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to express an opinion, must come, I believe, from keeping in close 

 sympathy with the farmer and gradually educating him up to a 

 higher plane, not antagonizing him by too radical an attack on 

 his present system, which arouses his prejudices so that he will 

 not listen in a receptive frame of mind, and thus destroy any good 

 that otherwise might be accomplished. 



Following is a detailed report of meetings held and money 

 expended: 



Forty-five thousand leaflets on feeding fertilizers 



and spraying |118 57 



Express on annual reports sent to institutes 207 23 



Postage 70 00 



Stationery 57 34 



Total number of days on which meetings were held, 



381; average cost per day, $39.33 14,987 18 



$15,440 32 



