No. 6. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 4'J3 



base of (lie success or the failiii'c of an institute or of almost any 

 otlier meeting where the thoughts are to be exchanged and gathered. 

 NoAV, I believe that the best way to quiet a man who is taking the 

 time that he is not using profitably is for the presiding officer to 

 call time on him. In our county — I Icnow you will excuse me for 

 talking about that I know bes(— there was years ago a good sys- 

 tem of local farmer's institutes and they were talked to death by 

 certain men, and I think it is in the province of the chairman of 

 institute work for the county to either preside at every session of 

 the institute himself or delegate some man wlio has backbone 

 enough to know that the State has furnislied men who are able to 

 instruct the people to come there and if anybody uses time unprofit- 

 ably, to use his prerogative to stop it, and that is what the chairman 

 ought to be for. He will make enemies, but will save time and 

 money to the State, and tliat ought to be his reward. 



MR. McCEEARY: I think it is a good plan to have it published 

 in the program that the talk shall be for 15 or 20 minutes, or what- 

 ever time may be set, and then the chairman can call time on a 

 party of that kind. We had a ladies' session and one of these 

 fellows was on that program and we had a lady for chairman. Now, 

 I said, these speeches are limited to 20 minutes, and as soon as 

 he has gone 15 or 18 minutes you call him down. She said she 

 did not like to do it, and I said if she listened to him that long she 

 would be only too glad to do it, and she did it, and we got rid of 

 him. On the first lecturer there was no time limit, and he talked 

 for o^er an hour and didn't say much either. 



MR. HERR: I think it is the duty of the manager of the institute 

 to know who is on the program, and if he has a bore on he should 

 use him just as civilly and politely as he can, and inform him that 

 he will have 20 minutes on his topic, or whatever time he may think 

 proper, and when he has a man who is worth more than 20 minutes 

 he should allow him all the time he can. It is the business of the 

 manager to control the institute himself or elect somebody else 

 who can. It is his business to speak out and assert his authority 

 there, not haughtily, but as courteously as possible, and make it 

 emphatic and positive, and when you do that you are not going to be 

 troubled with bores. In my experience I had one or two and knew 

 them and got along with them very nicely, and did it in such a way 

 that it left them feeling good. 



MR. ORR: I believe that this prerogative of regulating the pro- 

 gram belongs to the leader of the section; otherwise it might place 

 the County Chairman in an embarrassing position. He may have 

 exerted a great deal of influence in getting the people to come 



