7G STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



ORDER OF BUSINESS. 



The order of busiuess will be determined by each Institute for itself. The follow- 

 ing pi-ogramme is suggested if no better one is found: The Institute to begin with 

 an evening meeting, with a lecture upon some previously announced subject, to bo fol- 

 lowed by a discussion on the subject of the lecture, or on some previously selected 

 topic. The morning and afternoon will be given up to essays, lectures, and discussions 

 on selected subjects, giving especial ijrominence to the relation of experience of farm- 

 ers upon the subject under discussion. The Institute to close with an evening meet- 

 ing with an essay or lecture, and discussion. The meeting will ))e so short that every 

 farmer and his wife can afford to attend the whole meeting. 



. OBJECTS. 



1. It is not tlic design to secure mere rhetorical efforts, but to meet and talk over, 

 in a common-sense way, matters of vital interest to the farmer. 



2. One object to be secured is to bring the farmers, the Board, and the Faculty of 

 the Agricultural College in closer relations to each other, in hope of mutual benefit, 

 that the teacher maj' have the benefit of the broad and extensive experience of the 

 farmer, and that the farmer n\ay pei'haps derive hints from the teacher, to be put in 

 practice on the farm. 



3. One very important object to 1>e secured is to gather up and preserve in perma- 

 nent form tlie results of agricultural experience and the views of leading farmers in 

 difierent parts of the State. For this purpose a short-hand reporter will attend the 

 Institute to make a complete report of all addresses, essaj's, and discussions, to be 

 printed in the annual report of the State Board of Agriculture. 



4. Finally, to give a broader scope to the instruction at the Agricultural College, 

 and to make it more fully than ever l>efore the exponent of the most progressive and 

 iidvanced agriculture of our State. 



Farmers of Miclugan! AVill you '-meet the Board half-way,'' in this eff'ort for 

 mutual benefit ? 



E. C. KEDZIE. 

 Agricultural College, Sept. 13, 187"). 



Both tlic Stiitc Board of Agriculture aud the College Faculty wore genorallj 

 of the opinion that tliey should not nuxko arrangements for more than six 

 Institutes during the winter, and when, at tlie Novend^er meeting of the State 

 I5oard, it v.as found that Hon. J. "Webster Childs, Chairnnin of the Committoc 

 on Fanners' Institutes, had received between thirty and forty applications for 

 Institutes to be held at as manj^ different places, it was likely to be a difficult 

 matter to decide where they should be held. It was, however, agreed that the 

 least objectionable way to settle the matter would l)e according to priority of 

 application, holding tlie Institutes at the places where they had lirst applied for 

 them, having in view a proper geographical distribution in the State, giving two 

 Institutes to the eastern, two to the western, and two to the soutliern part of the 

 State, provided that two could be held nearly on the same line of travel, there- 

 by lessening the amount of traveling expenses. In accordance with this plan, 

 lion. J. Webster Childs, Chairman of Committee, reported the following 

 arrangement for holding the Institutes, which was unanimously adopted: 



At Armada, Macomb county, Jan. 11 aud 12, to be attended bv the following mem- 

 bers of the college faculty: Pres. T. C. Abbot, Profs. W. J. Bealand A. B. Gulley, and 

 Mr. C. 1j. Ingersoll, foreman of the farm. 



At Rochester, Oakland count}', January 13 and 14, attended by the same represent- 

 atives of the college as that at Armada." 



At Allegan, Jan." 11 and 12, attended by Profs. Geo. T. Fairchild, R. C. Kedzie. A. J. 

 Cook, and Mr. R. C. C^arpenter. 



At Decatur, Van Buren county, Jan. 13 and 14, attended by the same representatives 

 of the college as are assigned to Allegan. 



At Adriaji (time not fixed), attended by Profs. Geo. T. Fairchild, R. C. Kedzie, 



A. J. Cook, and Mr. Garfield. 



At Coldwater (time not fixed), attended by Pres. T. C. Abbot, Profs. "VV. J. Beal, A. 



B. Gulley, and the Secretary, R. G. Baird. 



