No. 7. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 847 



The story I have in mind is of a section foreman who used to 

 send in very long reports to the superintendent of his division when- 

 ever an accident would happen on the road and the train get off the 

 track. The superintendent finally got tired of thesq long-winded 

 reports and instructed the foreman that when he had a report to 

 make in the future, he should "boil it down." So not long after, 

 when a train got off the track, the foreman reported as follows: 

 "Off again; on again. Finnegan." I think this well illustrates the 

 idea of concentration, and that it is something very much needed in 

 our institute work. 



MR. McCLELLAN: In our county, which is a pretty large county, 

 we have a long ways to go from one institute to another. The dis- 

 tances vary from fourteen to twenty-three miles between the two 

 institutes, which makes our county a very expensive county to hold 

 institutes in. I make it a point to try and get the ministers in- 

 terested as much as possible. I find if they take part, the rest 

 of the people will take part. I am not a granger, and I do not recog- 

 nize any organization at all in the business; I recognize the farmers 

 and the farmers' general welfare and that is the way that I try to 

 reach the people. Sometimes it costs us only |2.50, but generally 

 we pay |5 for the building in which we meet. 



The CHAIRMAN: Does your local committee ever run. you up to 

 |.35 on an institute? 



MR. McCLELLAN: I do not allow the local committees to run 

 me up on anything. I pay for the house and pay for the transporta- 

 tion of the speakers. 



A Member from Lancaster County: In our county we have a 

 good deal harder work to get out a satisfactory attendance than in 

 some of the other counties. I have a great deal of faith in the local 

 farmers' clubs and in getting the young people enlisted, getting 

 them out in the evening, if not in the day; then you get the older 

 persons to bring their neighbors along and get these persons enlisted 

 and interested in the work; tell them what is to be done. The man- 

 ager of the institute should try to bring up those topics in which the 

 people are most interested, for instance, we have a great tobacco 

 growing county, so in our county it will interest the people if the 

 speakers speak on tobacco. 



MR. McGOWAN: I feel that Berks should have a word in this 

 and I will concede what I might say to my friend, Dr. Fuuk. 



DR. FUNK: Mr. Chairman, I don't know as I have much to say 

 CD this subject. I UDderstood that this was to be for the county 



