No. 6. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 481 



MK. Efc?CHBAClI : Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: After listeninj,' 

 to such able papers as we have had during this "Kouud-Up," 1 feyl 

 as-if my little talk would be out of place; yet as this session is set 

 apart for increasing the interest iti our local institutes I feel as 

 though it were in place to express my opinion of (hem. 



As for myself and my county, I feel thai two Slate speakers would 

 be suflficient, provided I was furnished the money to secure other 

 help myself. I would be responsible for the dispensing of the other 

 portion of the money. For this reason, succeeding as I do, men 

 who have had the most successful institutes in the State, in the 

 county of Northumberland, I feel that that interest should not be 

 lacking in my county as long as I can prevent it. And I have been 

 doing part of this work out of my own funds, as it were, taking what 

 was left after I paid all expenses. 



In my county this is to be considered; that we have diversified 

 industries. At one end of the county are the coal regions and the 

 farmers surrounding them are interested in market gardening. I 

 M'ould use the funds I speak of in securing somebody who was es- 

 pecially adapted and a successful market gardener for that end of 

 the county. The other end of the county, in which I reside, is a 

 general farming district in which we raise horses, cattle, hogs, 

 sheep, poultry and have other industries. 



Now, I can in my county or some of the adjoining counties, find 

 men who will be glad to attend our institutes if I could say to them, 

 I will pay your car fare, your horse hire, your dinner, for which you 

 give me a talk on your particular line of work. The money, as I 

 say, I would divide. The objection was offered by some member 

 here to-day, in speaking upon this matter. What if one of the 

 State speakers should fail to appear? I would divide that money 

 among three or four of these local men, and still have enough men. 

 It is no trouble to find men, but you cannot ask a good man to leave 

 his business and come ten or twelve miles and not be recompensed 

 in some way for it. 



The CHAIRMAN: Now this question is open to you for discus- 

 sion, 



MR, MATTHEW RODGERS, of Juniata county: Mr, Chairman, I 

 am the gentleman who spoke to the last speaker in regard to the 

 probability of one speaker not being there, and sometimes we have 

 missed two of them in our county, I think there should be plenty, 

 and all under the care of the Department of Agriculture or the man- 

 agement of the Director of Farmers' Institutes, and let him furnish 

 these speakers. We have enterprising men through our county 

 and the adjoining counties who often come to our Institutes, and 

 other men from Perry county — Perry county lies near to it — and 

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