4^0 STATK BOAllD OF AGKICULTUIIK 



the relatiou between the rural school and the College should be more 

 intimate, aud as a means to that end we believe that if the State Board 

 of Agriculture would furnish a limited number of framed photographic 

 views of the College buildings, grounds, stock, etc., and said views were 

 through our local committees on woman's work hung upon the bare walls 

 of our country school houses, it would not only adorn and beautify the 

 latter, but would be a direct and economical means of advertising for 

 the College and bring about more rapidly than any present method 

 adopted, a more intimate relation between school and College, be a means 

 of increasing the attendance of more farmer's boys aud girls at the Col- 

 lege, and an inspiration for a further beautifying of the country school 

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Resolved, That we heartily approve of the management of the State 

 Farmers' Institute; that while it is, perhaps, not perfect in detail, we 

 firmly believe that the field work will show where improvements and 

 •changes can be made; we have full confidence in the present superin- 

 tendent, Bro. Kenyon L. Butterfield, and believe that the system will 

 be improved as rapidly as circumstances will permit. That we do not 

 think it at all advisable to place it under any different board of control, 

 but for many reasons desire it to remain as at present, under the control 

 of the State Board of Agriculture. We also believe the State Farmers' 

 Institute is accomplishing great good to the vast majority of our farm- 

 ing districts, and that it is rapidly increasing its scope of usefulness. 

 That the best interests of the State demand its continuance, and a larger 

 rather than a smaller appropriation should be made by our next legis- 

 lature for its' maintenance and enlarged educational influence. 



