New York State Conference Board of Farm Organizations records, 1918-1968.

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New York State Conference Board of Farm Organizations records, 1918-1968.

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Includes minutes of meetngs (1918-1963), correspondence, lists of officers and committee members, resolutions of member organizations, legislative recommendations, checkbook stubs, and proposed budgets with rationale (1957-1966) for the New York State College of Agriculture, New York State College of Home Economics, and the New York State Veterinary College, all at Cornell University.

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New York State College of Home Economics

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Home Economics began as part of the Extension Service in 1900 with the arrival of Martha Van Rensselaer and the establishment of the Farmers' Wives Reading Course. In 1903-1904 Martha Van Rensselaer and Anna Botsford Comstock taught three courses within the College of Agriculture at Cornell University, relating to home and family life. In 1907 the Department of Home Economics was established at Cornell, with Martha Van Rensselaer and Flora Rose as its first instructors. In 1911 the two women bec...

New York State Conference Board of Farm Organizations.

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The Board was established in May 1918 by four New York farm organizations for the purpose of adopting unified positions on "issues and problems of mutual interest." By the 1960s, the Board comprised eleven state-wide agricultural organizations. From the description of New York State Conference Board of Farm Organizations records, 1918-1968. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 74897665 ...

New York State Veterinary College

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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...