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the}' come and help us. Sometimes we have to pay their boarding; 

 sometimes they have friends, and that is all that it costs. They are 

 good workers. 



I say, keep every.thing under the Department of Agriculture, or 

 State Board, and let them send us men and be responsible. The 

 Dejjartment would have to see that we did not get the same men 

 at each succeeding institute; and then again the Department would 

 be responsible and this would throw the blame off the chairman of 

 the institute work at home and if anything is wrong they would have 

 to growl at somebody away off. 



I think, IMr. Chairman, it would be far better for us to have this 

 matter entirely under the care of the Department and let them 

 furnish as many speakers as they have the means through the differ- 

 ent parts of the State. 



MR. CHARLES G. McCLAIN: I wish to endorse what Mr. Rod- 

 gers has said in reference to keejiing the speakers under the manage- 

 ment of the State Board; also that it would be folly for any Agricul- 

 tural Society to desire a less number of speakers than we have 

 been having. I know in our county we have never had too many. 

 Last winter we had four; before that we had three, and we did not 

 have any surplus to give away, I know. I think that three men is 

 few enough at any rate to send out, with the different branches of 

 industry. We have everything and we need general purpose men. 



MR. HEGE: I favor the State sending out three men as we have 

 been doing. We have in our county some very good local people, 

 and I have known of cases when they were on the program, and if 

 it happened to be bad weather, they did not show up and we would 

 be left. We should be left if we did not have the State speakers. 

 The local men know there is very little recompense in it for them. 

 T pay their dinners when I have local material, but if we depended 

 upon them and the weather was bad, we would be left in the hole. 



MR. A. T. HOLMAN. There is one thing I would like to mention 

 with regard to the number of men, and that is something about the 

 kind of men sent out. I think it would be proper and right for 

 the Department to know something about the districts around the 

 place in which the institute is to be held. T think the Director 

 should ask the County Chairman what kind of material he would 

 like to have there. If it is a dairying district, they should have 

 a practical dairyman, and if a fruit district, they should have a 

 practical fruit man. It is not only perplexing to the County Chair- 

 man, but to the audience if the speaker should be a dairyman and 

 would have to sjjcak in a fruit district. He is out of place and he 

 will go away dissatisfied, as well as the people and the chairman, 

 not because there is any question on account of his ability, but be- 

 cause he has been misplaced. 



