No. 6. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 497 



MK. IIKKK, of Cliutou county, said that be knew it wnw a ditij- 

 cult task for the Director of Institutes to send the right men to the 

 right places in all parts of the State, where the agricultural in- 

 dustries are varied, and that it was their duty to help him in this 

 matter by suggesting to him the topics thej' wanted discussed, and 

 the men they wanted to discuss those topics. That he knew, with 

 this information at hand, the Director of Institutes would carry out 

 their wishes as far as he was able and that this would also show 

 who the institute workers were that were appreciated and did good 

 work. 



He also thought they should be experimenting and working out 

 some problem all the time so that when they went before the people 

 they could tell them something that they wanted to know from 

 actual experience. 



He also thought there was too much repetition in the work of 

 some of the lecturers; that they should endeavor to work out new 

 thoughts and present them in a new light. 



He also thought that some of the institute lecturers bored them 

 with long speeches a great deal more than their ordinary workers 

 have; that while their papers were pretty good, they were too long. 



PROF. HANTZ said that there was a limit to science; that man 

 could not go beyond that which he knew; and he thought they 

 should experiment themselves and see what was right of the things 

 advanced by scientific men and they would then know what it was 

 safe to teach to the people along agricultural lines. 



MR. CLARK, of Westmoreland county, said it was very surprising 

 how far ahead the farmers of to-day were getting in the acquisition 

 of knowledge, and that if there ever was a time when the institute 

 workers must be better informed and equipped to go before the 

 people and instruct them, that time was to-day. 



On motion, the meeting adjourned sme die at 4.30 P. M. 



A. L. MARTIN, 

 Secretarv. 



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