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Harrington and Mrs. Rose Morgan, and by Professor Tuck of 

 Cornell. The latter three acquitted themselves with great credit 

 to themselves and their State, the Director being chairman of the 

 Executive Committee. The Bureau has also had representatives 

 at the New York State Fruit Growers' Association meeting, and 

 the New York State Dairy and Breeders' meeting, and has assisted 

 with the Farmers' Week programs at Morrisville, Alfred > and 

 Canton. 



One of the meetings which deserves special attention is the 

 Normal Institute, which was held at Geneva, and occupied three 

 days, November 16, 17, and 18, 1914, one day including, besides 

 the general session, a special conference for women workers. 

 Thirty-four speakers addressed the institute, covering various 

 phases of and connected with agriculture, and several profitable 

 discussions were held. The Normal report which is printed in 

 detail in Bulletin 74. Part I, contains much definite, up-to-date 

 agricultural information, and furnishes the foundation of instruc- 

 tion given by Farmers' Institute workers and farm bureau man- 

 agers. It is based on the research work of experiment stations and 

 is in harmony with the teachings of our colleges and agricultural 

 schools. The reports of instruction given from year to year in 

 these Normal institutes marks the progress of agricultural thought, 

 and, being thus preserved, should be a valuable contribution to 

 our agricultural literature. 



Following the usual custom of devoting some space to agricul- 

 tural information in addition to that given at the Normal Insti- 

 tute, there is given in full, in Bulletin 74, Part II, the entire pro- 

 gram of the Fanners' Day Meeting at Albion, N. Y., as present- 

 ing in the lectures and discussions a wealth of information on the 

 fundamentals of agriculture — the soil and its treatment, live 

 stock, poultry, farm crops, horticulture and topics related thereto, 

 as well as matters pertaining to markets, rural life, and the home. 

 This also typifies the form and character of the matter presented 

 at the institutes. 



In all this work, the endeavor has been made as always to avoid 

 the spectacular and revolutionary, and to adhere to the principles 

 of evolution. This means gradually eliminating the useless and 

 obsolete, and as gradually building in the useful and progressive, 

 thus serving the State by an endeavor to maintain and elevate to 



