ROCHESTER INSTITUTE. 3 



Etening Session, 7 o'clock 

 TVIusic. 



Paper — Hon. Wm. Ball, Hamburg. 

 Essay: Practical Culture — Mrs. T. B, Fox. 



Lecture: Nitrogen, the Fertilizing Element — Prof. R. C. Kedzie, Agricultural College. 

 Music. 



Friday, February 5, 10 a. m. 



Prayer — Rev. Wm. G. Roberts. 



Paper: Our Common Schools— J. Van Hoosen, Rochester. 



Paper: The Wilds of Michigan — George H. Cannon, Washington. 



Music. 



Afternoon Session, 



Pap)er: Oleomargarine and Butterine— What Shall Farmers Do About It? — Charles 



Adams. 



Essay — Mrs. J. C. Wilson. 



Lecture — Dr. E. A. A. Grange, Agricultural College. 



Music. 



Evening Session. 

 Music. 



Prayer— Rev. W. H. Mills. 



Paper — Evolution in Farming, J. H. Peabody. 



Closing Address — President Edwin WilUts, Agricultural College. 



Music. 



Discussions following each paper and lecture. 



Local committee — M. P. Newberry, J. M. Norton, H. J. Taylor, Mrs. L. Woodvrard, 



Mrs. J. J. Snook. 



This Institute was held in the Pahner rink, a building so large that even the 

 600 persons in the audience seemed almost lost in the space around tliem. 



The exercises were opened, after an introduction by President Van Hoosen, 

 with some very good music and au address of welcome by Hon. John M. 

 Norton who, in the course of his remarks, expressed the purpose of the gather- 

 ing most happily in these words: 



The object of this meeting is to mutually blend our experiences and aid each 

 other in finding out the secrets of success and profit in farming. 



I believe in the two days before us, we shall glean information which, when 

 practically applied, will add to our profit and store in farming. Let discussion 

 be free and untrammeled by timidity, literary or social distinction. A word 

 from a practical, uncultured farmer, may lead the thought of the more cultured 

 minds to the treatment and solution of some essential facts in nature, on 

 which hangs success or failure in any given lines of production. 



We welcome you all, and solicit your attention and interest to all subjects 

 which may be considered by the institute. 



The program was carried out substantially as printed, and the institute was 

 pronounced a grand success. Much praise is due to the local press for the 

 completeness of their reports, the Utica Sentinel, the Pontiac Gazette and the 

 New Era, each having admirable and very full reports. 



The various discussions will be found following the papers which called them 

 out, except one consisting mainly of questions addressed to Dr. Kedzie, which 

 will be found after his paper on Nitrogen. 



