No. 6. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 483 



MR. MILLER: I think very much depends upon the ijhicc; but I 

 do not think that it is practical for the Manager of Institutes 1o 

 send tliese different lecturers to the different locations in which 

 their work would be most suitable; that is, have them prepared to 

 lecture on the different vocations that may predominate in certain 

 agricultural districts because they have a tier of counties that must 

 be visited by certain men, or the traveling expenses would run too 

 high. 



I belicA'e that some counties are well supplied with two speakers 

 while others are not. Where you have local material that is able 

 and willing to take hold, two speakers will do more good than three 

 or four; that is, for the amount of money spent, two speakers will 

 do more. Use the five dollar bills on local material and vou will 

 do more with two speakers than with three or four. I know some 

 counties where the local material is very willing and would like to 

 have some chance to speak. They would like to advance their 

 ideas of their practice. In such places two speakers would be 

 sufficient. 



MR. HALL, of Potter county, speaking for his county, favored not 

 less than three State speakers, because on account of the bad 

 weather they had there, they could not depend on local material 

 filling their part on the program. 



MR. CLARK, of Westmoreland countv: I understand this is a 

 family affair. I would like to ask a question that it seems to me 

 would almost dispense with this subject. Is it the intention of the 

 Department to furnish the chairman of the county with some money, 

 provided they reduce the number of speakers? Will the amount 

 of money be divided and will the chairman get more money provided 

 they refuse the number of speakers? You need not answer the 

 question unless it is suitable. 



SECRETARY MARTIN: There has been no understanding on 

 that point. It does not enter into the discussion, really. The ques- 

 tion for discussion is: "Should there be more than two speakers?" 



MR. CLARK: My reason for asking the question is this. That if 

 the chairman is not furnished with more funds, it would not be with- 

 in his province to get an additional number of speakers; but if he 

 was furnished with more funds then he would be able to furnish the 

 number of speakers additional as reduced by the Department. That 

 is the way I look at it and understand it in that light; otherwise T 

 do not see that it would make much difference as to who furnished 

 the speakers, so that the requisite number of speakers were fur- 

 nished, and in some of our large counties it is almost impossible to 

 get two men to go out through a county and take entire charge of 

 the district work. 



