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chairman more especially. We have in our county such an efficient 

 county chairman that I think our institute cannot help but be a 

 success, and 1 appeal to Secretary Martin to say if we do not have 

 a success in Boyertovi'n. 



MR. MARTIN: You certainly are all right there. 



DR. FUNK: I would wish to say one word in regard to our 

 method of advertising. We adopt this method: In addition to the 

 programs, we get out a large number of additional programs, in 

 addition to those assigned to the county chairmen of Pennsylvania. 

 Last winter we had 4,000 printed; got these printed a while ahead, 

 about a week before the time of the institute, and we have a large 

 local committee, with about eighteen or twenty or more on it, so 

 as to get a large number interested, over an area of twelve or four- 

 teen miles. We get them together and divide up in school districts, 

 and get each jone to name all the public schools that come within 

 his jurisdiction, and then we furnish all these schools with from 

 twenty-five to fifty programs to be distributed in those schools — 

 give them to the teachers, so that the teachers may give them 

 out to the children to take home. Now, they read just what the 

 whole performance is to be; they talk it over and know all about it. 

 We find that when the day comes they just pour into us so that we 

 can't accommodate them. We had to get the Lutheran church last 

 year. Had over 900 people there, as Mr. Martin will tell you; he 

 was there that evening. 



The CHAIRMAN: With your permission, we will call on Mr. 

 Hutchison to give a five minutes' talk on his work, if it is in order, 



MR. HUTCHISON: This is somewhat of a surprise to me; I 

 have kept quiet from the beginning of this institute and listened 

 just as quietly as I could, but made a little noise sometimes, but 

 have been very much interested in the work. I have been holding 

 county institutes, or helping to hold them, for some seventeen years, 

 and the trouble now is that we can't get houses large enough to 

 accommodate the people. Our houses are always full. 



The work that I am engaged in now for the Department of Agri- 

 culture is not a new work; it has been going on for some two years, 

 I believe. It is new to the people generally; it has not been brought 

 before the farmers of the State as it should be, I think, or they 

 have not had the information that they should have in regard to it. 

 The buHetins have been published and distributed, but it has not 

 been placed before the public in the newspapers and the people have 

 not been taking the interest in it that they will in the future. 



In reference to the feed law, any feed that is prepared from whole 



