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the farm property (both the home and the farm) attractive and 

 artistic. In a larger way, it has to do with the preserving and im- 

 proving of natural scenery, with village improvement, and with the 

 general elevation of taste. The artistic handling of ordinary farm 

 properties must be left largely to the agricultural schools and col- 

 leges, because it cannot pay sufficient fees to warrant a professional 

 man to undertake it ; moreover, the desire for such handling must 

 be aroused and fostered by educating the man who lives on the land. 

 A good beginning in this outdoor art field has already been made 

 at Cornell and the work should by all means be continued and 

 extended. The entire farm area of the University should be laid 

 out with reference to good taste, making it practically a rural park 

 without in any way interfering with its agricultural utilization — 

 in fact, such lay-out should increase its agricultural utility. This 

 farm area should be organically a part of the entire University 

 domain, campus and farm developing harmoniously and consistently 

 along broad and correct artistic lines ; and all this, in turn, should 

 harmonize with the development of Ithaca and the adjoining country. 



4. Rural Architecture. — Rural architecture is for the most part 

 hopelessly inefficient and therefore hopelessly inartistic. Real farm 

 architecture will not be handled by professional architects because 

 there are no fees in it ; and, as in the case of rural art in general, the 

 public sense must be quickened. Moreover, the problems in farm 

 architecture are essentially agricultural problems. This is particu- 

 larly true of barns and stables. Practically, all barn buildings must 

 be rebuilt on fundamentally new lines if farming is to be an efficient 

 business. In the past, barns and stables have been built merely to 

 house and protect produce and animals, rather than to accomplish 

 certain definite progressive ends. The modern ideas of sanitation, 

 whereby dust is to be eliminated, are revolutionizing stable construc- 

 tion, to say nothing of means of securing cleanliness in other ways, 

 of ventilation, of sunlight, water-supplies, and other necessities. 

 Probably the best ventilated buildings now constructed are the 

 modern cow-stables. 



5. Technology and Manufacture. — Several great departments or 

 kinds of work will develop in this field. Dairy manufacture has 

 already reached a very high degree of development in several agri- 

 cultural colleges, including our own, and is completely established 

 in the public confidence, although it was a doubtful innovation only 

 a few years ago. This intelligent dairy manufacture has had an un- 

 measurable effect on dairy production and products. Therefore it 



