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Twenty-Second Annual Report of the 



The committee has made every effort to make these reports plain 

 and simple. Farm accounting is very important and must be 

 thorough enough to give an accurate idea of the farm operations 

 and results. 



Meetings of State institution farmers have been held at the Col- 

 lege of Agriculture, Ithaca, during Farmers' Week, and at Manhat- 

 tan State Hospital, Ward's Island, and the New York Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station, Geneva, during the growing season. The 

 program at Cornell covered nine days, and single day meetings 

 were held at Ward's Island and Geneva. These meetings aroused 

 interest in the work and undoubtedly have done much towards mak- 

 ing possible the results obtained. For instance, many of our gar- 

 dens do not grow vegetables long enough during the season. A 

 meeting of institution farmers within one hundred miles of New 

 York City was held at Ward's Island, September 11, and at that 

 time practically all of the garden land was growing some crop of 

 vegetables. This was a revelation to some of our people and 

 showed them what could be done. 



The profits and losses on the different branches of farms and 

 gardens at the institutions during 1914 are reported by them as 

 follows : 



Gardens 



Charitable Institutions 



INSTITUTION 



Albion .... 

 Batavia .... 



Bath 



Bedford . . . . 

 Elmira .... 

 *Green Haven 

 Hudson .... 



COST 



$520.59 



243.46 



2,445.58 



2,127.87 



878.18 



46.62 



847.89 



Industry 3,291.01 



Iroquois 551.57 



Napanoch 533.30 



Newark 570.20 



Oxford 555.84 



Randall's Island 497.95 



Ray Brook 99.45 



Rome 2,S37.09 



Sonyea 2,152.26 



Syracuse 1,104.58 



Thiells 1,753.88 



West Haverstraw 197.58 



Yorktown Heights 92.49 



Total $21,300.77 



* Included in Poughkeepsie 



VALUE 



$661.85 



664.55 



3,533.54 



1,981.86 



1,944.34 



202.02 



1,719.20 



4.551.15 



1,246.07 



1,035.23 



1,068.58 



445.36 



531.66 



91.71 



8,015.81 



5.384.57 



1,625.15 



1,887.33 



273.86 



132.75 



$36,794.57 $15,758.03 $264.23 



