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especial interest to the farmers of the State, and to further these 
investigations there was pressing need of increased facilities in 
barn room and accommodations, as there was no barn upon the 
place into which it was possible to drive with a load of hay or 
grain, and no facilities for weighing a load of these crops. 
The following statement, which was prepared and presented — 
before the Senate Committee on Finance, is reproduced, as it 
presents in brief the past history, the present condition and the 
pressing demands of the Station, if it is to be able to provide for 
the future work which is demanded of it by our agricultural 
community. 
Unfortunately this statement was presented to the Legislature 
at a date so near the close of the session that it could not receive 
the consideration its importance demanded, but to provide for the 
more pressing wants there was made an appropriation by the 
Legislature of the sum of eight thousand ($8,000) dollars “ for 
erection of barn, and for the purchase of farming and scientific 
- implements, live stock and fertilizers.” 
THE STATE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENTAL STATION AT GENEVA. 
Some of the Reasons why Additional Appropriations are Needed. 
The following statement is made because there appear to exist 
in certain quarters grave misconceptions as to the work of the 
Station in the past, the practical and scientific value of the work 
done, the economy of its management and the necessity of additional 
aid in order that it may enlarge its sphere of usefulness. If the 
criticisms which have occasionally been heard concerning the Sta- 
tion were just, if the statements upon which such adverse criticisms 
are based were true, or even approximately so, there can be no 
doubt of the moral and legal duty of the Legislature to abolish the 
Station at Geneva, and at once, even were it the last hour of the 
session. 7 
This statement, therefore, is made to show that the gravest error 
has been made in such criticisms, and to inform those who may be 
called upon to discuss these matters when they are presented to 
them for consideration. 
I have taken certain facts and statements from a recent address 
upon scientific agriculture by President Adams, from which I quote 
mainly from memory at this writing. 
