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November 30, 1907. 



The Governor of the State of New York, Albany, N. Y., 

 The Secretary of the Treasury, Washington, D. C, 

 The Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, D. C, 

 The Commissioner of Agriculture, Albany, N. Y.: 



The Act of Congress, approved March 2, 1887, establishing Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Stations in connection with the Land Grant 

 Colleges, contains the following provision : " It shall be the duty of 

 each of said stations, annually, on or before the first day of 

 February, to make to the governor of the state or territory in which 

 it is located, a full and detailed report of its operations, including 

 a statement of receipts and expenditures, a copy of which report 

 shall be sent to each of said stations, to the Commissioner of 

 Agriculture, and to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United 

 States." 



And the Act of the Legislature of the State of New York, ap- 

 proved April 12, 1906, providing for the administration of the New 

 York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University, contains 

 the following provision : " The said University shall expend such 

 moneys and use of such property of the State in administering said 

 College of Agriculture as above provided, and shall report to the 

 Commissioner of Agriculture in each year on or before the first 

 day of December, a detailed statement of such expenditures and of 

 the general operations of the said College of Agriculture for the 

 year ending the thirtieth day of September then next preceding." 



In conformity with these mandates I have the honor to submit 

 on behalf of Cornell University the following report . 



My plan is to give first a general picture of the agricultural 

 situation in New York State, and then to add a condensed state- 

 ment of what is being done by the New York State College of 

 Agriculture and the Federal Experiment Station at Cornell Univer- 

 sity. These outlines are followed by the more detailed statements 

 contained in the report of the Director of the College, and his report 

 is in turn supplemented by additional reports by the heads of some 

 of the larger departments of the college. 



The census for 1900 showed that there were in round numbers 

 227,000 farms in the State of New York. Tlie value of the farm 

 property of the State was $1,069,723,895, and the value of the an- 

 nual farm products was $245,270,600, in both of which New York 

 is surpassed by Illinois, Iowa, and Ohio. The value of the flocks 



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