Herbert John Webber

Name: Some facts concerning the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University. Presented to a hearing of legislative committees. Albany, April 5, 1910 — Introduction
Author: Herbert John Webber

Some facts concerning the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University… (1915)

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“Some facts concerning the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University. Presented to a hearing of legislative committees. Albany, April 5, 1910 — Introduction”, published in 1915, is a work by Herbert John Webber. It explores elements such as farms, students and State.

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Herbert John Webber, Some facts concerning the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University… (1915)

“ The New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University, through its investigations and bulletins, its lectures and demonstrations with farmers, and its large number of students receiving instruction, is rendering its best service to the people of the State. If it has not met all expectations, it is largely because its facilities have been almost trivial as compared with the work it has been expected to do. The demands that come to the College from the folks on the farms and in the rural schools are far and away beyond the facilities for meeting them. ”

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Herbert John Webber, Some facts concerning the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University… (1915)

“ Agriculture in the United States is advancing rapidly, and nowhere is there manifest more activity or more wide-spread interest than in New York. This general activity is doubtless due largely to increased cost of living and better returns from farm products. Farm lands in the state are increasing in value and there is every evidence that we are entering a period of great agricultural development and prosperity. ”

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Herbert John Webber, Some facts concerning the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University… (1915)

“ We are conducting demonstrations or test work on some 300 farms out of the 227,000 in the State. We are teaching one student for about every 500 farms. In this College of Agriculture, large as it has grown to be, we yet have less than one student to each rural township in the State. There are probably more farm boys and girls in any one agricultural county in the State than are now in this College of Agriculture. All this is in spite of the fact that the number of students is increasing so rapidly that we cannot properly keep up with the work. ”

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Herbert John Webber, Some facts concerning the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University… (1915)

“ The state is now facing the question as to whether it will develop its existing institutions to meet their immediate demands, or whether the progress shall be arrested. The leadership in this forward movement should rest with the State College of Agriculture. It must dispense information and rouse the people by putting before them better methods and higher purposes. It must find new truth and carry the discoveries of investigators to the people on the farms. It must train teachers for the teaching of agriculture in the secondary and high schools. ”

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Herbert John Webber, Some facts concerning the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University… (1915)

“ Agriculture will always be the principal industry in the greater part of the state and the foundation of its prosperity.
With the renewed interest in agriculture, increasing demands are being made on the educational institutions of the state to provide training in agricultural subjects. Farmers want their sons and daughters to take up farming as their life work fitly prepared for it. Farmers themselves are demanding training in advanced scientific methods. City men and boys in ever increasing numbers desire to go on farms and are looking for places to secure the necessary training. ”

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Herbert John Webber, Some facts concerning the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University… (1915)

“ The capacity of the College for effective resident teaching is taxed much beyond its limits this year in caring for the 968 students; and the student body is increasing at the rate of 150 students per year. ”

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Herbert John Webber, Some facts concerning the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University… (1915)

“ The value of farm property in New York in the last census year was $1,069,723,895. The money appropriated for maintenance of college education in agriculture is about one sixty-sixth of one per cent, of the valuation. ”

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Herbert John Webber, Some facts concerning the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University… (1915)

“ The state has adopted the policy of providing institutions where such education can be obtained, having established a college of agriculture and three special schools of agriculture, besides having begun the introduction of agricultural studies into the common schools and high schools. ”

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