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MK. WILLIAMS, of Mercer county, said that local taleut could 

 uot be depended upon and that notwithstanding- they knew the 

 needs of their localities better than the State speakers possibly 

 could, and while they might know them very well and be able to in- 

 struct on the subjects undertaken, they were, like the prophet, with- 

 out honor or credit at home, and were not given the consideration 

 that the State speakers received. 



MR. WEIDNEK, of Adams county, said his county would be 

 pleased to have at least three men; that they did not have the 

 right kind of local help, as plenty as they had in some other dis- 

 tricts and that they all preferred to hear the experts sent out by 

 the State; that as they had diversified farming interests, fruit grow- 

 ing and dairying, they would be pleased to have specialists on each 

 of those lines. 



MR. BEARDSLEE, of Bradford county, said that there might 

 be a misapprehension about the extra days of institute held in 

 Lackawanna and Clearfield counties; that the Department only paid 

 for four days and that the expenses of the other days of institute 

 was paid by the local mauagement. 



He said the County Chairman should not assume the running of 

 the whole institute, but that if he had a dairying session he should 

 select some wide-awake dairyman of his locality to preside over 

 that session; if an educational session was to be held he should 

 select as chairman for that session a local man interested in edu- 

 cational matters. He had seen this experiment tried with very 

 excellent results, and that more interest was manifested in the 

 institute work thereby. 



MR. McCREARY, of Lawrence county, said they did not want less 

 than three men in their county. He wanted plenty of State help 

 and wanted it to be as good as it could be. He had tried the ex- 

 periment of having a new and suitable chairman at each session 

 and found it to be a good thing. He said it was a good way for 

 the County Chairman to get rid of monopolizing the whole thing; 

 that they had a ladies' session and allowed them to run it them- 

 selves. 



MR. HOOVER, of Lancaster county, said that while they had 

 plenty of good local talent, for different reasons they could not 

 get them to come forward and give their help, and they found that 

 they had to rely on State aid. He thought in selecting the State 

 speakers it should be ascertained what the people of each locality 

 are most interested in, and that men who are specialists along those 

 particular lines should be sent into the respective sections. In 



