Report of the President. ix 



the enrollment of students for the last three years ; and every 

 indication points to an even greater increase in attendance in 

 1909-1910: 



1906-1907 1907-1908 1908-1909 



Regulars 145 Regulars 206 Regulars 273 



Specials 133 Specials 142 Specials 145 



Graduates 39 Graduates 37 Graduates 58 



Winter-Course. .244 Winter-Course. .270 Winter-Course. .364 



After going over carefully with the Director and the Acting 

 Director the present condition of the College I fully concur 

 in the proposition that either the College must be greatly 

 enlarged or the number of students must be immediately lim- 

 ited. I do not believe that either the people or the legislature 

 of the State will think it good policy to restrict or stop agricul- 

 tural education at its very beginning. And in the present case 

 there would be the worst of all reasons for stopping or restrict- 

 ing it, namely, the reason that it had been extraordinarily suc- 

 cessful. I therefore assume that the people of the State will 

 provide the necessary enlargement of the College of Agricul- 

 ture. This will include more buildings and more professors and 

 instructors. So far as buildings are concerned the new exten- 

 sion will call for more than a duplication of the existing estab- 

 lishment. There must be a new building for the poultry 

 department; a new building for plant technology, including 

 plant pathology, plant physiology, plant breeding and improve- 

 ment, botany, etc.; a new building for animal husbandry, a new 

 building with laboratories, classrooms, and auditorium for 

 winter-course students and extension work'; a new building for 

 domestic science for chemistry ; a new building for a central 

 heating and power plant; and new buildings to complete the 

 greenhouse laboratories already started. From rough prelim- 

 inary estimates it is clear that this additional plant will cost 

 from $750,000 to $1,000,000. And the regular appropriation for 

 maintenance will need to be increased from $175,000 to about 

 $250,000 a year. 



In this connection I desire to call your special attention to 

 those sections of Director Bailey's admirable report which 

 point out that, if the New York State College of Agriculture 

 is to meet the increased demand for service that the people of 

 the State are making upon it, enlarged facilities for practically 



