COOPERATIVE EXPERIMENTS 1906 



COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE 

 CORNELL UNIVERSITY 



OUTLINE OF COOPERATIVE DEMONSTRATIONS TO BE 



MADE IN 1906 



The following schedule gives a list of the demonstrations or ex- 

 periments that it is proposed to make with New York farmers in the 

 season of 1906. These experiments cover some of the most important 

 of the newer problems that are just now pressing themselves on the at- 

 tention of our farmers. The list contains enough subjects to offer to 

 every farmer one or two for his particular study. We desire to cor- 

 respond with any person in the State who may wish to take up any one 

 or more of these subjects on his own place. If there are other important 

 problems pressing for solution in any locality, we should be glad to con- 

 sider them ; but in order to make the work efficient, it is necessary to 

 limit our endeavors. 



There are three purposes in this extension experiment work : ( i ) 

 To illustrate or teach, — to instruct the cooperator in methods, to set him 

 at the working out of his own problems, to bring him into touch with the 

 latest discoveries and points of view. (2) To demonstrate in various 

 parts of the State the value or the inefficiency of various new theories and 

 discoveries, — to determine how far these newer ideas are applicable to 

 local conditions. (3) To discover new truth, which may be worthy of 

 record in bulletins ; this is usually the least of the results that follow from 

 such experiments because the experiments are not under perfect control 

 nor continuously under the eye of a trained observer. 



These 55 demonstrations and experiments are in eight categories, 

 each category in charge of a specialist: I. Agronomy, J. L. Stone; 

 II. Plant Selection and Breeding, J. W. Gilmore ; III. Horticulture. John 

 Craig; lY. Entomology, M. V. Slingerland ; V. Animal Husbandry, H. H. 

 Wing; VI. Poultry Husbandry, J. E. Rice; VII. Dairy Industry, R. A. 

 Pearson ; \TII. Plant Diseases, H. H. Whetzel. Correspondence should 

 be addressed to the persons who have charge of these branches at 

 Cornell University, Ithaca. N. Y. Specify by number the experiments 

 in which you are interested. 



The general plan of work is mutual or cooperative, — the farmer to 

 provide land and labor and to have the crop, the expert to give advice and 

 supervision and, so far as possible, to inspect the work. In some cases, 



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