458 HEARINGS BEFORE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE. 
additional facilities for this beneficent work. If you want further 
demonstration of the fact that we are not doing anything, I could hand 
you a long list of our graduates and former students in agriculture 
who have become eminent as investigators in experiment stations, as 
teachers in agricultural colleges, as practical farmers, scattered not 
only over New York State, but over the entire country. 
I was told a little while ago, when I had the honor of being presented 
to the members of your committee, that the gentleman from Wiscon- 
sin, Mr. Adams, is a practical farmer. Well, Mr. Adams will 
recall that the work of agricultural education has been inaugurated 
and successfully carried on in Wisconsin by a Cornell man; and when 
I made a trip last winter, going into ten or twelve States, visiting all 
of the foremost agricultural colleges. of the country, with a view of 
possibly. getting information that would lead to the improvement of 
our own work, the thing that surprised me most was the number of 
our own graduates that I met. At the agricultural college of Iowa, 
at Ames, I think there were 12men on the staff who were graduates of 
Cornell. You will excuse me if I go into some detail in order to 
rove to you that Cornell, which has been so severely criticized here, 
fins done work in agriculture of which we are justly proud. 
Mr. Burieson. Do you not think it is possible that the Secretary, 
when he used that expression ‘‘never did anything,” meant along the 
line of soil physics? 
President ScHuRMANN. I should be glad if that were the meaning. 
And I think it is very likely that the statement went to the press with- 
out the Secretary reading it. 
Mr. Burieson. I heard the Secretary make that statement, and that 
was the impression it made on me—that he meant that to apply to 
what you had done along the line of soil physics. 
Mr. Bowrs. It is possible that this did not convey the shade of 
meaning that he had in his mind. 
A Memeer. That might be disproved and utterly discredited, how- 
ever, by the words which follow these. 
They have disgusted the State of New York to such an extent that in despair it 
had to go and establish an experimental station under its own auspices at Geneva. 
President Scaurmann. I want to say that Iam not in any way reflect- 
ing on the Secretary of Agriculture, and I am here simply to correct. 
errors in your records. They may have been made through the fault 
of the stenographer. 
The next sentence, to which reference has just been made, is as 
follows: 
They have disgusted the State of New York to such an extent that in despair it 
had to establish an experimental station under its own auspices at Geneva. . 
That can be refuted, and fortunately for me, it can be refuted con- 
clusively and briefly. Does it refer to the experimental-station work 
or does it refer to the teaching work? Let us assume, first, that it 
refers to the experimental work. Then the answer is that the state- 
ment therein contained can not be true, because the experiment station 
under the Hatch Act of 1887 was organized in Cornell University in 
1888, and the State experiment station in Geneva was founded in 1880. 
Itcan not, therefore, refer toinvestigations. Canit, then, refer to teach- 
ing? Does it mean that Cornell disgusted the State by its teaching in 
agriculture, and therefore the State founded a better institution at 
