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" Stock Breeding," Ira H. Butterflekl. 



" Agricultural Experiments," Prof. W. J. Beal. 



" Mixed Farming," George Hinkson. 



EVENING SESSION. 



Music. 



" Prevention of the Eavages of tiie Wire Worm," Geo. Smith. 



*' Practical Physiology," Prof. A. J. Cook. 



Essay — James Anderson. 



Essay — Mrs. Dickinson. 



Music. 



WEDNESDAY MORNING SESSION. 



Music. 



Prayer by Elder Barber. 



" Drainage," Richard Newkirk. 



"How shall we keep our Boys ou the Farm," Prof. E. J. MacEwan. 



" Sheep Husbandry," Lucius Beach. 



" Potato Culture," Harry Harrington. 



Music. 



AFTERNOON SESSION. 



Music. 



'• Can Farmers Handle their own Productions with Profit?" Paschall Lamb, Wm. 

 Ellithorpe. 

 " Experiments with Insecticides," Prof. A. J. Cook. 

 Essay— M. F. Carleton. 

 Music. 



The invitation to hold the Institute came from Pomona grange No. 12, of 

 St. Clair county. Owing to the extreme cold the train was an hour and a half 

 late. It was nearly 3 o'clock before the chairman, Moses Locke, called the 

 people in the well filled hall to order. Excellent music was furnished by the 

 young people of the farmers' families. A dozen or more, in connection with 

 the organist, led by William Tool, interested and amused the audience. 

 George Mclntyre offered prayer ; David Quaile made a short address of wel- 

 come. 



There was an excellent attendance and a good degree of interest manifested 

 throughout the sessions of this Institute. The exercises were as given iu the 

 programme above. 



THE TEENT INSTITUTE. 



Trent Institute, Muskegon county, was held January 25 and 26. The 

 patrons and others brought with them well filled provision baskets, and having 

 a cook stove and commodious apartments directly below the audience room, 

 they enjoyed a good social time between each session. 



Trent is a little hamlet about four miles from Bailey's Station, on the 

 Chicago & West Michigan railroad about thirty-five miles north of Grand 

 Rapids. The building in which the sessions were held is a commodious hall 

 erected and owned by the Grange organization, — a two-story building. On 

 the lower floor is a large dining-room and kitchen, and on the upper floor two 

 ante-rooms and a fine audience-room large enough to seat three or four hun- 



