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and neighborhoods, this work has been the; forerunner and inspirer 

 of the organization of farm bureaus, the county of Tioga being a 

 notable example. In this, his home county, Mr. D. P. Witter has 

 done much work of this sort, with the result that a farm bureau 

 organization has already been formed with over four hundred 

 members — much more than the necessary ten per cent of the 

 farmers required before a bureau can receive State and Federal 

 aid. In 1916 they will secure their own farm bureau manager. 

 In the meantime Mr. Witter will do all possible for the farm 

 bureau directly under the Bureau of Farmers' Institutes. 



Experiments with fertilizers were made on the farm of The 

 Empire State Pickling Company. Phelps, 1ST. Y., 1914, under the 

 direction of D. P. Witter in extension work. 



For many years men well informed in the results from the use 

 of commercial fertilizers, have realized that when acid phosphate 

 was used on the land in liberal quantities tie use of potash was not 

 always profitable ; yet most farmers have continued to buy a larger 

 quantity of potash than of the other elements of plant food, usually 

 buying a 2-8-10 mixed fertilizer. Agents have recommended this 

 mixture, as the profit on this grade of goods is much more than on 

 the chemicals or on a better grade of mixed fertilizers. 



Results from the experiments mentioned above would seem to 

 indicate quite clearly, so far as one experiment will prove any- 

 thing, that where lime and acid phosphate are used on land other 

 than muck land, in the glacial sections of this country, the use of 

 potash is not always profitable. A detailed report of these experi- 

 ments may be found in Bulletin 74, Part I. 



COUNTY SURVEY WORK 



An entirely new line of work was undertaken in the fall of 

 1914 in the counties of Saratoga, Washington, and Warren, con- 

 tributary to Glens Falls. At the request of the Chamber of 

 Commerce of that city, Mr. John A. Ennis, of the Bureau of 

 Fanners' Institutes, with Mr. H. E. Babeock, Assistant Director 

 of Farm Bureaus, spent most of a week in the above-mentioned 

 territory, ascertaining the character of the agriculture with par- 

 ticular attention to what portion of the products of the farms were 

 marketed in Glens Falls, a wealthy city of 16,000. 



