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of the handwork of such professions. The process 

 of evolution throughout the country has been toward 

 the University rather than separate colleges of me- 

 chanic arts and in recognition of this principle the 

 universities of other states have in many cases grown 

 out of the Laud Grant Act of 1862. 



The Land Grant Act was a federal provision to 

 which New York for a third of a century made no 

 substantial contribution. Agriculture during that 

 time was a cooixlinate department in Cornell Univer- 

 sity. Then in 1904 the need for larger support of 

 the agricultural work to meet the growing demands 

 of the rural population, led to the adoption of this 

 department by the State and its transformation into 

 the -New York State College of Agriculture, still co- 

 ordinate with the other colleges in the University, 

 and with the continuation of the support it had re- 

 ceived from the federal Land Grant and the private 

 endowment of Mr. Cornell through Cornell Univer- 

 sity. 



From that time the State has made increasing an- 

 nual appropriations for the maintenance and up- 

 building of the College that have enabled it to expand 

 its equipment and facilities more nearly to meet the 

 needs. The College of Agriculture is an integral 

 part of the University and is administered by its 

 board of trustees, which was enlarged at the time 

 of the creation of the State College of Agriculture, 

 by the provision for the ex-officio membership on the 

 board, of the governor, the lieutenant-governor, the 

 speaker of the assembly, the commissioner of educa- 



