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tute work very largely through the grange. I sent one of those 

 cards to each one of our granges. 



We have always had more applications for institutes than we have 

 been able to supply. This year we had, I think, five or six applica- 

 tions from that many granges for that many institutes. Of course, 

 we could only grant two of those requests. Now, what has this 

 to do with advertising? It gets it before the whole county and 

 every grange in the county, and I have found it a good way to ad- 

 vertise through the grange; these cards are read in every grange 

 meeting and that advertises the institutes all over the county. 

 Previous to the organization of the present Department of Agri- 

 culture, we never had a farmers' institute outside of Warren. Very 

 few farmers ever attended those meetings; I know I never went 

 there. They were not advertised. Nobody knew of them, but since 

 the organization of the Department of Agriculture, and Mr. R. J. 

 Weld being the first party to take up the work, we have never held 

 a meeting in Warren, but they have always been held outside, in the 

 smaller towns; and out in the country there have been six or seven. 

 We get them out in that way all over the county. In the places 

 that get the institute the member or the person that comes down 

 there and asks for it gives me a report of their success or failure, as 

 the case may be. Whenever they are successful in getting one, 

 of course it is advertised in their grange. All summer they are 

 preparing for the work, talking about the institute for the coming 

 winter. 



About two months, according to the time fixed or the particular 

 instructions in the bulletin, the chairman is expected to visit the 

 place where the institute is to be held. In our county, we generally 

 appoint our local committees at the June meeting. 



It is left to me, as chairman, to make these appointments when 

 I visit these places where the meetings are to be held. I have 

 already visited the two places where we are to give institutes the 

 coming winter and appointed my local committees. I visit them at 

 their grange meetings and appoint these committei^s. There were 

 seventy-five members of the grange present, and it was advertised 

 to seventy-five people 'right there. After I have appointed my com- 

 mittees I explain to them what is expected of them, that they will 

 be expected to make all necessary arrangements for the preparation 

 of the hall or place of meeting and for meeting the speakers and 

 selecting the material for the program, that is the local papers, 

 recitations and discussions. They get this work done at least a 

 month before the meeting and send it to me, and I make up my pro- 

 grams myself. And right along that line I want to speak just 

 a minute and say that if a grange will serve meals, or any society 

 will serve meals, I advertise it in the program; and I want to say 



