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Reflections on the Annual 
Farm and Home Conference 
Meeting 
JARED VAN WAGENEN, JR. 
1 AST week I was in Ithaca in attendance at 
_i a conference which may fairly be described 
as the big annual get-together of the agricul¬ 
tural educational forces of the State. 
To it came the Farm Bureau managers from 
the 55 agricultural counties of the State. 
Then came more than 30 young women repre¬ 
senting that number of counties which have 
organized Home Bureaus. Then there came 
numerous and varied species of the Extension 
Workers and lastly a few specimens of the 
lesser and now almost extinct breed of Farm 
Institute workers, of which I am one. 
Let me in passing give a definition of the 
term “extension” work. The idea is founded 
upon the theory that inasmuch as it is clearly 
impossible for everybody to come to the collie 
it thereby becomes the duty of the college to 
go to everybody, at least to everybody who is 
willing to receive it. Extension work, then, is 
the carrying out—the extending—of qollege- 
teaching to the man outside. Say what you 
will, it is a pretty fine conception; this idea 
that the State owes an education to all her 
citizens. It is really an extension of the free 
public school—universal education idea. 
All of us met under the patronage and with 
the help of the staff of the New York State 
College of Agriculture. Some one said that the 
conferring groups aggregated about 175, a 
fairly numerous delegation. As one of the few 
surviving members of the Old Guard which, 
like Napoleon’s famous organization, “dies 
but never surrenders,” I remember the so- 
called “Normal Institute” which many years 
ago used to meet at the Agricultural Experi¬ 
ment Station at Geneva. I do not remember 
just how many of us there were, but I do know 
that we could all ride out to the station in one 
old, black, cloth-covered, horse-drawn bus 
and on our arrival were all comfortably seated 
around one long table with F. E. Dawley 
presiding. Those were genuine conferences— 
not' to say debates—totally different affairs 
from a body of near 200 people gathered in an 
auditorium with a formal speech-making 
program. 
There is no use in evading or disguising the 
fact that in certain counties the Farm Bureaus 
are having hard going. In most cases their 
membership has fallen off remarkably from the 
high point of three or four years ago, and the 
movement as a whole has lost something of its 
early momentum. There are several reasons 
why this is so. For one thing it seems to be a 
sort of law of organizations that in their early 
days they frequently enjoy a popularity and 
enthusiastic support which later on to some 
degree dwindles and fades. Not having at 
first accomplished everything which was fond¬ 
ly hoped of it, men later come to ask if it can 
really accomplish anything. 
Then, too, the movement came into exist¬ 
ence at a most happy time and was floated 
joyously and easily on a tide of rosy hopes and 
rising agricultural prices and organization 
enthusiasm. The little matter of membership 
dues was hardly anjobstacle in those boom days, 
but now, once more, three dollars or five dollars 
seems quite a sum to contribute just as an ex¬ 
pression of good will toward a cause that, after 
all, with the best of intentions, is unable to 
definitely promise value received. Some or¬ 
ganizations may arise out of the ruins of grim 
disaster, but after all it is usually easier to 
start something when everybody is feeling 
prosperous. 
Then there is another factor. Unfortunately 
in some localities the Bureaus have built up 
a spirit of definite antagonism and opposition 
on the part of certain interests or individuals. 
In a few cases such opposition has had a dis¬ 
tinctly political background when some 
member of the Board of Supervisors has started 
out to “get” the Bureau for some imagined 
slight or because some supporter has de¬ 
manded it. When the poet wrote “Hell hath 
no fury like a woman scorned,” he evidently left 
the small town politician out of his calculation. 
Sometimes the opposition to the Bureau has 
been economic as when the local feed dealers 
or the merchants have felt, possibly justly, 
that the Bureau has been too active in co¬ 
operative buying efforts. Let us say something 
right here which may not be just popular or 
palatable with some good farm-bureau mem¬ 
bers. It is this: that just so long as the Bureau 
must depend largely upon Federal aid. State 
aid and appropriations of county money by the 
Board of Supervisors it will hardly do to be¬ 
come too active in enterprises which interfere 
with what the business men of the community 
consider as their vested rights. As now con- 
situted the Bureaus represent a public and not 
a strictly agricultural organization. Promising 
commercial aid and advantage is the easiest 
method of selling the Bureau idea in the 
beginning, but to-day I believe that the Bur- 
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