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and women who desire the specific instruction it would afford — 
them, and would do much to render the $400,000,000 at, present — 
estimated as the capital invested in the dairy interests of the: 
State, a source of greatly increased profit to our dairymen and — 
farmers. 
It was practi cally such a school which furnished the instruction 
that enabled Jesse Williams, thirty-eight years ago, to establish — 
the first cheese factory in the:State, the results of which are now 
manifest in every dairy section of the country; but even to-day 
there is no provision, should fifty, more or less, of our young men 
and women desire to secure the information which opened the — 
way of success to this pioneer in the dairy industry of the State. 
Recent inquiry has revealed the remarkable fact that in an art, 
one of the oldest in existence, and to-day in practice more 
extended than ever before in the history of the world, an art to 
which of late years and at present the attention of the inventive — 
genius of the world and the researches of science haye been 
directed to a remarkable degree, the demand for those who are in 
possession of the information discovered by science relating to the 
dairy industry, who are practically informed concerning the con- — 
venient technical devices of the inventors, far exceeds the present 
supply and the testimony from other States is to the same effect. 
Other professions and occupations appear fully supplied or over- 
stocked with those fairly equipped for the work devolving upon — 
them; but there yet remains room and remunerative employment 
for those competent to intelligently conduct the creameries, cheese 
factories and leading dairies of the State, and abundant room for 
an increased development of this industry in each of its branches. 
BRANCH STATIONS. 
During the past year the director has received very many 
letters of inquiry concerning the establishing of branch stations in ~~ 
several sections of the State. | 
I would again state the arguments which to me and obtiers | 
appear to justify the Legislature in making the necessary appro-- 
priation to carry out this plan. | 
In a State embracing so wide an extent of territory as does the — 
Empire State, with its differences of soil and climate, and with 
such great diversity of agricultural interests, it must naturally 
appear that any experiment station, wherever located, is largely _ 
a local institution, and that its results however valuable and how- 
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