92 STATE BOAED OF AGRICULTUKE. 



OUTSIDE WORK. 



During the winter besides preparing two lectures for tlie Institutes — one of 

 which was delivered at three different j)laces, — I also gave one lecture before the 

 annual meeting of the State Pomological Society, and wrote out and illustrated 

 a Manual of the Apiary, which if we may judge from the call for it, was oppor- 

 tune in its time of appearance. These are sold at the price of thirty cents, and 

 already there have been over six hundred called for. I have also been called upon, 

 as one of the Executive Board of the State Pomological Society, to work not a 

 little for that Society. During the winter I Avas sent to Detroit for a week to 

 confer with the Executive Committee of the State Agricultural Society in refer- 

 ence to exhibiting at the Centennial, and the advisability of a Union Eair in the 

 succeeding autumn. I was also made a committee on getting electrotypes for 

 the Keport of the Society for 1875, and have been chairman of the Fi- 

 nance Committee of that Society for the year. The entire arrangement of 

 the fruit display at the State Union Eair at Jackson was under my charge, and 

 with the admirable assistance of two of our graduates, Messrs. C. W. Garfield, 

 and H. G. Keynolds, and the wife of the former, I made a classification of the 

 fruit, which was not only very instructive but absolutely imperative, if anything 

 like justice is to be done by awarding committees when such large exhibitions 

 are made. I sent out over three hundred communications before the Fair, call- 

 ing the attention of fruit men to the exhibition and the desirability of making 

 it a success. 



During the year I have been secretary of the Alumni Association, and per- 

 formed the correspondence necessary to the triennial meeting held at the Col- 

 lege tlie 23d of August. I also had charge of the triennial catalogue of the 

 officers and graduates of the College, which was published Avith the general 

 catalogue of the College. 



Early in the season, before my sickness, I had charge of a large Bible-class, 

 was also Junior Counselor in the Christian Union, and Chairman of the com- 

 mittee on Sabbath Evening Lectures. 



I had designed some experiments in Scientific and Practical Entomology, but 

 owing to my poor health, was obliged to give them up. The fields in this direc- 

 tion are white for the harvest. The only thing required is time and opportunity. 



Respectfully submitted. 



A. J. COOK. 

 State Agricultural College, ) 

 Lansing, Mich., Se2)t. SO, 1876. \ 



