of the State. The results of this work are published in the form of 

 bulletins which are sent free to residents of New York State. 



Up to the present time there has been issued from the Experiment 

 Station 273 different bulletins, giving the results of experiments and 

 observations. These had an average of about 24 pages each. The num- 

 ber of copies published of each bulletin ranges from 3,000 to 30,000. 



Short circulars on agricultural topics, varying in length from four 

 to eight pages and in editions from 3,000 to 10,000 copies, are also is- 

 sued from time to time. 



The size of the editions and the number of readers in each of the 

 series of publications of the College of Agriculture by no means indicate 

 the interest manifested by the people of the State in these publications. 

 It is necessary in all cases to revise and reduce the mailing list each 

 year. In the Reading- Course for Farmers, the publications are sent 

 only to those returning the question blank that goes out with each pub- 

 lication. For the Rural School Leaflets the mailing list is made up 

 entirely new each year from direct requests, yet quickly again reaches 

 the 65,000 to 75,000 limit. 



Tt is believed that it is not too high an ideal to expect that at least 

 one of the bulletins illustrating the investigations of the College should 

 go into each home in the State interested in agriculture at least once a 

 year, yet this ideal is nowhere near accomplishment, and the funds 

 available for publication will not permit such a distribution. With few 

 exceptions the editions of bulletins in all of these classes are too small 

 to meet the demands and are soon exhausted; the available funds will 

 not admit of larger editions. 



STUDENTS IN THE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE 



The number of students attending the College of Agriculture has 

 increased very rapidly in recent years. During the first twenty years, 

 from 1868 to 1887, the total number of students in any year did not 

 exceed fifty in number. In the year 1892-3 the short winter-course was 

 added, and the total number of students reached 103. There followed 

 a gradual increase until in the year 1903-4 the total registration reached 

 296. In the spring of the year 1904 the College became a State institu- 

 tion, and an appropriation granted for the erection of buildings. As a 

 result the registration for the succeeding year, 1904-5, advanced to 418. 

 From that time the increase has been constant, and in the five-year 

 period since, the registration has more than doubled, being this year a 

 total of 968 students of all grades. This increase is graphically illus- 

 trated in the accompanying chart. 



