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agricultural students, of whom at present 

 nearly 200 are enrolled. Thus Cornell 

 University is a benefactor of the State of 

 New York to the extent of conferring upon 

 it annually free instruction for 800 stu- 

 dents. On the average it costs a large and 

 well-equipped itniversity like Cornell 

 about $300 for the education of each stu- 

 dent. Cornell, therefore, annually gives to 

 the people of the State of Neiv York not 

 much less than $250,000. 



' ' The entire amount received from the 

 United States— $59,428.80 annually— does 

 not begin to provide instruction even in 

 ' such branches of learning as are related 

 to agriculture ' alone. * * * The total cost 

 of maintaining the Agricultural College at 

 Cornell University is found to be $141,- 

 061.27. 



' ' Towards the maintenance of this Agri- 

 cultural College by Cornell University, the 

 State of New York does not contribute. It 

 appropriated, a few years ago, $50,000 for 

 a Dairy building, which was intended to 

 form one wing of a great State Hall of 

 Agriculture. But that hall remains un- 

 built. 



' ' I should mention the $35,000 granted 

 to the College of Agriculture by chapter 

 430 of the laws of 1899, which can be ap- 

 plied only to the special object for which 

 it was granted, and that is the promotion 

 of agricultural knowledge throughout the 

 State by university extension methods. 

 The College is happy to aid the State in 

 so useful and helpful a work, but the Col- 

 lege itself receives no benefit from it. For 

 the sake of completeness I will add that 

 the State maintains at Cornell University 

 a New York State College of Forestry, for 

 which it makes an annual appropriation of 

 $10,000, and a New York State College of 

 Veterinary Medicine, for Avhieh it makes 

 an annual appropriation of $25,000. No 

 other appropriation of any kind, either for 



the University or for State institutions 

 located here, is received by Cornell from 

 the State of Neiu York. All the rest of 

 the revenues of the University is derived 

 from private endowments. * * * 



' ' Since the College of Agriculture was 

 established it has given instruction to more 

 than sixteen hundred stiidents in residence 

 at Ithaca, and it has become one of the fore- 

 most colleges of its kind in the United 

 States. * * * 



' ' There are in attendance at the present 

 time some two hundred students in the 

 various courses. Tuition is free in all 

 courses. During the last five years there 

 have been from ten to twenty graduate stu- 

 dents in the University each year who have 

 selected both their major and minor sub- 

 jects or their major subject in the College 

 of Agriculture. This indicates the opinion 

 that students from other colleges have of 

 the work being done here. 



' ' In addition to the students in resi- 

 dence, Ave are teaching a vast number of 

 students scattered throughout the State by 

 means of correspondence courses. This 

 work is for the promotion of agricultural 

 knowledge throughout the State. There 

 are enrolled in the Farmers' Reading 

 Course depai'tment 30,000 students; in the 

 Farmers' Wives' Reading • Course, 8,000 

 students; in the Junior Naturalists' Club, 

 about 30,000 pupils organized into 1,700 

 clubs; in the Home Nature Study Course, 

 about 1,500 teachers. * * * 



' ' Nearly five hundred farmers have con- 

 ducted experiments on their own farms 

 under the careful supervision of members 

 of the teaching force. This is in addition 

 to the investigations carried on at the Uni- 

 versity. There is scarcely a subject con- 

 nected Avith fruit or field crops that has 

 not been studied from close range in a ma- 

 jority of the counties of the State. 



' ' I cannot state accurately how many 



