1200 !New Yokk State Agkioultural Society 



for profitable emplojineiit for a ma-ximmu proportion of the year, 

 and in which each enterprise followed will give satisfactory re- 

 turns for the time and ccpiipment devoted to it."' 



'' The work will he in charge of a trained agriculturist who will 

 conduct farm management field studies and demonstrations among 

 the farmers of a given locality. lie will acquaint himself as rap- 

 idly as possible with the general agricultural conditions of the 

 locality, study the various types of soils, the crops that have been 

 found to be best adapted ; and the types of farming that have been 

 most successful on each ty})c of soil. lie will spend his entire time 

 in the interests of improved farming in the section, studying the 

 methods and practices of the most successful farmers who arc fol- 

 lowing the various types of farnung. Ke will visit the farmers 

 on their farms, study their plans, and aid tlieni in formulating 

 better plans. By the time he has become acquainted with each 

 farmer in the locality, together with the type of farming he is 

 conducting and the methods and practices that he uses, he should 

 have acquired a knowledge of the agriculture of that locality which 

 will enable him to quickly analyze the situation on any farm he 

 may visit, detect defects in the cropping systems and general man- 

 agement, and at the same time lujte any improvements that may 

 exist over methods in common use. Such a study will enable him 

 to advise the farmers in the establishment of better cropping sys- 

 tems on their farms, in the intelligent selection of better live stock, 

 better seed, and better markets. He becomes an agricultural ad- 

 visor to the farmers of that section and his opportunities for broad 

 study of general conditions enable him to understand better than 

 any one else the way in which the agriculture of that locality 

 should l)e directed." 



The success of the few county farm bureaus that have been in 

 operation (luring at least a part of the ])ast year, has been such 

 that UK ire than twenty counties of this state have taken steps to- 

 Avard securing an organization. The counties of Broome, Jeffer- 

 son, Tompkins, Herkimer, Oneida, Clinton and Cheuiung have 

 complete wwi-king oi'gani/.atinns. Niagara and St. Lawrence 

 counties will beiiiu the w.i'k .Marcli lirst. and Washington County, 

 duly h'rst. Local interest and local tiiuiucial sup])ort. at least in 

 part, will insure that sympathy and cooi)eration so necessary to 



