Liberty Hyde Bailey, New York State College of Agriculture and Agricultural Experiment Station records, 1903-1914.

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Liberty Hyde Bailey, New York State College of Agriculture and Agricultural Experiment Station records, 1903-1914.

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Director's files including correspondence, committee reports, and files concerning construction projects and the general administration of the college.

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Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

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L. H. (Liberty Hyde) Bailey, 1858-1954.

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New York State College of Agriculture.

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The first Farmers' Week at the New York State College of Agriculture was held in 1908. Originally held in the month of February, the program included lectures, demonstrations, competitions and contests, roundtable discussions, conferences, laboratory practice courses, entertainments, and conventions. With the creation of the New York State College of Home Economics, a Home Maker's Conference was added in 1926, and in 1928, the event was retitled Farm and Home Week. The event was part of the exte...

Cornell University

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Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954.

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Liberty Hyde Bailey was instrumental in separating Horticulture from Botany and establishing it as a distinct scientific pursuit. Born on a farm in Michigan in 1858, Liberty Hyde Bailey graduated from the Michigan Agricultural College with a degree in botany. After working with the renowned botanist Asa Gray at Harvard, he returned to Michigan to teach horticulture and landscape gardening. In 1888, he came to Cornell to build a new curriculum in practical and experimental horticulture. In 1904, ...