Archives at Cornell

New York State Conference Board of Farm Organizations records

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 2840

Scope and content

Includes minutes of meetngs (1918-1963), correspondence, lists of officers and committee members, resolutions of member organizations, legislative recommendations, checkbook stubs, and proposed budgets with rationale (1957-1966) for the New York State College of Agriculture, New York State College of Home Economics, and the New York State Veterinary College, all at Cornell University.

Dates

1918-1968.

Creator

New York State Conference Board of Farm Organizations (Organization)

Biographical / Historical

The Board was established in May 1918 by four New York farm organizations for the purpose of adopting unified positions on "issues and problems of mutual interest." By the 1960s, the Board comprised eleven state-wide agricultural organizations.