Vol. LXXIII, No. 4202 
NEW YORK. JULY 4. 1014 
WEEKLY $1.00 PER YEAR. 
THE NEW DEAN OF THE AGRICULTURAL 
COLLEGE. 
Message of Dr. Beverly T. Galloway. 
R. GALLOWAY, the new Dean of the New York 
College of Agriculture, will take up the duties of 
his new office on August 1. He is not personally 
known to many of our farmers, and we felt that 
a note of introduction would be timely and appropriate 
at this time. So we asked Dr. Galloway if he cared to 
make an introductory statement upon taking up his new 
work, and offered the services of The Rural New- 
Yorker as a medium for the introduction. In response 
to this. Dr. Galloway prepared the following statement, 
which we take pleasure in putting before our readers: 
To the Farmers of New York : 
You have asked for a message to the farmers of 
the State of New York. I am pleased through you 
to give this message. I want it to be a message of 
hope and abounding faith as to what the 
future holds in store for agriculture. I 
want it also to be a message of apprecia¬ 
tion of the efforts of those who have 
struggled long and earnestly for the bet¬ 
terment of agriculture. Men like Dr. 
Bailey and Dr. Jordan need no com¬ 
mendation from me. Their work stands 
a monument to their unselfish zeal and 
the ideals for which they have labored. 
They have had profound influence for 
good in New York State, and pro¬ 
found influence for good in the nation 
at large. 
To all institutions within the State 
charged with the betterment of agricul¬ 
ture I extend greeting and the sincere 
hope and wish that the good work they 
are doing may be continued and broad¬ 
ened. The College of Agriculture of Cor¬ 
nell University will ever stand ready to 
cooperate with all institutions within the 
State to the end of co-ordinating agricul¬ 
tural activities so that the farmers and 
all others whom we serve may reap the 
fullest benefit, and may be led to still 
further aid the cause. 
The world is in the midst of a mighty 
surge of public sentiment demanding all 
kinds of reforms and all kinds of action 
to advance the cause of the man on the 
land. Any consideration of the question 
as to what is to he done for agriculture 
in the State of New York must he visual¬ 
ized from the world’s point of view. 
The world is suddenly waking up to the 
fact that food and clothing must be sup¬ 
plied to the teeming millions of its peo¬ 
ple. The world is also waking to the fact that with 
the growth of democracy the man who supplies the 
food and clothing from the soil will be content no 
longer with the life of the peasant or the serf. 
America has developed a type of farmer differing 
in many respects from any others found in the world. 
Intelligence and individualism are his marked char¬ 
acteristics. Tie is now beginning to feel the need of 
organization and combined effort in meeting the 
problems before him. The problems in New York 
State, or in any other State for that matter, are not 
those of mere production, or the mere disposal and 
distribution of the things produced. In a broad 
sense they have to do with socializing the man on 
the land, of bringing to bear all those forces which 
the State may properly bring to bear to give him an 
even chance with other men whose labors fall in 
different fields. Education is the key to the situa¬ 
tion, but the education must be sound, otherwise our 
efforts will fail. No sane man would attempt at this 
time to blueprint a final plan of rural education. 
We can feel our way only as we get the ground swell 
coming from the millions of people demanding light 
and help. 
I hope to see the State College of Agriculture in 
the forefront of every movement looking toward the 
training of leaders in rural affairs. No good work 
can go on without leadership. The College of Agri¬ 
culture in a great university is the place to train 
them. They must be gifted with knowledge and ex¬ 
perience for leadership, and enriched with the high¬ 
est ideals of living. The atmosphere of a great uni¬ 
versity begets these things. The association of dif¬ 
ferent classes of students makes for breadth of 
vision and appreciation of the work for the world at 
large, obviously no college can hope to teach or 
train successfully for any great length of time unless 
it is developing a reservoir of knowledge from which 
to draw. Research creates this reservoir. Research 
is the steadying force that holds the earnest worker 
to the truth and the highest ideals in all things. But 
truth must be vitalized and used, and here again the 
college has an important duty to perform in bring¬ 
ing its work for agricultural betterment into every 
community and every farm home of the State. The 
farmers' needs are multiplying, and will continue to 
multiply with advancing civilization. The farmer 
wants a fair share of the profits of his labor, lie 
wants home comforts, and he wants to be brought in 
touch and to keep in touch wtili the world's affairs. 
He is not a supplicant or a mendicant. He asks for 
nothing he is not entitled to receive. The college 
must appreciate all of these things and more, and 
to do so its leaders must get close to the heart of the 
people, and must never forget for an instant the in¬ 
terests of those they serve. reverly t. galloway. 
Beverly Thomas Galloway His Work. 
He was born in Millersburg. Mo., on October 10, 
1863. His father. Robert M. Galloway, was a native 
of Kentucky, a farmer and miller. Soon after the 
Civil War young Galloway came with his parents to 
Columbia. Mo., the site of the State University and 
Agricultural College. 
Galloway completed the usual minor school course, 
and began work with a view to qualifying as a phar¬ 
macist. In ISsO he gave up this work and secured a 
position on the horticultural grounds of the Agri¬ 
cultural College. He turned his attention especially 
to intensive lines of horticultural work, principally 
floriculture. In those early days there were no ex¬ 
periment stations and very little money for the con¬ 
duct of any kind of experimental work. It was re¬ 
quired of most of the agricultural and 
horticultural departments that they be 
self-supporting. This was the case at 
Columbia, and Galloway's early work 
was connected with organizing the forces 
of the institution, and shaping them so 
as to be financially successful. He spent 
four years at the institution, graduating 
from the College of Agriculture and spe¬ 
cializing afterwards in several lines of 
work at the State University. 
In 1SS4-S5 he was selected to collect 
agricultural, botanical, and other mate¬ 
rial for the New Orleans Exposition. He 
spent the Winter of 1SS4-S5 in New Or¬ 
leans at the Exposition. In 1885 he 
came back to Columbia and entered the 
horticultural department, and was put 
in charge of the general greenhouse work. 
This time he began to specialize in plant 
pathology, securing what help he could 
from one or two outside institutions, the 
only ones of the kind doing this work in 
the United States. He began to prepare 
and present papers at State horticultural 
meetings and to publish practical instruc¬ 
tions in the matter of preventing plant 
diseases in the local papers of the State 
This work he continued until 1SS7. at 
which time Congress made a small ap¬ 
propriation for the study of plant dis¬ 
eases by the Department of Agriculture. 
He came to Washington in the Summer 
of ivs" as Assistant Pathologist in the 
Section of Mycology. This section had a 
small organization for the study of plant 
diseases, with an appropriation of $0,000 
or $7,000. A year later the chief of the 
section resigned, and Norman J. Colman, the then 
Commissioner of Agriculture, appointed Galloway as 
his successor. Immediate steps were taken to place 
the work on a new basis, special attention being 
given to field demonstrations and experiments. About 
this time the State Experiment Stations were organ¬ 
ized. and through cooperation with them and with 
farmers, fruit growers, vegetable growers, and 
others, there was rapidly brought up the science of 
plant pathology. The work grew and extended, and 
was rapidly developing when Secretary James Wil¬ 
son came to the Department. 
About 1000 it became evident that the Department 
should be reorganized if proper growth was to be 
secured. Galloway was instrumental in bringing 
this about through the organization of four large 
bureaus—Plant Industry. Forestry, Chemistry, and 
Soils. All of the plant work of the Department was 
brought into the Bureau of Plant Industry, and from 
that time the growth of the Department was rapid. 
BEVERLY T. GALLOWAY. 
Dean of the New York Agricultural College. 
