88 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan., 



the same line, and others interested in other special lines do 

 the same. A man may be interested in more than one line, 

 and if so, he finds plenty here to talk with and gains much 

 useful knowledge thereby. 



Now, I do not doubt but \Vhat the usefulness of this 

 Board would be vastly strengthened if it could arrange for 

 haying meetings in each county in this State in the course of 

 the year. Because more time is devoted to lectures than to 

 discussion, to my mind is no sign of any loss of value in 

 the meetings of this Board, and I wish that that value might 

 be extended so that more could take advantage of it. I have 

 long thought that if an arrangement might be made whereby 

 this Board could hold day meetings in different sections of 

 the State, where the farmers could easily attend, it would 

 vastly increase its usefulness. The truth of the matter is, 

 there are not many farmers, even if they have the means, who 

 can come and spend the time to attend a three days' meeting 

 of the Board at once place. It imparts its great usefulness 

 to those who can come, but the vast majority of the farmers 

 cannot come, and it is the duty of the State to take this means 

 of education to the farmers, and not the duty of the farmers 

 to come to this source of knowledge. There is a point which 

 I think is well worth consideration, and if our legislators, or 

 the management of the Board, could arrange a program, a 

 one day program, in the different counties of this State, at 

 some central point, and advertise it in the way which has been 

 suggested by Brother Hale, so that our farmers could attend, 

 it seems to me that better returns will be made in that way 

 than any other. 



A Member. I want to take exception to the idea of Mr. 

 Hale, that the county fair has outlived its usefulness. If he 

 will come down to Guilford some time, I think he will see 

 enough that will cause him to change his mind. If he should 

 come down there to speak on some day when the stock is on 



