Show the mission of the experiment station in 1894 the new york legislature feeling that the farmers of the state had need of all the help they could get requested the cornell experiment station to undertake extension work for the benefit of the farmers accord ing to the law under which the sta alon operates the college 0 ture is required to aid the farmers by means of experiments with crops and farm management by lectures schools teaching and any other means which promise useful results when the experiment station workers undertook to carry out this request it was found that although the stations and land grant colleges had been established for many years they were not tn touch with the ma bority of farmers this seemed to be due to the fact that much of the teaching and experimenting was too advanced to be understood or ampre elated by the average farmer it thus became evident that more elementary teaching was necessary this tact has been kept in mind therefore in the preparation of bulletins and an effort has been made to present the results of special investigations and experiments in easy readable exposi tory bulletins it has been discovered that the usefulness of a bulletin often depends quite as much on its attract ivaness as upon its subject matter that a dry bulletin does little good to most farmers even though its teach ings are of the utmost importance that such bulletins should be well printed handsomely illustrated and above all well edited and last but not least that they should be timely as the effect of many a good bulletin is lost it its publication Is delayed un til the teed for it has passed it should ever be forgotten that the experiment stations exist to help the farmers not the scientists |