260 . BOARD OP AGRICULTURE. [Jan., 



come in who could not be received because there was no room. 

 We cannot, in carrying out the trust that is placed in our 

 hands of those buildings for educational purposes merely, 

 longer give those rooms to the State under these terms. Next 

 July we have got to make some other arrangement. There 

 is no danger of the Experiment Station being killed. If we 

 cannot have a sufficient buildhig we will rent, but that is 

 going to curtail our work considerably. 



Now, we want to go before the legislature and ask, in the 

 first place, for a special appropriation to put the thing on a 

 permanent basis, that it may not be left in a shanty or old 

 cabin that somebody may give it ; and, furthermore, that 

 we may have a little more to extend the work and extend 

 the scope of the institution. People are complaining all the 

 time of the difficulty of getting along on account of western 

 competition. How do western farmers get along ? What is 

 New York doing now ? Running an Experiment Station at an 

 expense of twenty-five thousand dollars a year. If we think 

 that we can compete, by taking up the old methods, with enter- 

 prising men living on newer lands than we, without adopting 

 the new methods, we are mistaken. We can hold our own 

 and a little more by adopting all the means that we have in 

 our power. We want the farmers of this State to see it in 

 the right light and to help along this movement to put the 

 Experiment Station on a firm foundation. 



One word more I wish to say. Very frequently the inquiry 

 comes up, " Why can we not get land somewhere else?" It 

 is not always that you can get land that will be as cheap in 

 the end. I know a State that wanted to found an agricultural 

 school ; it did found an agricultural school. A public-spirited 

 man came forward and gave it a farm for that school. They 

 better have paid that man half a million dollars to have kept 

 his farm. He gave them a farm of two hundred acres. It 

 was in such an inconvenient place that that State, which has 

 spent between one and two millions of dollars there, has 

 spent it at an enormous disadvantage. Now, to take a farm, 

 even if that farm is worth ten thousand dollars (the interest 

 on that would be six hundred dollars a year^, and put the 



