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pay the expenses of an expert for either one year or two years 

 to come to the gardening sections and study the different dis- 

 eases that are now troubling the market gardeners, and we 

 are going to take advantage of that opportunity. All we 

 have to do is to advise him as to what conditions and diseases 

 are troubling us. I think that, through the New York State 

 Vegetable Growers' Association, they will be asked to suggest 

 a man from Cornell who will be able to fill the bill. 



President Greffrath : At South Lima we are very much 

 interested in the control or prevention of blight on onions. 

 I know there are other sections that are much interested in 

 that. We are also interested in trying to understand a new 

 disease that attacks our celery, causing the plant to die off 

 after the roots are nicely started, the plant later taking new 

 life as the rains come. Some specialist will have to take that 

 work up. 



Mr. Warren: Have you no Farm Bureau representative 

 in your county? 



President Greffrath : I am not positive as to that. 



Mr. Warren: If you are not in such a county, I believe 

 that you can be included, an'd the Farm Bureau is doing just 

 that kind of work. The money has been appropriated from 

 Washington to study the different diseases on the farms. If 

 that is the case, we can get quite a little help from the Farm 

 Bureau. As Mr. Cook has suggested, I believe it is a wise 

 policy to try to get the Farm Bureaus to affiliate with the 

 New York State Vegetable Growers' Association. 



Mr. Work : I am not thoroughly familiar with the Farm 

 Bureau situation. There are certainly possibilities in it. 

 The Farm Bureau idea has undoubtedly demonstrated its 

 usefulness in doing in each section the thing that is needed. 

 Our feeling here at Cornell is not one of antagonism to other 

 agencies that are aiding agricultural progress. We are vitally 

 interested in real agricultural progress, no matter what may 

 be the source of the movement. We want it to be effected as 

 efficiently as possible for the people of the whole state. 



Mr. Hay: There is one disease of lettuce prevalent prac- 

 tically throughout the state that I think none of us have been 



