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l*ast exiierience i«i most of tlio couutk'S has showu that the two 

 days institute is miicli more economical and oflieient than the one* 

 day meetinij. In the one-day meeting the time is usually given to the 

 visiting lecturers to the exclusion of local aid, on the ground that the 

 people wish to hear the strangers, and as there is not time to hear aM, 

 the visitors are given the preference. This is a serious mistake. 

 The main object of the institute is the development of the local peo- 

 ple, and w'hatever interferes with this, ought to be corrected. A 

 two day institute gives ample time for all to be heard, and provides, 

 also for the deliberate and full discussion of matters of interest that 

 may arise. The morning session of the first day is almost always a 

 failure and ought to be dropped, and the institute begin at one P. M., 

 and continue for five sessions. This gives time for the visiting lec- 

 turers to reach the ground, and begin the work with the advantage 

 of a full house. 



The demand for institutes is such, that it has now become verv 

 diflficult to determine the localities which shall be favored. I wish 

 to reiterate what I have said in reporting upon this work in previous 

 years, that there should be appropriated for institutes at least 

 ^25,000 per year. The progress of the work has reached such a stage 

 that this larger sum can be expended to the great advantage of our 

 farming industry, and there will be returned to the State many-fold, 

 that which it invests, in the furtherance of this great school of agri- 

 nltural education. 



DAIRY AND FOOD DIVISION. 



The work of this Division is most important and extensive. The 

 protecting of the people against food adulteration, and food sub- 

 stances injurious to health is worthy of the best efforts of the State. 

 This work has been committed to the Department of Agriculture and 

 the Legislature has enacted laws and appropriated money to secure 

 this result. What has been done has been set forth in detail and 

 published in bulletins and distributed for the information of the pub- 

 lic. Before the publication of these bulletins, there was considera- 

 ble criticism of the Department for supposed inactivity in the en- 

 forcement of the pure food laws, but the facts, as disclosed by the 

 bulletins, effectually silenced all of these cdtics, by showing them the 

 amount of work that has been done in this direction. 



