No. 7. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 341 



right here that in appointiug my committees I appoint good, large 

 committees. I don't believe in just two or three; 1 appoint from 

 eight to ten on my committees of the most representative farmers 

 and their wives in that locality. That, I think, is a good plan; the 

 other people see these names on there and they say, well, if they 

 are interested in that I guess it is all right, and I guess we will go. 

 I get not only fifty programs, but 1 calculate to get several hun- 

 dred programs printed. It don't cost a great deal more to get sev- 

 eral hundred than to get one or two hundred, even if you waste 

 a part of them, I would rather waste a lot than not to have enough. 



First, I get my committee to get a list of names, or get the chair- 

 man to go to the postmaster in the community where the grange 

 is going to be held and get the postoffice address of every farmer, 

 or go to the assessor and get the addresses in that way. When I 

 get my programs ready I mail lots of them; I believe it pays to 

 let them know what is going on. 1 get the programs ready a 

 month before hand, so that I can send a few to the Department and 

 a few to the speakers; then, later, I mail one to everybody 

 whose address I have been able to get anywhere near the place 

 where the meeting is to be held. I enclose, with the program, 

 an invitation card. I have had some printed that suit me a little 

 better than those furnished by the Department, although I use those 

 too as far as they will go. 



Now, when the large posters come, which the Department sends — 

 those large ones — I used to fill up the blank spaces by hand, but 

 last year I took them to our printer and got him to set the type so 

 that with one impression he could fill in the date and place, etc., on 

 the large programs, and paid him a dollar for doing it. It was a 

 good deal plainer, better and che.aper than I could do it by hand. 

 When I got these ready I posted them up, and then I sent one-half 

 to my local chairman at one place and the other half to the other 

 local chairman. 



When I first organized my committee, I explained to them that I 

 wanted them to be very careful in putting up these large posters, 

 to put them up so they would stay; instructed them to put them up 

 with lath or something on the top and bottom. The other day, as 

 I was coming home from one of the places, I saw a poster of a 

 farmers' institute, nice and white, clean and good, out on the south 

 side of a building, where it stood the weather for nine months in 

 our county. I wondered who had come into our county and was 

 running an institute there. As I got closer I saw that it was one 

 of ray advertisements of w.y own institutes that I had put up nine 

 months ago. It was put up, as I have said, with sticks on each 

 side and top and bottom, and it stayed there. That is the way to 

 put up these large posters. 



