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the public sense must be quickened. Moreover, the problems in 

 farm architecture are essentially agricultural problems. This is 

 particularly true of barns and stables. Practically all barn build- 

 ings must be rebuilt on fundamentally new lines if farming is to 

 be an efficient business. In the past, barns and stables have been 

 built merely to house and protect produce and animals, rather than 

 to accomplish certain definite progressive ends. The modern ideas 

 of sanitation, whereby dust is to be eliminated, are revolutionizing 

 stable construction, to say nothing of the means of securing cleanli- 

 ness in other ways, of ventilation, of sunlight, water-supplies, and 

 other necessities. Probably the best ventilated buildings now con- 

 structed are the modern cow-stables. 



Extension Work. — Although extension work of this College of 

 Agriculture has been a conspicuous feature for many years, there is 

 nevertheless great need for its enlargement. A college of agricul- 

 ture cannot confine its work to the persons who come to its labora- 

 tories and class rooms ; it must reach every person on the land. 

 There should be a thorough-going system of visitation of farms for 

 the purpose of giving advice when asked for, and to aid the farmer 

 in acquiring the most recent information and point of view. The 

 agricultural condition of every community and of the State should 

 be thoroughly known to the agricultural college; and in order that 

 this condition may be understood it is necessary that agricultural 

 surveys be made. These surveys should have for their ob- 

 ject the determining of all the conditions that go to make up failure 

 and success in farming, and to enable the college to draw general 

 conclusions for the betterment of the agricultural condition. For 

 many years this College of Agriculture has undertaken surveys of 

 one kind or another, mostly in horticultural subjects. Many years 

 ago a survey was made of the condition of the peach industry 

 in the State ; others of the condition of plum-growing and 

 quince-growing; and more recently very thorough pomological 

 surveys have been made of some of the counties, and this type 

 of survey is still in progress. The college is now making a 

 thorough study or survey of the agricultural conditions in Tompkins 

 county, preparatory to extending a similar inquiry, if funds are 

 available, to all parts of the State. It is the purpose to inspect 

 every farm in the county, and to secure first-hand information in 

 regard to its productiveness, methods employed, and the general 

 conditions that make for success or failure. This survey has been 

 under way for two years, and nine hundred and fifty farms have 

 been carefully inspected.,The following tabular statement indicates 

 the general nature of the inquiry : 



