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OF THE BOARD OF CONTROL OF THE NEW YORK EXPERI- 
; MENT STATION. 
To the Honorable, the Legislature of the State of New York: 
The New York Agricultural Experiment Station has grown out of 
the necessities of farmers. Within the past forty years the conditions 
of success in practical farming have changed greatly; they are more 
complex , there are new elements, hindrances not known in the earlier 
husbandry of this State, natural ‘and artificial influences to increase 
the hazards of all crops, discour agements that have driven many thou- 
sands of our citizens to newer fields in the west and seriously lessened 
our own productive industry. Among these hindrances and discour- 
“ agements are the ravages of insect pest, many kinds of recent intro- 
» duction, changed character of the seasons, especially in more frequent 
~ droughts during the summer months, new and fatal diseases in flocks 
and herds, multiplication of injurious weeds, and in many localities 
serious exhaustion of soil. In the cheapened transportation of all pro- 
ducts of farm industry from the more fertile fields of the west our 
farmers have found competition against which they may contend suc- 
cessfully only by the employment of the highest skill, and even with 
that accessory, they must be content with diminished rates of profit on 
the larger capital invested. 
All these adverse influences, operating with accelerated force, have 
had visible effect in depriving the‘agriculture of this State of that en- 
couragemi it which is necessary to healthful growth and development, 
and they have also been the immediate cause of transferring to other 
States a material portion of the labor that under more favorable con- 
ditions would have remained to preserve and increase the importance 
of our of Commonwealth. In view of the increasing disabilities 
pressing heavily upon every branch of farm industry, thoughtful 
farmers lc ig ago began to seek means of relief, mainly in more  thor- 
ough tillage, better protection for farm animals, improved seeds, ex- 
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