60 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan., 



The President. I am sure we are all very much obliged 

 to Mr. DePeu for reading this essay, and we are very much 

 obliged to Dr. Lindsley for sending it on here; it is, indeed, 

 a very valuable contribution to the subject. 



The Secretary. I think Dr. Lindsley deserves more than 

 the thanks of the chairman, I think he deserves the thanks of 

 this audience for having sent from his sick bed such a paper as 

 this for our entertainment. I move, therefore, that the thanks 

 of this audience be extended to Dr. Lindsley for the paper 

 which has been read. 



Motion seconded and unanimously passed. 



The President. There are a great many questions liable 

 to be asked, or that you will wish to ask, and I will ask any 

 who have questions if they will write them out and bring them 

 forward and put them in the question-b'ox. Just get those 

 questions ready and let them be brought up and put into the 

 box here, and somebody will answer them to your satisfaction, 

 or tell you they cannot, one of the two. 



You will see by looking on your programs that we are to 

 have a rural New Yorker speak to us. I am a kind of rural 

 New Yorker myself. I know they raise some mighty good 

 men over there, and I am very glad to introduce to you Mr. 

 H. W. Collingwood, editor of the " Rural New Yorker." I 

 am sure he will give us something which will be well worth 

 hearing on the subject of " Farmers' Institutes." 



Mr. Chairman and ladies and gentlemen: I do not pre- 

 tend to be familiar with the system of conducting farmers' 

 institutes in Connecticut. I am rather glad that I know noth- 

 ing about it, because I may say something that will hurt the 

 corns of some one, or say something that you will not agree 

 with, and when I sit down you will have at least the chance to 

 say that that man did not do that intentionally. I have studied 

 some of the methods of conducting farmers' institutes in 

 Massachusetts and other states, but I have purposely left Con- 



