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Afternoon Session, 3 P. M. 

 Music. 



" Education of the Agricultural Classes," A. Sherwood. 

 Farm Drainage. 



"Farm Department Experiments at Agricultural College," Prof. Samuel Johnson. 

 Question Box. 



Evening Session, 7 P. M. 

 Music. 



Horticulture. 



" The Horse's Foot in Health and Disease," Prof. E. A. A. Grange. 



Question Box. 



Music. 



Committee of Program.— W. K. Sawyer, E. K. Warren, E. G. IngersoU. 



Hon. William Chamberlain extended a cordial welcome in the following 

 address : 



Ladies and Gentlemen. — The very pleasant duty of welcoming the 

 Farmers' State Institute to Three Oaks has been assigned me by the com- 

 mittee in the absence of my brother, who was expected to make this address. 



It gives me great pleasure to have the honor of welcoming you, Mr. Presi- 

 dent, and your associates of the Statfe Agricultural College to this village, 

 and in behalf of its citizens I extend to you and all of the gentlemen aud 

 ladies who have come to aid us in this meeting a cordial and hearty welcome 

 to our village and to the hospitalities of our homes, and beg to assure you we 

 shall do all in our power to make your stay with us both pleasant and agree- 

 able, and we have promised ourselves to be greatly benefited by your pres- 

 ence with us. 



The farmers of Michigan to-day need to adopt the very best methods of 

 agriculture possible, and use all the means in their power to make their 

 vocation a success. The State Agricultural College invites our sons to seek 

 the knowledge it is able to impart through its able corps of professors who 

 have made the science of agriculture their study, and are thus able to furnish 

 our young men a field of useful knowledge in this science that would take 

 years of experiment aud a large sum of money to obtain elsewhere. 



The State Board of x\griculture are doing a good work in holding these 

 institutes in different parts of the State, and by the discussion of the various 

 topics presented furnish food for thought and make suggestions that aid us 

 in adopting more advanced methods of agriculture and horticulture. 



Our people will be interested in this meeting and have looked forward to 

 it in view of the valuable information they would obtain. 



It may interest you to know something of this village and its surroundings. 

 Its name was suggested by three large oaks that stood side by side near the 

 center of the village — the only ones of the kind for some distance around. 

 They have, however, passed away, like most of the giants of the forest of that 

 day. 



This township was organized in 1855 from part of the township of New 

 Buffalo, and for many years this region was known as the Gahen woods. 

 Horace Greeley, in passing through here at an early day, said that the men who 

 lived in these woods and made farms out of these lauds were as deserving of 

 a pension as were the survivors of the Revolutionary war. Some of us would 

 he glad to see Horace's suggestion become a law in this day of almost uni- 



