporary bungalow has been constructed on the Mitchell 

 farm for the use of the directors of the field experiments. 



The report on State Extension Work in Agronomy shows 508 

 experiments conducted with the aid of about 300 co-operators in 



