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QUESTION: "Is the application of iron an advantage to a bearing 

 orcbard?" 



Answer: Yes. 



QUESTION: "Will not crimson clover take the place of barnyard 

 manure?" 



Answer: Yes, indeed. 



QUESTION: Can it be determined from the annual growth when 

 fertilizing is advisable? 



Answer: Yes, by observing if it is reasonably strong and of a 

 healthy color. 



On motion, adjourned. 



Bellefonte, Pa., Wednesday 7.30 P. M., October 12, 1904. 



W. H. H. Riddle, Butler, Pa., Chairman. 



The session was called to order at the designated hour by the Chair- 

 man. 



The CHAIRMAN: We are now ready to begin the exercises of the 

 evening, and I see by the program that we are to be treated with 

 music, a duet by Mrs. H. A. Surface aud (Mrs. J. P. Pillsbury. 



Mrs. Surface responded to an encore, and the music was very much 

 appreciated. 



The CHAIRMAN: I understand we have with us to-night the Edi- 

 tor of the American Agricxdturist^ a very pre-eminent and useful 

 agricultural paper, who will discuss "The Art of Instruction as a 

 Science." This is a subject in which w^e are all very deeply inter- 

 ested at this time, and I am glad that we have with us a gentleman 

 so well qualified to speak on this topic. I now have the pleasure of 

 introducing to you Prof. W. G. Johnson. 



THE ART OF INSTRUCTION. 



By Prof. W. G. Johnson, Managing Editor, American Agriculturist, New Tork City. 



Mr. Chairman, Ladies rnd Gentlemen: I hardly know whether it 

 would be proper for me to take up the subject that has really been 

 assigned to me to-night. Talking with Brother Martin coming down 

 on the train, I thought it would be highly proper for me to lay aside 

 the subject of "Instruction as a Science" and take up the subject 

 some other w^ay. I am still of that opinion. I told him I had never 

 delivered an address by reading it. But this subject is 

 BO very important in its general character and there are so many 



