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EVENING SESSION. 



Tlie following report of the cotiirnittee on resolutions was read by the secre- 

 tary and adopted : 



WiiEUEAS, The present system of taxation causes the heaviest burden to fall upon 

 the farming comnuniity, by taxino^ the real or nominal owner of real estate, making 

 no deduction on account of his indebtednes, no matter what proportion it bears to 

 the property he represents; therefore, 



Besolved, That it is the sentiment of this body that our legislators, during the 

 present session, should give us a law more truly equalizing the burden of taxation. 



liesolved, That the thanks of this meeting be tendered to the State Board of Agri- 

 ■culture for granting our request for a Farmer's Institute in this county. 



Also to the members of the college faculty, to Dr. Manly Miles, and all others who 

 have contributed lectures and essays to our great profit and interest at this institute. 



Also to the Fuguenoids for their excellent music; to the local committee; to the 

 president and other officers of the meeting; to the citizens of Flint for their gener- 

 ous and hearty entertainment of guests; to the members of the local press for the 

 interest they have manifested in this meeting, and to the school district board for 

 the use of this fine and capacious hall for the purposes of this institute. 



Besolved, That the interests of agriculture in our county would be advanced by the 

 organization of farmers' clubs in the different townships to hold stated meetings 

 during the fall and winter, and that these should unite annually to the holding of a 

 ■county institute. 



A. ROOT, 



H. R. DEWEY, 



G. TOWNSEND, 



Committee. 



Later in the evening Mr. D. P. Dewey offered the following, which was 

 adopted : 



Besolved, That the thanks of this institute are due and hereby tendered to Prof. 

 Parker of the institution for the education of the deaf and dumb and the blind for the 

 kind invitation given to the members of the institute to visit the institution under 

 Prof. Parker's charge. We regret that the limited time at our command has pre- 

 vented the acceptance of the invitation referred to. 



Prof. Geo. T. Fairchild gave his lecture entitled "'Science and the Arts in 

 Education." (See lectures given at more than one institute.) 



The exercises closed with a lecture by Dr. Manly Miles on "Horse Breeding 

 in its Relation to Farming," illustrated with the magic lantern. We are sorry 

 ■we cannot give even a synopsis of tliis masterly lecture, which made clear the 

 scientific principles on which alone improvement of stock can be predicated. 

 Among the illustrations of the lantern, was a series of instantaneous photo- 

 graphs of a fast horse in motion, trotting and running, taken by an automatic 

 electro-photographic apparatus, recording the action of the horse in motion, 

 and scientifically determining exactly what the motion is. The conventional 

 figure of the trotting or running horse is by those photographs shown to be 

 naught save a pictorial myth. In taking the series, the exposure for each 

 negative was about tlie two-thousandth part of a second. 



