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November 30, 1909. 



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 

 Agricultural 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 expendi- 

 tures, a copy of which report shall be sent to each of said- 

 stations, to the said 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, 

 approved April 12, 1906, providing- for the administration of 

 the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell Univer- 

 sity contains the following ^provision : " The said university 

 shall expend such moneys and use 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 state- 

 ment 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 sub- 

 \ mit on behalf of Cornell University the following report: 



By its instruction of students, by its scientific investigations, 

 ^^5;:::;^ hy its extension work among the farmers of the State, the 

 New York State College of Agriculture furnishes a superb vin- 

 y^ dication of its existence. It has cost the State some money, 



2 but the results it has achieved are worth tenfold or a hundred- 



n fold all that it has cost. The limits of this Report make im- 



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