something worth while must be done to solve them. This 

 institution can little more than touch the spontaneous de- 

 mands of the people, let alone starting new 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 

 than 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 \)/ 2 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 one student for about 

 every *ooe 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 boys and girls 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 increas- 

 ing so rapidly that we cannot properly keep up with the 

 work. The value of farm property in New T 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 



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