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yet realized that education is necessary at all. It is not undue treatment in 

 freight charges, or unpatriotic preference for foreign goods, that enables the 

 small Danish hutter-farnier, for instance, to undersell the Englishman on his 

 own markets, Init superior education and scientific method applied to the 

 organization of his industry; and we may be sure of this, that it will be 

 useless to keep a man on the land, or to bring him l)ack to it, by the induce- 

 ment of ownership or any other attraction, imless we can educate him to do 

 the best for himself and for the land, in an age which calls for cultivated 

 intelligence and scientific method." 



This has always been the position of Cornell University. And 

 the State has happily adopted the policy of co-operation with the 

 University which the President outlined in his inaugural address. 

 By virtue of that policy the University now has State Colleges of 

 Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine which are. domiciled in build- 

 ings erected by the State at a cost of over $400,000, and which the 

 State supports with regular annual appropriations now aggregating 

 $180,000, besides additional grants this year of $75,000 for special 

 objects. The administration of these State colleges is a great respon- 

 sibility for the University; and trustees and faculty are striving to 

 execute the trust not only faithfully, but with the utmost wisdom, 

 devotion, and enthusiasm. That they enjoy the confidence of the 

 highest authorities of the State is happily evidenced by the language 

 with which Governor Hughes closed his notable and appreciative 

 address at the dedication of the new buildings for the College of 

 Agriculture : 



" On behalf of the State of New York, it is now my privilege and my 

 agreeable duty to commit through you [President Schurman] to Cornell 

 University the custody and control of these buildings and property, con- 

 structed and set apart by the State for the New York State College of 

 Agriculture, and through you to commit to Cornell University the administra- 

 tion of this college for the benefit of the people of the State. And in doing 

 this I take pleasure in expressing my confidence in the administration of this 

 trust by Cornell University and my expectation that through this foundation 

 the agricultural interests of the State will be notably advanced." 



The service which Cornell University through these State Col- 

 leges renders to the farmers of the State is of a three-fold character. 

 First it gives instruction in scientific agriculture and veterinary 

 medicine to the students who come to the University to pursue those 

 studies. Of these there were in 1906-1907, 86 in veterinary medi- 

 cine, in agriculture 515 (of whom 244 were students in the Winter 

 School). Secondly, it conducts investigations and experiments in 

 the production of crops of all kinds, in the rearing and breeding of 

 live stock, in the manufacture of dairy and other products, and in 

 the diseases of farm plants and animals with a view to discovering 



