12 FARMERS' INSTITUTES. 



Thursday, 2 p. m. , February 18, 1886. 

 Music. 



The value of the thoroughbred in improving our common stock — L. M. Marsh. 

 Recitation — IVIiss Grace Lytle. 



Capital and Labor — Relations of the Farmer to Both — Hon. C. V, R. Pond. 

 Music. 



Essay — Mrs. H. M. Traverse. 

 Four Important Insecticides — Prof. A, J. Cook. 

 Poetry of the Farm — Mrs. H. C. Bailey. 

 Music. 

 Adjourn for supper. 



Thursday, 7 p. m., February 18, 1886. 



Discussion on Insecticides. 



Essay— Mrs. H. W. Noble. 



Music. 



Robert Burns — Prof. E. J. MacEwan. 



Music — " Home Sweet Home." 



■^ The Town Hall had been very tastefully decorated with the national colors, 

 -■evergreeas, flowers, and a fine display of fruit in preparation for the Institute, 

 and its meetings were all crowded. 



President H. D. Pessell welcomed those in attendance in an address, from 

 which I quote: 

 Ladies and Gentlemen : 



Ideas, like electric sparks, are evolved by friction. We need to come in con- 

 tact with each other in order to be sharpened and polished. 



By meeting together in these Institutes we listen to the experiences of each 

 other, and to the voice of science as it recounts its triumphs from year to year. 



"Knowledge is power." When mind meets mind, and there is an interchange 

 of ideas, then will intelligence increase in a noticeable degree. There are a few 

 who will not step outside of the old beaten tracks of their predecessors, but 

 will still hold fast to the superstitious notion of "planting their beans in the 

 moon." This class of farmers will generally be found opposing all innovations 

 or progressive ideas, in whatever form they may be presented. He who dares 

 to go beyond the beaten track will march on to enterprise and improvement. 

 The men who do not meet and associate with their fellows are little else than 

 hermits. Let two farmers meet and converse upon the subject of husbandry, 

 exchanging views and experiences, who will deny but that something can be 

 learned, of great advantage to them both. How much more then can an Insti- 

 tute, composed of practical and scientific farmers, illustrate the ideas thus 

 briefly set forth. These Institutes are a recognition of the fact that success in 

 farming does not wholly depend upon unremitting labor, but like success in 

 • every pursuit in life, upon work guided by intelligence. The history of the 

 world, from its earliest ages down to the present time, shows that man has been 

 a student, slowly but steadily making advancement in a knowledge of the laws 

 which govern matter. In the great march of time and progress, has the 

 husbandman kept abreast with men of other vocations in social and 

 intellectual improvements ? This calling has not attained that commanding 

 position in the affairs of State and nation which its importance deserves. 

 But the opportunities for the farmers of to-day are far in advance of tliose 

 •of any former period. The press, farmers' clubs, and the Grange, with its 

 perfect organization and immense influence are bringing to the kiiowledge of 



