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Nature-study for the home has also been attempted by this depart- 

 ment and over 10,000 lessons on birds, trees, insects, plants and fish 

 have been sent to the farm homes of the State. 



Such is the outline of the work carried on in the numerous depart- 

 ments of the College of Agriculture. The farmers of the State are 

 manifesting an increasing interest in this work, as is shown by the 

 larger demand for bulletins, leaflets and personal advice, by the 

 influx of new students, and by the hearty co-operation which is 

 given to all enterprises in experiment and research. The growing 

 and successful work of the College makes necessary an increase in 

 the provisions for its maintenance and support. Undoubtedly, the 

 Legislature in the foundation of the New York State College of 

 Agriculture contemplated an institution worthy of the Empire State 

 and commensurate with its agricultural interests. For buildings 

 and equipment the Legislature appropriated $250,000 to which was 

 added by Cornell University $40,000 as required by the law author- 

 izing the University to appropriate the former dairy building. This 

 sum of $290,000 has been spent largely on the buildings, leaving 

 only a comparatively small amount for equipment. While this 

 equipment will enable the buildings to be used, it will not draw 

 from them their maximum efficiency, or make an exhibition worthy 

 of the agricultural interests of the State of New York. An appro- 

 priation for the adequate equipment of the College should be made 

 as a direct investment in the interest of the people of the State. And 

 in the next place the College should be supplied with barns, stock 

 and farms that might serve on the one hand as models to the farmer 

 and on the other as means for the conduct of the instruction, 

 experiment and research to which the College is dedicated. As 

 agents of the State in the administration of this College, Cornell 

 University calls the attention of the Legislature to these needs. 



Respectfully submitted, 



J. G. SCHURMAN, 



President of Cornell University. 



