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farms throughout the State. The goal is an enlargement of agri- 

 cultural knowledge, a better education for farmers, and scientific 

 method applied to the organization of their industries. 



The College and Experiment Station are doing their work well. 

 They are rendering a real and valuable service to the entire State. 

 But present and future needs demand increased facilities and 

 larger appropriations. Here are the words of Director Bailey, who 

 fully recognizes the needs and problems of the College and the 

 fields of service that lie open before it if only the Legislature and 

 the people of the State will make the necessary appropriations : 



" If you could know the requests and the demands that come to 

 this College from the folks on the farms and in the rural schools, 

 you would realize that all these problems are on us at this moment, 

 and that something worth while must be done to solve them. This 

 institution can little more than touch the spontaneous demands of 

 the people, let alone starting knew plans. We are pressed to the 

 utmost merely to keep up. Every one of the twenty departments 

 of this College must have greatly increased facilities if the country 

 life interests of the State are served as much as they need to be 

 served. 



" We are conducting reading-courses with less than 16,000 

 farmers and farmers' wives in New York, yet there are a half 

 million such in the State. We are reaching at this moment less 

 tlmn 7,000 teachers, but there are 40,000 school teachers in the State 

 and hundreds are being prepared every year. We are reaching 

 65,000 children this year, out of one and one-half million in the 

 elementary and high schools of the State. We are conducting 

 demonstration or test work on some 300 farms out of the 227,000 

 in the State. We are teaching at the rate of one student for about 

 500 farms. In this College of Agriculture, large as it has grown 

 to be, we yet have less than one student to each rural township in 

 the State. There are probably more farm girls and boys in any one 

 agricultural county in the State than are now in this College of 

 Agriculture. All this is in spite of the fact that the number of 

 students is increasing so rapidly that we cannot properly keep up 

 with the work. The value of farm property in New York in the 

 last census year was $1,069,723,895. The money appropriated for 

 maintenance of college education in agriculture is about one sixty- 

 sixth of one per cent, of this valuation. 



" Persons constantly express surprise that these buildings are 

 packed to their utmost even when they are little more than com- 



