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to six county fairs, to the meeting of the New York State Fruit Growers' 

 Association, to the meeting of the Western New York Horticultural 

 Society, and to the National Milk and Dairy Farm Exposition. Because 

 the building usually available for the state institutions at the State Fair 

 was occupied by federal troops, it was necessary to depart from the usual 

 type of exhibits, and the College cooperated with the New York State 

 Food Supply Commission and arranged its exhibits under the direction 

 of the latter. Departmental exhibits as such were eliminated, and a few 

 main subjects of greatest importance in the work of food production and 

 conservation were emphasized. Twelve departments supplied material for 

 these exhibits. This grouping of departments under main subjects, such 

 as milk production, potato production, and drainage, seemed to have 

 many advantages and should be considered in the preparation of future 

 exhibits. Exhibits sent to the Rochester Industrial Exposition related 

 to fruit growing, as did the exhibits to the fruit meetings. The call from 

 county fair organizations for exhibits was not urgent, as heretofore, 

 probably due to the unsettled conditions caused by the war. 



The part taken by the College in the National Milk and Dairy Farm 

 Exposition was in accordance with an act of the Legislature appropriating 

 $30,000 to be spent by the Department of Farms and Markets in coopera- 

 tion with the State College of Agriculture for the making of an exhibit 

 at this exposition. The exposition was held during the week of May 20 

 at the Grand Central Palace in New York City. In this enterprise the 

 College, through its Departments of Animal Husbandry, Dairy Industry, 

 Farm Crops, Farm Management, and Home Economics, cooperated with 

 the State Department of Farms and Markets in staging three distinct 

 units: (i) a graphic representation, by means of charts, pictures, animals, 

 feeds, model structures, and utensils, of the factors involved in the pro- 

 duction of milk, including the raising of the calf, the maintenance of the 

 cow, and the milk produced; (2) the actual manufacture on the spot of 

 butter, ice cream, and several kinds of cheese, and demonstrations of 

 milk testing and examinations for purity; and (3) demonstrations on the 

 food value of milk, and the making of milk and its products into many 

 articles of diet, which were sold to visitors at the exposition at a nominal 

 charge. The attendance for the six days of the exposition was reported 

 as 72,199. 



Fanners' Week. — The eleventh annual Farmers' Week was held at the 

 College February -ii to 16. Although the registration was about five 

 hundred less than last year, the interest was excellent and this Farmers' 

 Week was one of the best ever held at the College. The program was 

 arranged to give prominence to the subjects pertaining to food production 

 and conservation. Several lectures on subjects relating directly to the war 

 were given by persons prominent in national and state affairs. Among 



