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The CllAlKMAN: We are now Llii-ough with the pioj^i-aia lor 

 the evening. Is there any other business? 



PROF. HAMILTON: Mr. Chairman, I would like to nialce an an 

 uouneenient. There is a matter that I want to bring to tlie atten- 

 tion of the Board and tlie Institute workers, too, that I think is im- 

 portant. There is a meeting to be held in the city of Toronto, Can- 

 ada, on the 23d, 24th, 25th and 26th of this month, which every man 

 who can go should attend. It is the meeting of the American 

 Association of Farmers' Institute Workers. It is going to be the 

 greatest meeting of its kind ever held in this country. Our Cana- 

 dian friends are doing a wonderful work up in their region on these 

 lines on which we have been talking here. It is proposed to take 

 the visitors all through the Agricultural College and Experimental 

 Station and show what Canada is doing in this line of work. Canada 

 has taken from us our foreign butter export trade. Canada is one 

 of our great competitors in agriculture to-day. We are accustomed 

 to think of that country as one inferior in agricultural respects 

 by reason of the long, cold winters, and yet with all of that, Canada 

 is forging ahead in this agricultural world, and now these Institute 

 workers of the United States are going up there. The last meet- 

 ing was held in the City of Washington, and it is believed that this 

 one is going to surpass that, so I am sure those who can go will be 

 well repaid for their visit, and you will have an opportunity to talk 

 with men from all over the United States who are leaders in this 

 great practice in this great country. I advise you all to arrange to 

 go up to Canada, particularly the members of the State Board and 

 the lecturers here. Inasmuch as we are not going to take any of 

 this money we are accumulating along with us to the other side, I 

 think it would be to your interest and pleasure to go up and see 

 this country of which we know so little, and that borders right on 

 our own State of Pennsylvania. 



SECRETARY MARTIN: Before we close, I desire to call your at- 

 tention to our program for to-morrow at 9.00 o'clock. Professor 

 Franklin Menges of York, has arrived and is with us this evening 

 and to-morrow morning the first order on the program will be 

 the paper of Dr. Leonard Pearson. By request, Dr. Pearson pre- 

 sents his paper to-morrow' morning on account of a number of the 

 members of this Institute having to leave before his paper would 

 be reached on the program of to-morrow afternoon, and then Prof. 

 Menges will follow with his paper, w'hich was not presented on 

 Tuesday evening, the time set, on account of his absence. 



Any questions that may be ready wall be taken up upon the open 

 ing of the session to-morrow morning at 9.00 o'clock. 



Upon motion, the meeting adjourned at 10.10 P. M. 



