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pletion sometime in January. Other associations will be organized 

 throughout the county as fast as a sufficient number of dairymen come to 

 appreciate work of this kind. 



Through teachers' conferences, addressed at the invitation of the district 

 superintendents, information in the teaching of agriculture has been 

 given to all the teachers in the county. More and better agricultural 

 instruction has been given by many teachers, and the prejudice against 

 life in the country has been removed from the teachings of many others 

 through the efforts of the farm bureau. 



The farm bureau has cooperated with the district superintendents 

 of schools in holding a county-wide corn-growing contest for boys and 

 girls outside of Kingston and a potato-growing contest for boys and girls 

 in Kingston. Considerable time has been devoted, in cooperation with 

 the schools, to a vegetable-growing contest throughout the county for 

 the coming year. 



The bureau also cooperated with the Department of Pomolog\^ at the 

 State College of Agriculture and the New York Central and Hudson 

 River Railroad in running a fruit-packing demonstration train through 

 the fruit sections of the county. This met with great success. 



In cooperation with the Ulster County Poultry Association there was 

 held in Kingston the most successful poultry show up to the present time. 



Through cooperation with the business men of Kingston a winter 

 agricultural fair was held, the first of its kind in the county. The way 

 has been paved for a very successful annual fair of this kind. 



A nimiber of phases of agricidture have been investigated to the point 

 where some satisfactory^ conclusions have been reached. The nature of 

 the work covers a large range of subjects, such as diseases and insect 

 pests of peaches, apples, pears, grapes, quinces, cabbages, spinach, as- 

 paragus; draining, liming, and fertilizing fields; rearrangement of buildings; 

 top-dressing of meadows; selection of heavy laying hens and breeders; 

 care of woodlots. 



Thirty-three meetings have been addressed by the manager in adver- 

 tising the bureau and in bringing certain points to the attention of com- 

 munities. Attendance at these meetings was approximately 4975. 



The attitude of the farmers toward the work of the fanii bureau since 

 they learned that an effort must be made on their part to secure an}" real 

 benefit from the bureau and that suggestions and advice were not to be 

 forced on them, has been one of the greatest friendliness. Their appre- 

 ciation of the services rendered could not but be satisfactory' to the most 

 exacting person. Farmers, young and old alike, have requested sug- 

 gestions and advice. They have willingly responded when called on for 

 assistance and are cooperating for the improvement of their communities. 



For the coming year twelve farmers want the cooperation of the farm 

 bureau in growing their first acre of alfalfa. Twelve other farmers have 

 requested instruction in pruning their orchards. They have some notion 

 of how to prune a young orchard but are looking to the bvueau to point 

 out what has been found by extensive practice to be the best method. 

 Four farmers have requested personal assistance in spraying their fruit 

 trees. These farmers are not in the fruit belt of the county, but they 

 wish to adopt the best practices in fruit growing. Five farmers want the 



