New York State Vegetable Growers Association records, 1910-1947.

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New York State Vegetable Growers Association records, 1910-1947.

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Records, including correspondence, notes, articles, and lists, beginning with the "call to organize" in 1910 by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Dean of the New York State College of Agriculture and John Craig, Professor of Horticulture, to the organization's formalization on February 22, 1911, with Paul Work, Superintendent of the Dept. of Vegetable Gardening, as it's first Secretary, through 1947.

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Work, Paul, 1886-1959

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Craig, John, 1864-1912

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New York State Vegetable Growers Association

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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, ...

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...