10 Report OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE 
WHAT THE NEW YORK STATE AGRICULTURAL EXPERI- 
MENT STATION IS DOING FOR THE FARMER... 
An address given at the Farmers’ Institute, held at Auburn, by Dr. PETER | 
COLLIER, Director N. Y. Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, N. Y. 
The New York Agricultural Experiment Station. 
June 26, 1880, an act was passed establishing an agricultural 
experiment station, the object of which was set forth in section 
1 of the act whiclk reads as follows: “For the purpose of pro- 
moting agriculture in its various branches by scientific investi- 
gation and experiment.” 
Some little time was expended in the selection and purchase of 
a suitable location, the result being that upon February, 1882, a 
deed was executed transferring to the State of New York approxi-- 
mately 125 acres of land near the village of Geneva, Ontario 
county. ‘The experiment station therefore is now in the eleventh 
year of its active life. 
During all these years it has regularly published an annual 
report which in addition to the many bulletins which have been 
issued, have enabled all who have chosen to avail themselves of 
these publications to possess constant information of the work 
during all these years of its existence. 
It is, however, a matter rather for regret than surprise that 
comparatively few of our farmers are in possession of this infor- 
mation which by careful experimentation and constant labor is 
obtained for their benefit by those engaged in the work of the 
station, and questions are constantly asked at our farmers’ insti- 
tutes which seem to prove that the objects, aims and results of 
the work at our experiment station are by no means as clearly 
understood by our farmers, for whom directly this work is being 
done, as they should be, and the director of the institutes has 
therefore thought it best to request Dr. Collier, the director of 
the station, to present briefly a statement of the work of the 
Agricultural Experiment Station. 
Personally I can say from a more or less intimate knowledge 
of the various lines of work being carried on at the station that, 
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