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become a moving power in the tlevelopment of a liigli degree of in- 

 telligence and more earnest ellorl in (lie application and practice of 

 real business methods in agriculture. The outgrowth of the Institutes 

 and Movable Schools of Agriculture is a demand, first, for an addi- 

 tional appropriation for the Schools and Institutes of not less than 

 110,000; and, further in order to enforce the woik, an api>r()priation 

 should be made for the employment of a limited number of practical 

 and scientific counsellors whose business it would be to visit farms 

 of the State and there advise and counsel with the farmers along 

 their respective lines of work, thereby explaining, in a personal 

 manner, many things that would vastly help in the upbuilding of 

 the great work throughout the State. 



With full assurance that when these requests are made to the com- 

 ing Legislature, this greatest of occupations will receive such recogni- 

 tion as their needs demand, I am. 



Very respectfully, 



A. L. MARTIN, 

 Director of Institutes. 



