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3. That the Farmers' Institute Conference desires to express the 

 gratitude of the farmers of Indiana to the Legislature for increasing the 

 appropriation of our money for Farmers' Institute worli, and for the 

 erection of a building at Purdue University for the teaching and instruc- 

 tion in agricultm-e and domestic sciences; and it is our further desire 

 that we, through the Legislature, appropriate sufl3cient funds to equip 

 and man the new buildings, to the end that these sciences be taught in 

 the best and highest possible way. 



4. That it is the sense of this Conference that a part of the worli of 

 the coming Institute should be presented for the purpose of causing the 

 parents to take such an interest in the education of their children that 

 their Influence may be felt in the selecting of the studies and amount of 

 work done, to the end that a place may be found for Nature Study and 

 the simpler elements of agriculture. 



5. That tt is the desire of the Conference that the elementary prin- 

 ciples of agriculture be introduced and taught in the high schools of 

 the townships of Indiana, to the end that our boys and girls will desire 

 to pursue a college course in agriculture and fit themselves for farmers 

 and makers of homes. 



6. That the thanks of this Conference be extended to Professor Latta, 

 and all others who have contributed to its success, and to the pleasure 

 and benefit of those attending. 



COUNTIES REPRESENTED AND DELEGATES AT CONFERENCE. 



The counties represented and the registered delegates attending the 

 Conference are as follows. Quite a number who attended from the 

 vicinity of Lafayette did not register as delegates: 



Adams County— C. D. Kunkle, Chairman, Monmouth. 



Allen County — Alexander Johnson. Chairman, Fort Wayne. 



Bartholomew County— Frank Tyner, Chairman. Elizabethtown. 



Benton County — J. E.' Stump, Secretary, Boswell. 



Blackford County— A. S. Wetsell, Chairman. Dunkirk; Mrs. F. V. 

 Erwin, Hartford City. 



Boone County— P. K. Hessong, Chairman, Zionsville. 



Brown County— John F. Bond, Chairman, Nashville. 



Carroll County— Geo. W. Shanklin, Chairman, Cutler; T. Fonts, Cam- 

 den, 



Cass County— John P. Martin, t'liairnian; H. E. Martin, both of 

 Logansport. 



Clark County— Joe AV. Williams, Chairman, Henryville. 



Clay County— Silas Foulke. Chairman, Cory. 



Clinton County— D. F. Maish. Chairman, Frankfort; W. W. Peter and 

 M. S. Gunkle, of Mulberry; I. D. Reed, Moran. 



Crawford County— J. F. Zimmerman, Chairman, Wickliffe. 



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