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The first named member of each delegation will be the committee on behalf 

 of the Faculty, to co-operate with the local committee in working up the details 

 connected with the Institute, making out a programme, etc., except in the case 

 of Dowagiac, where lion. Milton J. Gard will act as such committee. 



If for any reason it should be necessary to change places on any of the above 

 assignments, such exchange may be made, provided it is done before the lists 

 are published. 



We recommend that the secretary attend all the above Institutes if he can do 

 so. 



We recommend that the Legislature be asked for an appropriation of three 

 hundred dollars for each of the years 1879 and 1880, to defray the expenses 

 connected with the Farmer's Institutes, for cuts or other illustrations of the 

 subjects presented, etc. 



All of which is respectfully submitted. 



J. WEBSTER CHILDS, ) 



MILTON J. GARD, V Committee. 



A. S. DYCKMAN, ) 



On motion of Mr. Wells, seconded by Mr. Philips, the above report was ac- 

 cepted and adopted. 



The Institutes were held as directed in the above report. Very few changes 

 Avere made in the delegations actually attending. Prof. Carpenter -was prevent- 

 ed from attending the Institute at Flint on account of sickness in his family. 

 In addition to the appointed delegation for Flint, however. Secretary Baird was 

 on the programme for a lecture. 



The delegation to Charlotte included, besides the appointed members. Prof. 

 C. L. Ingersoll. With these exceptions the delegations were precisely as above 

 provided for. 



The Institutes here reported constitute the fourth series that have been held 

 under the general direction of the State Board of Agriculture. They do not 

 differ in any marked degree from those previously reported, only as we become 

 more accustomed to holding them, the necessities of particular localities and 

 the "wants of the farming community generally are better understood, from 

 which cause, probably, full as much as any other, there is a perceptible growth 

 in etliciency and interest. 



That these meetings are duly appreciated by the farmers is manifest from the 

 large numbers of the very best class of farmers that attend them. Sometimes 

 they are attended by farmers from adjoining counties, who feel that they 

 would not lose the benefit to be derived from an Institute fur much more than 

 what it costs them, in time and money, to attend it. 



The Institute at Uowagiac was attended by a delegation from Van Buren 

 county in the vicinity of Paw Paw, comprising some of the best farmers in our 

 State, and whatever may have been the benefit these gentlemen received, they 

 certainly added much to the interest and profit of the meeting. AVe say to them, 

 come again, and to others, do likewise. 



Our Institute work was not as fully reported in the State papers this year as 

 last. The Detroit papers to some extent relied on their local correspondents, 

 although Mr. J. P. Thompson attended several of these meetings as reporter 

 for the Detroit Post & Tribune, and R. F. Johnstone, of the Michigan Farmer, 

 attended several; the Bay City Tribune and the Saginaw Courier published very 

 full proceedings of tlie Institute at Bay City. 



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