496 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Off. Doc. 



er'g Institutes, the Lecturers for the same, hereby express their 

 thanks and appreciation to the citizens of the borough and county 

 of Huntingdon for the generous welcome and kind reception and 

 treatment accorded them during their sojourn among this people. 



'"'' Besolved. That we tender our thanks to the Mayor of Huntingdon 

 for his cordial greeting to our body and for the freedom of the city. 

 "We thank the Countv Commissioners for the use of the court 

 house during this meeting. 



"We also tender our thanks to the ofBcials of the Huntingdon Re- 

 formatory for the pains and kindness taken in conveying our body 

 to the Reformatory. 



"We also thank the county press for their kindness in advertising 

 this meeting so extensively. 



"W> also thank W. F. Hill, Grand Master of the Grange, Hon. 

 John T. Cox, Vice President of the State Board of Agriculture of 

 New Jersey, and the Hon. John Hamilton, Farmers' Institute Spe- 

 cialist, for the instructive remarks made before our body. 



"Our thanks are specially due to George G. Hutchison for his un- 

 tiring efforts to make this institute the success it has proved to be. 

 (Signed) "J. M. HANTZ, 



"H. W. NORTHUP, 

 "A. J. KAHLER, 

 "JASON SEXTON, 

 "GEORGE E. HULL, 

 "Committee on Resolutions." 



T^pon motion, the report of the Committee on Resolutions was 

 unanimously adopted. 



SECRETARY MARTIN: Now, gentlemen, we have a few minutes 

 to spend yet. If any one has a v.ord to say the opportunity is given 

 before we adjourn. 



MR. CURE, of Lackawanna county, said that he thought the in- 

 stitute work and the different institute meetings this winter should 

 be properly advertised and that this work should be put in the 

 hands of a man experienced in advertising and that he should give 

 his whole time and be furnished the means to do this work thor- 

 oughly. 



He also advised that more work be done during the institute 

 meetings of the coming Avinter in getting the farmers, and par- 

 ticularly the younger element, to take up the correspondence courses 

 offered free by the Pennsylvania State College to all who would 

 simply make application for this instruction, and said he knew very 

 much good had been accomplished by this correspondence course, 

 and that much more good could be done by it if the matter was only 

 brought properly before the fnrminjf element. 



