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;i silo. He bad the mortgage all paid off, and had money in the bank. 

 This was all brought about by his attending the farmers' institute 

 that rainy day. The benefits derived from farmers' institutes are 

 seen in every locality. The farmer of to-day is living in the most 

 progressive age the world has ever known, and if he is not better 

 prepared to meet the requirements of his business than his fathers 

 were it is simply his own fault. The opportunities for receiving 

 agricultural instruction, as provided for by the farmers' institute, 

 is comparatively at his own door. The progressive farmer is gath- 

 ering up this useful information and applying it to his own farm, 

 and to his own home. 



The CHAIRMAN: Our next topic and the last on our program 

 for this afternoon is, "Advertisement of Institutes." This topic will 

 be taken up by Mr. George A. Woodside, of Warren county. 



The address of Mr. Woodside is as follows: 



ADVERTISEMENT OF INSTITUTES. 



BT Mh. George a. Woodside, Sugargreve, Pa. 



Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: I realize that I am prob- 

 ably the youngest chairman here to address you, and I feel wholly 

 incompetent to do it, especially as the two preceding speakers have 

 stolen a good deal of my thunder. 



In the advertising of institutes — I would have changed the subject 

 a little — I would have said "My way of advertising institutes," for 

 it is my way of which I shall speak. I will speak of the June meet- 

 ing of the Board of Institute Managers. About two weeks before 

 that meeting I got twenty-five postal cards, took them to the print- 

 ing office and had this printed upon them: "Farmers' Institute of 

 Warren County. Farmers' institute managers will meet in the 

 grand jury room at Warren, Pa., on Tuesday, June 14, at 1 o'clock 

 P. M., for the purpose of selecting places of holding the two farmers' 

 institutes during the coming winter. Any party or grange wishing 

 an institute in his locality, should be present and come with a 

 statement of what his locality will be willing to do towards making 

 the institute a success." 



Now, we have nineteen granges in our county, and we do our insti- 



