30 BOARD OF AttRIUULTURE, 



Institute at Bangor. 



A second Institute was held at Bangor Cit}- Hall, in connection 

 with the Penobscot County Farmers' Club, November 21. A large 

 gathering of the farmers of the county, and their wives, were 

 present. The hospitalities of the club were extended to all present, 

 dinner and supper being served in bountiful supply. 



FORENOON. 



R. W. MuRcn of Hampden, President of the Club, called to 

 order and announced the order of exercises. 



RELATIONS OF FEEDING TO FERTILITY. 

 By Z. A. Gilbert, Secretary of the Board. 



Mr. President, and Ladies and Gentlemen : Allow me, before 

 proceeding with my part in the exercises this forenoon, to express 

 the pleasure 1 feel in being able to meet with an organization which 

 has attained the distinction which has for some time been accorded 

 to this Penobscot County Farmers' Club, a club, which, we who 

 have watched its work, are aware, is doing a deal of good work in 

 encouraging the agricultural interests of Penobscot couuty and oC 

 the State at large ; encouraging investigation into the methods and 

 practices out of whiih come the highest success : encouraging a 

 deeper interest in prosecuting this industry as a business ; encourag- 

 ing greater efforts toward making it a successful business, rather 

 than simply a means of dail}- income, out of which the daily ex- 

 penses are to be met, and elevating it to a standard compariiig 

 favorably with other business interests in the county. It is a pleasure 

 for us to meet with an organization of this kind. 



A meeting of this kind can be made, and should be made, in the 

 hands of such an organization as this, of more benefit, than it other- 

 wise could be. This Board of Agriculture only wishes that every 

 county in the State had as wide-awake, active, and ellicient an 

 organization as is here at work. We wish, and certainly we shall 

 expect there will be, years of usefulness for this club in the future. 



The work of the Farmers' Institute is familiar to you all. and it 

 needs no introduction here, you having held a joint meeting with us 

 once before, so no time need be spent in introducing our methods of 



