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and experimental farms, cannot the great agricultural State of Michigan afford 

 to be liberal to our college, and sustain one farm for experimental purposes?" 



Towiiifliip School Supei-iiitendenl. 



Through some oversight I was elected superintendent of schools for the 

 township of Lansing. Besides examining teachers and visiting schools, I have 

 twice met with superintendents of the several townships of the county at meet- 

 ings held in Mason. We arranged for two teachers' institutes to be held at 

 Okemos and at Leslie in November. 



Granges and Farmers' Clubs. 



1 have served in Capitol Grange, No. 540, as lecturer, where the attendance 

 has doubled and the interest has much increased during the past year. The 

 meetings are held weekly, and the members number over two hundred. I 

 have given several short lectures in this grange, but my chief work has been to 

 induce others to write, read, and speak. 



In January I was elected Master of Ligham County Pomona Grange. I 

 have lectured or taken an active part in meetings held at Mason twice. Holt, 

 Fitchburg, Alaiedon, Dansville, AVilliamston, Perry Centre. At Mason, we 

 held a Farmers' Institute for two days, and at Dansville a harvest festival, 

 both of which were well attended, 



I took an active part at the meeting of the State Grage held in December. 



Farmers' Instiluies. 



I lectured at institutes held in Charlotte, Climax, Flint, Mason, Hudson, 

 and Hillsdale. 



State Pomological Society. 



I attended the meeting held at the State Fair and did what I could, as a 

 member of two committees on fruits. At the annual meeting held in Paw 

 Paw I read a paper on "Kules for Judging Apples," and another, which was 

 my ''Report of the committee on single plates of apples shown at the State 

 Fair of 1879. 



A7isweri7ig Questions. 



Large numbers of inquiries have been answered in person or by letter. 

 These questions chiefly pertain to remedies for injurious insects, names 

 of grasses, weeds, bee-plants, fruits, and the like, and they come from 

 citizens of our State and other states, and from publishers of various agri- 

 cultural journals. 



