12 Report oF THE DIRECTOR OF THE 
REMARKS OF DR. COLLIER. 
Director of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station. 
Ladies and Gentlemen.—I am greatly under obligations to nry 
friend, Director Powell, that he has given me this opportunity to 
appear before you at this time, and especially that he has been 
good enough to have assigned for me the subject upon which I 
am to speak to you, since had I chosen it myself it might seem 
as though I had made for myself the opportunity to perhaps boast 
somewhat as to the work which we have already accomplished at 
Geneva, and upon which we are at present engaged. 
As preliminary to what I may have to say, I desire at the out- 
set to state for the information of those who may not, perhaps, 
know about the general organization of the station, that it is 
under a board of control, consisting of ten members, the Gov- 
ernor of the State being at the head; and I would say that upon 
this board there have been at least three ex-presidents of the 
State Agricultural Society and many others equally prominent 
in agricultural matters. I would add that, while this board meets 
not infrequently, they have appointed from their number an execu- 
tive committee of six members, who meet every month, and to 
whom is regularly submitted a detailed statement of the work 
which has been carried forward in each department of the sta- 
tion’s work during the preceding month. Besides an auditing 
committee, composed of three members of the board of control, — 
make personal examination of every item of expense incurred. 
It may therefore be taken for granted, I think, first, that there is 
no wasteful expenditure of public money, and also that the work 
upon which we are engaged at the station is such as will com- 
mend itself to the critical judgment of all those who may investi- 
gate it as being directly in the line of that work for which, by - 
the act of incorporation, the station was established, and directly 
calculated to render invaluable service to the farmers of the 
State, for whom directly these investigations sve boing ~*-~ned 
and carried forward. 
