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Fourth. That the State Superintendent of Institutes be requested to 

 secure the services of speakers trained in home economics, and to give 

 financial assistance to summer meetings of Home Maker's Clubs. 



VIRGINIA C. MEREDITH, Chairman. 



REPORT OP THE COMMITTEE ON RURAL SCHOOLS AND THE 



YOUNG PEOPLE. 



It is the sense of this committee tliat a better sentiment and a higher 

 appreciation of farm life and farm business must be created before the 

 Farmers' Institute and farm life and work will become more attractive 

 and more profitable, and that these conditions can only be secured by the 

 farmers taking more pride in their vocation and by. word and act showing 

 a higher appreciation of their calling. 



And that we have no cause for complaint on account of the abandon- 

 ment of the farm by the joung men and women of the land who seek 

 other professions, the allurements of which we have magnified by the 

 disparagement of our own. 



We recommend that, wherever practicable, joint sessions of Teachers' 

 Associations and Institutes and of Farmers' Institutes be held, and, the 

 giving of one-half day sessions of tlie Farmers' Institutes over to the 

 pupils of the district, or locality, in Avhich the Institute is held, for such 

 work as the teachers and county superintendents may deem best. 



ORLANDO A. SOMERS, Chairman. 



PAPERS OF LOCAL SPEAKERS. 



For a number of j'ears the State Board of Agriculture has kindly 

 permitted the publication of papers of local Institute workers in connec- 

 tion with the report of the State Superintendent of Institutes. Following 

 this report will be found a number of such papers, which are printed 

 without appreciable change or abridgment. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 



The undersigned desires to again express his appreciation of the sub- 

 stantial service rendered by the railway companies of the State in grant- 

 ing special rates to the Institute speakers. 



He is, also, grateful to the general and local press of the State for 

 many courtesies extended to the general management, and for the publi- 

 cation of numerous and valuable reports of the Institute meetings. 



He further takes pleasure in expressing his appreciation of the cordial 

 and effective co-operation of Institute speakers and officers generally, and 



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