624 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Thursday, 1:30 p. m. C. C. Dawson, Grand View, presidinr 



Speaker's Session. 

 Music. 



1:45. Miscellaneous Business, Report of Committee on Resolutions, Quali- 

 fications of Spealiers and Methods of Instruction— 

 2:00. The Local Speaker— 10 minutes. U. M. Stewart, Madison. 

 2:20. The Assigned Speaker— 10 minutes. George W. Dorrell, East 



Enterprise. 

 2:40. Most Effective Instruction— Isaiah Imler, Rochester. 

 3:00. Means of Illustration— 10 minutes. L. A. Stockwell, Cloverdale. 

 3:20. Advice to Speakers— 10 minutes. Superintendent Farmers' In- 

 stitutes. 

 Questions and Suggestions. 

 Adjournment. 



The program was rendered as given above with the exception of the 

 following substitutions, made necessary by the inability of certain parties 

 to attend: Mr. L. E. Deal, of Lagi-ange, took the place of Mr. W. C. 

 Goldsmith; Mr. E. W. Hill, of Winchester, took the place assigned to 

 Mr. L. B. Clore; Mr. P. H. McHenry, of Plainville, Mr. E. B. Davis, 

 of Cartersburg, substituted for Mr. E. A. Metzger, and Mr. J. B. Elliott. 

 New Harmony, took the part assigned to Mr. U. M. Stewart. 



The conference surpassed any of the previous meetings in the interest 

 manifested and in the intelligent discussion of the questions before the 

 conference. The conference manifested a keen appreciation of the edu- 

 cational character of the Institute work and an earnest desire to promote 

 agricultural' education among farmers of the State. The spirit and trend 

 of the conference were admirably reflected in the following resolutions, 

 which were unanimously adopted, as presented by the committee consist- 

 ing of P. H. McHenry, Plainville; N. W. Powell, Etna Green; B. F. Biliter, 

 Huntington; Mrs. R. A. Hume, Plymouth, and Mrs. C. N. Lindley, Salem. 

 The following is the full text of the 



RESOLUTIONS. 



Whereas, the American home is the hope of civilization, and believ- 

 ing in its betterment; therefore, be it 



Resolved, 1.- That we recommend the strengthening of the Woman's 

 Session of our Farmers' Institutes. 



2. That the Farmers' Institute Conference of Indiana notes with 

 pleasure and gratification the growing tendency to a union and co-opera- 

 tion of the several agricultural institutions and organizations of the 

 State, and views with interest the future good to the State agricultural 

 industry that could be derived from a close union of these institutions. 



