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I should say here, lest I forget, that counties desiring the movable 

 school (this is for the County Chairmen) when tliey make their report 

 requesting and naming the places where the regular inslitute is to be 

 held, should in that same circular, make the request for a school at 

 the same time, and naming the place, I can assure you in just so far 

 as the means at our disposal are available the counties asking for 

 these schools will get them, ])roviding the conditi(ms under which they 

 are attained are observed. One of the conditions is that we would not 

 send a movable school anywhere in Pennsylvania unless twenty men 

 01' women sign a [)aper agreeing to attend all the sessions of that 

 school. Now I believe that is right. We are not searching for soiiie 

 place where 5,000 or 0,000 people will attend. That is very encourag- 

 ing indeed. Tn fact there are many of these schools where the attend- 

 ance has been so great that we had to cast aside the question of class 

 observation entirely and develoj) in more general manner the work. 

 But a class of 20 in any given locality in Pennsylvania, young men or 

 old men and women, who will come there with a full determination 

 to arrive at a proper conclusion on the matters of the development of 

 the interest in which they are engaged, are a sufficient number to 

 guarantee a school, and we believe if we can get 20 men and women 

 in a locality so earnest that they will come for three or four days in 

 the week to take in and absorb the lessons developed there, the object 

 lessons standing out in that community practically are to have better 

 agriculture. 



Now, my friends, T believe the program said that I would open this 

 discussion. I think I have occupied my full time. 



DR. CONARD: Do you have the attendance at the schools? 



DEPUTY SECRETARY MARTIN: T forgot that. May I read it 

 now. At these movable schools last year there was an attendance of 

 16.198. 



Now let us sum up a little and see just what our attendance was. 

 Total attendance. Special Institutes, Movable Schools, Regular Insti- 

 tutes, Harvest Home -\fee1ings, 200, 383 people attending last year. 

 The days of Regular Institutes scheduled in our Bulletin were 395 

 days; the days of S])ecial Institutes, 24; days of ^lovable Schools, 58. 

 We had |18,000 to expend on lecturers and hall rent at Regular and 

 Special Institutes, of which we held 477 days. You know it costs 

 something for these things. We have looked over the records of many 

 of the states, and I challenge any state to show us a record that will 

 excel ours, when all things are considered, for economy of M'ork. These 

 institutes include hall rent, everything connected with the work in 

 the different localities, includinc: the expenses and per diem pay of all 

 instructors, and everything is .f.T5.00 per day all considered. Many of 

 the states are not higher than ^."10.00 and when we come to consider 

 the character of the instructors and the character of the instruction, 

 havp reason to feel pi-oud of the record of 1910-11. 



In addition to this we hold annually our Normal Institute, the same 

 meeting as we have it here. IMeetings of this character cost us a little 

 less than $3,000 all told. There are other expenses connected with this 

 Avork. such as local postage and work of that kind, about |500. So 

 that for the .|22,500 that we have had to expend this last j^ear we have 

 accomplished such splendid results. 



