New York State College of Agriculture records, 1887-1906.

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New York State College of Agriculture records, 1887-1906.

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Correspondence, memoranda, and pamphlets relating to the division of federal funds between the Geneva Experiment Station and Cornell University and to the building of the Dairy Building in 1893; transcripts of hearing before the Finance Committee of the New York State Senate, 1904; and copies of letters from John B. Chapin and William Henry Brewer to Diedrich Willers, 1906, on the New York State Agricultural College in Ovid.

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Willers, Diedrich, 1798-1883

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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...

Chapin, John B. (John Bassett), 1829-1918

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Brewer, William Henry, 1828-1910

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Brewer went to Yale in 1848 to study soil analysis with J.P. Norton. He left to teach for two years, retuned and got his Ph. D. from the Sheffield Scientific School in 1852. After Yale he went to study in Heidelberg, Munich and Paris. In 1858 he was made professor of chemistry and geology at Washington College in Pennsylvania. From 1860-1864 Brewer was first assistant on the Geological Survey of California and undertook extensive botanical surveys of areas that were still largely unexplored. In ...