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saps the vitality out of the fanners' institute lecturer to work six days 

 in the week and then travel on the seven (h, and I want to know why 

 we cannot use all the conniiandnienls just as well as a few of them. I 

 believe that six days belongs to us as farmers institute lecturers, but 

 I don't believe that we ought to work the sevenlh, and last night Dr. 

 Bailey in his talk here spoke about the religion of the men on the 

 farm, and I think we ought to take care of that on Sunday; and I am 

 going to say right here as I said before, that it is not doing justice to 

 the farmers' institute lecturer to require him to travel then. Tf you 

 are going to have that Saturday evening session have it at the place 

 where the institute lecturers can get in a hotel on Saturday night and 

 have what he ought to have, and that is good accommodations over 

 Sunday; and I am going to tell you this, that I have a lot of sympathy 

 for that farmers' institute lecturer that is running away from these 

 meetings on Saturday night in order to get to a good hotel on Sunday, 

 from the fact that I believe that it belongs to him. Sometimes, I am 

 going to say this; that as I look at the county, we commence at the 

 wrong end, and I have traveled as much as eighteen to twenty miles 

 after Saturday night's session to get to a place on Sunday, and I know 

 others have done it. Now I don't know the sentiment of the institute 

 lecturers but I know the sentiment of some of them. I don't know 

 the sentiment of the farmers' institute managers Avith reference to 

 this, but I know that of some of them, and I know that some of them 

 have been very careful along this line and have endeavored also to ar- 

 range these affairs so that following a Saturday night meeting we 

 were at a place where we could stop. Another story: You know a 

 man was sick and he was very sick and just suddenly he became a 

 little bit better. He did not know where he was. He Avoke up and 

 said to his wife: "Oh, I feel so good. Am I in heaven?" "Oh no; I 

 am with 3'ou yet; I am still with you;" she said. Well noAv, if we 

 cannot get to that heaven of a good hotel on Saturday night to remain 

 on Sunday, why please don't have the other end just as bad as it has 

 been made for us sometimes. 



Another thing I want to say: Last winter some of my mail went 

 wrong. The folks at home did not know where I was and I know- 

 some of them cared. I knew where they were and I could write to 

 them. We have that rural mail all over the country and it is a good 

 thing all right. But if they don't know where to write to because 

 sometimes the places of holding farmers' institutes have been changed 

 to what the bulletin says and these things want to be right. I tell 

 you it is a hard life to be hauled over the country under such condi- 

 tions and I don't want to do work under such conditions and more 

 than that, T am not going to A^ery long; and so far as that Saturday 

 night is concerned I am going to tell you here, county chairmen, I 

 want you to do your best and if you have done your best I am going 

 to do all T can possible for the institute work and there is no man 

 here dare say T eA^er shirked my duty along the line of institute work 

 or ran away from institute work Avhen I Avas needed, and I am work- 

 ing for the best interest of that farmers' institute Avork; but if you 

 are going to hold me out late on Saturday night, aAvay from civiliza- 

 tion and good hotels, you are going to be badly disappointed about 

 four or five o'clock if there is a" livery team anywhere near to get me 

 out, because I am going to get those hotel accommodations and look 



