VEGETABLE GARDENING AT CORNELL 



Paul Woijk 



Superintendent and Instructor, Department of Vegetable Gardening, Cornell 

 University, Ithaca, N. Y. 



For many years courses in vegetable gardening have been 

 ottered 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 lie 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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