376 Report of Farmers' Institutes 



Date 

 1916 Subject and Speaker Attendance 



Jan. 7 " Profitable Feeding Practices for the Dairy Herd " — 



Dr. O. C. Bowes, Columbia University 45 



Jan. 14 " Clean Milk ; Its Production and Importance to Pro- 

 ducer and Consumer " — Prof. C. W. Larson, Colum- 

 bia University 107 



Jan. 21 "Greenhouse Gardening" — W. B. Nissley, School of 



Agriculture, Farmingdale, L. 1 82 



Jan. 28 " Amateur and Commercial Flower Production " — Prof. 



E. A. White, Cornell University 100 



Feb. 4 "Beekeeping in the East"— J. H. M. Cook, Caldwell, 



N. J 85 



Feb. 11 "Beef and Veal Production in the East "— Dr. O. C. 



Bowes, Columbia University 50 



Feb. 18 " Farm Manures vs. Commercial Fertilizers " — Dr. T. H. 



Eaton, Columbia University 60 



Feb. 25 "Vegetable Gardening "— Paul Work, Cornell Uni- 

 versity 70 



March 3 " Importance and Outlook of Apple Orcharding in the 

 East " — Edward van Alstyne, Director of Farmers' 

 Institutes, Albany, N. Y 60 



March 10 " The Central Packing House and the Importance of 

 Grading and Packing Apples " — F. S. Welsh, Agri- 

 culturist, N. Y. C. R. R 50 



March 17 " Agricultural Law as Affecting Producer and Consumer 

 in New York "■ — George L. Flanders, State Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, Albany, X. Y 50 



March 24 " Farm Accounts and Farm Management " — A. J. 

 Nicoll, State Department of Agriculture, Albany, 

 N. Y 62 



March 31 "Agricultural Education; the Interrelation of Theory 

 and Practice" — Jared Van Wagenen, jr.. State 

 Department of Agriculture, Albany, X. Y 60 



April 7 "Marketing; the Paramount Problem in Farming" — 

 C. R. White, State Department of Agriculture, 

 Albany, N. Y 50 



April 14 "The Outlook for Farmers in the East"— Dr. B. T. 

 Galloway, Dean, N. Y. State College of Agricul- 

 ture, Cornell University 60 



Total attendance 1236 



This does not signify that there were 1,236 different persons 

 in attendance. From the partial list made up from address slips 

 handed in, it is concluded that from six to eight hundred different 

 persons came to the lectures during the Course. 



The subjects that most often raise questions are such as tie up 

 with farm management, marketing, fruit growing, poultry, and 

 hog production. The coming year, therefore, should look to the 

 provision of lectures and conferences by experts along these lines. 



