
New York AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION.’ ahi! 
at this juncture in our agricultural experience when farmers are 
struggling in the toils of competition and are reaching out for 
knowledge and greater information to bring to their aid in farm 
management, the station is doing much practical and valuable 
work, which, if it could be more generally disseminated, and 
farmers would take more time to note, study more carefully and 
apply the carefully worked out results to their farm practice, 
would greatly benefit them and a larger measure of prosper- 
ity would attend their work. | 
In horticulture there were never so many difficulties to meet 
as at the present time, and the station is working upon these 
thoroughly, solving some very important questions as to the 
value of varieties, the treatment of the various fungus attacks 
upon them, the knowledge of which fruit growers can not afford 
not to be in full possession of. 
The work at the station along the dairy line has been no less 
important than others. Our cheese-makers in some localities | 
have been working at serious disadvantage for years under the 
impression that by removing a portion of the butter fat from 
milk in process of manufacture they were making a small gain 
| financially, which the station has proved during the past two 
years to be a mistake beyond all question of doubt. 
While farmers’ institutes and dairy conferences are being held 
in all parts of our great State to awaken farmers to the impor- 
tance of applying more skill and intelligence in all of their meth-_ 
ods, which is doing great good, the State has equipped and fur- 
nished the experiment station in the interest of a more prosperous 
agriculture, and firmers should awaken to the privilege and 
| opportunity which is theirs to make demands upon and use its 
- work to their especial benefit, and those who do not avail them- | 
selves of the knowledge that is being worked out in these 
various lines and apply it in their farming will certainly be forced 
sooner or later to abandon their farms. 
GEO. T. POWELL, 
Director Farmers’ Institute. 

