No. 6. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 635 



teachers. This is a move that .you are making in the right direction, 

 and I am glad that mv old home State is starting in this work of 

 educating her lecturers. 



The CHAIRMAN: Was theie a btilletin published of the list of 

 institute workers? 



PROFESSOR HAMILTON: Yes, sir; such a bulletin was published 

 and sent to all the PJxperiment Stations and to all the institute 

 directors of the State. 



MR, NORTHUP: I desire to make a statement in reference to 

 myself in respect to what has been done by the efforts put forth 

 by Secretary Hamilton in connection with those bulletins. I appre- 

 ciate very highly those bulletins and pamphlets which have been 

 sent to me, and 1 can say that they have helped me wonderfully. 

 1 don't know what I would have done as chairman of the institutes 

 without having the benefit of them. I have used a great deal 

 of oil in the perusal of these papers. I appreciate the work of 

 Secretary Hamilton and I am glad that he was engaged in the 

 State Board of Agriculture and that he is connected with this 

 work to-day. I am sent out sometimes to talk to the institutes, 

 and I dislike to talk nonsense. I have had my own experience on 

 the farm, and when I come to examine these bulletins and pamph- 

 lets I know 1 am right and know it by experience and it braces a 

 man up wonderfully, and he is able to do the work better not only 

 for his country but for his God. 



UR. ARMSBY: I simply arise to confirm what the gentlemen 

 before me say with reference to the school of instruction. % I think 

 there has been no more important step taken than the one proposed 

 for improving the coudMion of the farmers in this State; and 

 I want to say to Secretary Martin that we shall consider it not 

 only our pleasure but our duty as servants of the State to serve 

 the institute workers in this way, and I very sincerely hope that 

 the State Board of Agriculture will pass this resolution that is 

 befor(^ them, leaving the details to be worked out by the Deputy 

 Secretary of Agriculture. 



MR. McHENRY: I am heartily in favor of this resolution now, but 

 I think we are making a mistake in fixing the time. There are so 

 many things to be done in October. It is the busiest time we have 

 in our country, from the first of September until the last of October. 

 I can't see why, after a thorough examination, tliis time cannot be 

 left to the Deputy Secretary. Another thought that strikes me. I 

 am not certain but that the information which the Deputy Secre- 

 tary intends to give us ought to be a little earlier than that. I 



