STATE EXPERIMENT STATION AT GENEVA 227 



THE STATE EXPERIMENT STATION AT 

 GENEVA 



When the Federal Experiment Station was es- 

 tablished at Cornell only forty miles from the 

 State Station at Geneva, it was naturally supposed 

 that there would be some friction between them. 

 Dr. E. L. Sturtevant was chosen to be the first 

 Director of the Geneva Station and as he was a 

 reasonable and at the same time, liberal-minded 

 man, our relations during his incumbency were 

 most friendly, in spite of the antagonism of some 

 of the members of his Board of Control who 

 threatened to absorb us. The second Director of 

 the Geneva Station was Dr. Jacob Collier, who had 

 attracted some notice by his advocacy of the es- 

 tablishment of a factory for manufacturing sugar 

 from the sorghum plant (andropogan sorghum). 

 He certainly did much valuable chemical work 

 along this line and became so enthusiastic over it 

 so I have been told that the Board of Con- 

 trol at Geneva exacted a promise from him that he 

 would dismount from his hobby if he was chosen 

 Director of the Station. 



I had been in the habit of taking my class to 

 inspect the work of this Station once or twice a 

 year, but soon after Dr. Collier took charge the 



