On the side of government, we have an active and effective 

 State Department of Agriculture. Its function is to govern. 

 Its duties are legal. In the prosecution of its work it will need 

 to make scientific investigations or to have them made for it, 

 and it will have to carry education along with much of its 

 operation ; but its work is nevertheless not research or educa- 

 tion. It is to express the regulation and control of govern- 

 ment in the country life affairs of the State. 



The farmers' institutes, lying with the Department of Agri- 

 culture, are well organized and effective, and they reach great 

 numbers of people in all parts of the State. 



On the research side, we have a State Experiment Station at 

 Geneva, a Federal Experiment Station at Ithaca, and also a 

 State Veterinary College. All of them are effective. The 

 State Experiment Station is a separate institution and is a 

 pride to all well informed citizens. It should be allowed to 

 devote itself to investigation. It will need to demonstrate 

 its work on the farms of the State, and its officers should be 

 open to the call of the people for instruction on occasion ; but 

 its real work is to strike deep for new knowledge, and public 

 demands should not divert its attention. 



The Federal Experiment Station is a part of the State Col- 

 lege of Agriculture. It is wholly impossible for. any college of 

 agriculture to be thoroughly alive and to be great unless the 

 research spirit is a part of it. Teachers of agricultural subjects 

 who do not investigate are either dead or superficial, and in 

 either case they are useless. 



On the college education side, there is a State College of 

 Agriculture and a State Veterinary College at Cornell Univer- 



