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Farm Bureau Circular No. 6 



During the year eight more bureaus have organia^d. The Hst which 

 follows gives similar data for these counties, which are listed in the order 

 in which they began work. 



Nine other counties in the State are working definitely on plans of 

 organization. In some of these counties, associations have been forined 

 and in all of them committees appointed. These counties are: Madison, 

 Albany, Westchester, Rockland, Chenango, Warren, Saratoga, Sullivan, 

 Suffolk. 



Miscellaneous inquiries have been received from nearly every agri- 

 cultural county in the State, but in so far as we are aware there is no 

 definite and organized movement to bring about the formation of a farm 

 bureau in any other counties at the present time. 



The farm bureau work in New York State had its beginning in the 

 desire of a chamber of commerce and a railroad corporation to develop 

 the agricultural resources of a farming community in southern New 

 York. The advice of the College and the Government was sought, and 

 out of a conference grew a plan to employ an agricultural expert to give 

 his whole time to work in this one locality. 



In every farm bureau organized during 191 1 and in several farm bureaus 

 organized in 1912, the work was brought about through the initiative 

 of the local chamber of commerce with the substantial financial aid of 

 the Federal Government, the Crop Improvement Committee of Chicago, 

 and railroad companies. It is safe to say that without assistance from 

 these essentially non-farmer agencies, which usually amounted to about 

 $2500 per county, the first ten counties to organize farm bureaus in New 



