6 Report of the President. 



of $30,000 for glass houses and $10,000 for extension work on farms 

 and with farmers. 



But the great event of the year for the College of Agriculture was 

 the purchase by the University of additional farm land. The Legis- 

 lative Act (chapter 655 of the Laws of 1904), appropriating $250,000 

 for buildings for the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell 

 University, contained the provision that " nothing in this act shall 

 be construed to relieve Cornell University of any of its obligations to 

 the State to provide for instruction in agriculture or otherwise and 

 the provisions of this act are intended to provide additional facilities 

 therefor." Recognizing this obligation the Trustees of the University 

 have ever had in mind the needs and requirements of the College of 

 Agriculture and so far as has been possible they have endeavored to 

 provide for those needs. An enlargement of the University farm was 

 earnestly recommended, first by Director Roberts and, since, by Di- 

 rector Bailey. The President strongly indorsed these recommenda- 

 tions but the Trustees, while concurring therein, were not agreed that 

 the time for action had arrived. The increase, however, in the number 

 of students in the College of Agriculture, the erection by the State 

 of large buildings for the use of the College, and the generous pro- 

 vision made by the State for its support, all combined, along with the 

 continuously increasing inadequacy of the present farm, to convince 

 the Trustees that additional lands should be secured at once, espe- 

 cially as local conditions were at the moment particularly favorable 

 for purchase. The matter was accordingly referred to a committee 

 with the rcsuU that a number of farms were purchased from dififerent 

 owners, which, in combination with former holdings, gives the New 

 York State College of Agriculture 579 acres for farming purposes, be- 

 sides providing 100 acres for the New York State Veterinary College 

 for an experimental station for sick animals. 



Now that the University has greatly enlarged its farms, it will be 

 possible, if State funds are available, to add to the live stock of the 

 College, which is needed as material both for demonstration to 

 students and research by professors. New York State produces about 

 one-ninth of the hay and forage of the United States, and the animal 

 industries of the State are of enormous value. This is a field, there- 

 fore, to which the instruction and investigation of the College should 

 be peculiarly directed, and the State appropriation of $25,000 for barns 

 has solved the problem of housing facilities as the purchase by the 

 University of land has solved the problems of pastures and fodder. 



The work of the College of Agriculture and of the Federal Experi- 



