Commissioner of Agriculture 415 



REPORT OF NEW YORK STATE SCHOOL OF 

 AGRICULTURE AT MORRISVILLE 



October 18, 1915. 



Hon. George Beal, President, Board of Trustees, of The Neiv 

 York State School of Agriculture at Morrisville, N. Y.: 



Dear Sir: I respectfully submit my report of the work of the 

 New York State School of Agriculture at Morrisville, N. Y., for 

 the year ending September 30, 1915. 



That the report may be easily compared with those of previous 

 years, the same general plan of presentation is followed. 



REAL ESTATE 

 GIFT OF FOREST LAND 



Mr. Charles 0. Newton, a prominent citizen of Homer, 1ST. Y., 

 who is much interested in the work of the School, offered last year 

 to turn over to the Board of Trustees of the School a tract of forest 

 land comprising Town Lot No. 30, one hundred and seventy-five 

 acres, in the town of Georgetown and about ten miles from Mor- 

 risville, that the School might be enabled to teach the principles 

 of management of the farm woodlot. 



Following the acceptance of Mr. Newton's gift by the Board of 

 Trustees last fall and acting upon authority granted at that time, 

 a bill was prepared and introduced in the Legislature of 1915, 

 which would give the informal acceptance of your body the legis- 

 lative authoritv it needed to become bin din 2". 



The bill was signed by the Governor. The Attorney General 

 then took up the matter of searching the title that he might give 

 his approval as to its sufficiency. Some delay was incurred in 

 finding an individual who once owned the land and whose affidavit 

 as to his celibacy was needed. The deed was recorded in the office 

 of the Clerk of the county of Madison, September 3, 1915, in Liber 

 246, page 79. 



