1 6 Report of the President. 



It will be observed, therefore, that the activities of the College of 

 Agriculture continue to be maintained along the three well-marked 

 lines of instruction to students who attend the College, extension 

 work among the farmers of the State and their families as well as 

 teachers in the schools, and investigation and experimentation both 

 in the laboratories of the College and on selected farms throughout 

 the State. The goal is an enlargement of agricultural knowledge, a 

 better education for farmers, and scientific method applied to the or- 

 ganization of their industries. 



That the College and Experiment Station are doing their work 

 vvell. and that they are rendering a real and valuable service to the 

 entire State is amply shown in these reports of the professors in 

 charge of the several departments of study and investigation, but it 

 should be stated that the facilities of the College, both in men and 

 means, are now taxed to their full capacity by the greatly increased 

 registration of agricultural students, and as the Director points out, 

 it has already become a serious question whether in Anew of the 

 present crowded condition of classrooms and laboratories it will not 

 be necessary to consider soon the matter of limiting the number of 

 students. This, of course, would be nothing short of a calamity for 

 it is the function of the College to minister in terms of higher educa- 

 tion to the agricultural needs of the whole State, and the institution 

 would signallv fail in its first dutv if it should be forced to close its 

 doors to any citizen of the State who is mentally and physically fitted 

 to pursue and profit by its instruction. But here, at least, time and 

 space have their fixed limits, and some such recourse will be neces- 

 sary unless additional facilities are soon furnished both in teachers 

 to carry on the work of instruction and investigation and in room 

 in which this work may be conducted. It is hoped, therefore, that 

 the legislature and the State, which are already so deeply committed 

 to the support of this important work, will hear the appeal of the 

 great rural interest of the State as they are expressed in these press- 

 ing needs of the New York State College of Agriculture. 



Respectfully submitted, 



J. G. SCHURAIAN, 



President of Cornell Universitx. 



