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who has received most of the assignments was everywhere listened to 

 with the best of attention and his addrasses made at the farmers' in- 

 stitutes will undoubtedly have much weight in the campaign for better 

 roads. 



The cause of education has also been upon the program for most of 

 the county institutes and quite a number of the county commissioners 

 and members of the faculties of the normal schools have taken part. 



From the fact that speakers at the one-day institutes usually make 

 the tour of a county and because they are not able to leave their classes 

 for any length of time, very few of the faculty of the Michigan Agricul- 

 tural College and of the Experiment Station staff have attended the 

 one-day institutes but a considerable number have been upon the pro- 

 grams for the county institutes. 



ROUND-UP INSTITUTE. 



Owing to the action taken two years agp by the Board of Agriculture 

 Avhieh voted to hold the Round-up Institute each year at the Agricul- 

 tural College a change was made from the former plan of meeting there 

 upon alternate years only and a program was arranged for the hold- 

 ing of the Eound-up Institute at the Agricultural College on February 

 28. IMarch 1, 2 and 3. 



The live stock pavilion was used for the general session and several 

 of the adjacent rooms were given up to exhibits. The general plan 

 of the program was the same as used last year, particular attention 

 being given to topics relating to the soil and to the production of 

 farm crops. This course was adopted from the fact that live stock 

 topics had received attention at meetings held under auspices at about 

 the same time. The meeting of the State Dairymen's Association 

 occurred on the week previous while "Fanners' Weeks" at which 

 special attention was given to poultry and dairying were held at the 

 college respectively Just before and after the Round-up Institute. The 

 State Live Stock Breeders also had their annual meeting at the col- 

 lege in January. 



The program called for a continuation of the plan adopted last year 

 and Professor J. A. Jeffery, Professor F. S. Kedzie and Professor V. 

 M. Shoesmith took up the topics in the series assigned to them and 

 each gave four lectures, using about thirty minutes after which an 

 equal period was allowed for questions and discussion. The idea seemed 

 to meet with general approval. The program for three afternoon and 

 three evening sessions was of a more general nature. Among the topics 

 receiving particular attention being: Fruit Growing; Cora Culture; 

 Alfalfa Growing ; Dairying and Stock Feeding. At the evening sessions 

 House Heating; Gravel Roads; Play Grounds; Boys and Girls; Farm- 

 ers' Institute lecturers and the work of the Agricultural College were 

 among the subjects discussed. 



Aside from the institute lecturers and members of the college faculty 

 who took i)art in the program, were Willis 0. Wing, Mechanicsburg, 

 Ohio; Professor G. C. Humphrey, University of Wisconsin; Professor 

 Win. A. McKeever, Kansas Agricultural College; Professor John Hamil- 

 ton, Farmers' Institute Specialist, U? S. Department of Agriculture; 

 Professor S. T. Maynard, Northboro, Mass., and John I. Gibson, Man- 



