Commissioner of Agriculture 361 



state fair 



The exhibit at the State Fair inaugurated last year was re- 

 peated. As indicated in the illustration, the quarters were much 

 mere ample than the previous year, the Institute Bureau proper 

 having a booth in the center of the wing of the Liberal Arts 

 Building. The cow-testing association exhibit in charge of 

 Messrs. Nicoll and Ennis was located in the corner opposite, in 

 line with the farm bureau exhibit to which it is so closely allied. 

 Located, as it was, away from other agricultural and institutional 

 exhibits, there were not the throngs about the booth that there 

 were a year ago. Nevertheless, the fact that the Institute Bureau 

 has headquarters at the Fair has become established, and to its 

 booth gravitated those seeking specific information or literature on 

 agricultural subjects, which the Bureau dispenses. Others have 

 found the booth a most acceptable place where they may express 

 themselves as to the work in their localities. 



The booth was in charge of W. F. McDonough, Assistant to 

 the Director. Messrs. McPherson, Van Wagenen and Witter were 

 each in attendance two days, the Director being present part of the 

 time. All of these found their time fully occupied. 



FARM BUREAUS 



So intimate has been the relation between the farm bureaus 

 and the Bureau of Farmers' Institutes that it was given a section 

 in the Director's report a year ago, although there was no official 

 relation between them. As noted in the introduction, the Director 

 of Farmers' Institutes is now the official head of the farm 

 bureaus as they relate to the Department of Agriculture and 

 has been made a member of the committee composed of Dean 

 B. T. Galloway and Professors G. F. Warren, J. L. Stone and 

 A. R. Mann, State College of Agriculture, Ithaca, and Director of 

 Farm Bureaus, M. C. Burritt, Ithaca, to pass on the credentials of 

 aspirants for the position of farm bureau managers. This has 

 brought the Director of Farmers' Institutes and the Director of 

 Farm Bureaus in even more intimate relations than heretofore 

 existed — to the advantage of the institutes, and, it is hoped, to 

 the bureaus. 



