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building. According to the latest report that I 

 have by me (1910), James Rice is now the head 

 of the Poultry Department at Cornell and has 1 67 

 students under him. So much can enthusiasm and 

 energy do in one line of agriculture. 



EXPERIMENTATION AND INVESTIGATION 



About 1883 I cannot fix the exact date a 

 meeting was called by President White to discuss 

 the subject of establishing an agricultural experi- 

 ment station at Cornell. There were present, as 

 I now recall, the President, the Honorable J. 

 Stanton Gould, Professor G. C. Caldwell, and my- 

 self. As a result of this meeting a bill was drawn 

 up, soon afterwards passed in the State Legisla- 

 ture without opposition, signed by Governor Cor- 

 nell, and became a law. The bill provided that 

 the Legislature should appoint three men to decide 

 upon the most favorable location for the station. 

 Before we at Cornell had a hint of what was being 

 done, the Legislative Committee selected a farm 

 near Geneva, at the foot of Seneca Lake, and re- 

 ported back to the Legislature, which approved 

 the report. It was a sharp political move : two of 

 the committeemen were enemies of Cornell and 



