VEGETABLE GARDENING AT CORNELL 
Paurt Worx 
Superintendent and Instructor, Department of Vegetable Gardening, Cornell 
University, Ithaca, N. Y. 
For many years courses in vegetable gardening have been 
offered at the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell 
University at Ithaca. It is only within the last few years that 
this field has been developed as a specialized branch of agricul- 
ture. In October, 1913, the work was commenced as a separate 
department and the staff now includes four men who are engaged 
in teaching and one in extension work, beside the gardeners and 
the office force. 
It is the aim of the department to serve the vegetable interests 
of the state and of the country as far as possible. The prime 
need at present is for men well trained in practical experience, as 
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well as in technical knowledge, to carry forward the innumerable 
tasks which he before us — the solution of the important prob- 
lems of the field, the building up by well-planned research of a 
body of fundamental knowledge of matters pertaining to vegeta- 
ble gardening, and the dissemination of the best that is known 
through extension teaching, through winter courses, and through 
courses for regular students. The work at Cornell is being devel- 
oped in all of these lines. One member of the department gives 
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