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all this money and probably could have judiciously expended more 

 for the promotion of the institute work. 



Mr. Nelson stated that there was a f^reat variation in expenses; 

 that this year there were three institutes in the western part of his 

 county; that he made three or more trips and that the best he could 

 do as to expenses was at least |5.00 a trip and that he would not 

 have had any money left if he had allowed himself anj^thing at all; 

 said he made it a point to have his account cover the |50 and if 

 anything can be saved he makes a contribution of that to his county 

 agricultural society; says that it really goes into the institute work, 

 every dollar of it. 



MR. SEEDS: I want to say that as I have traveled through 

 life, there are two men I have always looked up to; one is the volun- 

 teer fireman and the other is a chairman of a farmers' institute. 

 Something has been said this afternoon about cold halls, etc. In 

 my experience, I have never found such a hall, but I have always 

 found them heated in time and comfortable. You talk about ad- 

 vertising your institutes, you talk about doing this and doing that 

 to make them better, but out our way they are crowded and you 

 have to turn people away. In some places in Pennsylvania, I 

 have known them to charge fifteen cents at the evening session 

 and still keep the house crowded. The county chairman has 

 done everything that he can do as far as I can see, and I look at him 

 as I look at the volunteer fireman. At Tyrone there was a fire, and 

 those volunteer firemen fought that fire and stopped it within a 

 wall's breadth of my house. One more word I want to say. I do 

 not know when I have attended a meeting that has been so much 

 of an inspiration to me as this meeting has. I have gone along 

 through life and tried to study the problems of agriculture and I 

 am here to-day realizing that I have got started, realizing that I do 

 not know anything compared with what is to be known in the future. 

 I do not know when I have attended a meeting that has done me 

 as much good as this meeting has, and I want to thank Brother 

 Martin for keeping in line with New York and some of the other 

 states, for I tell vou we need it. 



MR. KAHLER: I think a personal invitation is a good thing. 

 I very much approve of the card business; I think that is a very 

 good idea. 



MR. STOUT: I want to say that I have a little thing here that 

 will illustrate the idea of concentrating what is to be said on a 

 subject in the fewest words. I often think of the words of Burns: 



"O wad some power the gittie gie us 

 To see ourselves as Ithers see us." 



