Cornell University Farm and Home Week records

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 21-24-3104

Scope and content

Programs for a variety of events at Farmers' Week including general program, concerts, banquets, judging contests, livestock sales, debates, and dramatic contests and American Farm Bureau Federation events.

Also, Farm and Home Week pins for 1922 (MU-44), 1924, 1925, 1929, 1930, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1948, 1952-1954, and 1959 (18 items). "The Stalin Supporter," an anti-Communist political publication designed to look like the Farm and Home Week newsletter and distributed at Farm and Home Week in 1938. Decorative map of the world of blue and white percale made by Ruth Scott, n.d. Pennant with buttons from 1941 and 1942. 30th Anniversary button from 1937.

Dates

1914-1954.

Creator

New York State College of Agriculture (Organization)

Biographical / Historical

The first Farmers' Week at the New York State College of Agriculture was held in 1908. Originally held in the month of February, the program included lectures, demonstrations, competitions and contests, roundtable discussions, conferences, laboratory practice courses, entertainments, and conventions. With the creation of the New York State College of Home Economics, a Home Maker's Conference was added in 1926, and in 1928, the event was retitled Farm and Home Week. The event was part of the extension activities of the colleges.