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FARMERS' DAY AT BAY VIEW. 



By invitation of Mr. John M. Hall, superintendent of the Bay View 

 Assembly, we co-operated with him in a Farmers' Day at Bay View. 

 This meeting was held August 18. Institute societies in adjoining coun- 

 ties advertised the Institute, and although the day proved to be very 

 rainy, there was an attendance of probably 75 or 100 farmers, besides a 

 goodly attendance of Bav View summer residents. 



The Program was as follows: 



"Practical Education,"' Pres. J. L. Snyder, Agricultural College. 



"Home Life on the Farm," Mrs. Mary A. Mayo, Battle Creek. 



"The Farmer's Isolation; Its Import and its Remedies," Hon. John M. Stahl, 

 Illinois. 



The farmers present expressed themselves as thoroughly pleased with 



the meeting, and we believe also that those not farmers were impressed 



with the importance of the farming problem, and were brought into 



sympathy with the work being done by and for farmers. 



THE STATE BOUND-UP. 



The State Bound-up was held at the Michigan Agricultural College, 

 February 22-25. It will be remembered that our first State Bound-up 

 was held in Grand Bapids, and that the attendance from outside Kent 

 county was quite large. The second Bound-up was held at St. Louis, 

 Gratiot county, and while the total attendance at the meeting was very 

 large it was almost exclusively made up of people living in Gratiot 

 county. We were led by our experience to feel that the State Bound-up 

 should be just what the term implies, not simply an enormous county 

 meeting, good as such a meeting is. We therefore proposed to the Agri- 

 cultural College authorities that they entertain the Bound-up this year. 

 They promised to do so, and performed their part at the sacrifice of much 

 lime and considerable inonev. 



Every effort was bent upon making the Bound-up a State affair. The 

 program was arranged with reference to what were thought to be the 

 great needs of the day in Michigan farming. Everything was subordi- 

 nated to the value and appropriateness of the program for the special 

 needs of the time. In advertising every effort was made to secure a large 

 attendance from outside the immediate vicinity of the College, and to 

 secure delegates from all the County Institute Societies and the various 

 Granges and Farmers' Clubs of the State. 



The results of the Bound-up were beyond our anticipations, with the 

 exception that we were disappointed somewhat in the attendance of 

 farmers living within driving distance of the College. Forty seven coun- 

 ties were represented, with a total attendance of 212 and quite a number 

 were in attendance who did not register. This attendance does not in- 

 clude the attendance from Lansing, the College, nor of those who live 

 within driving distance of the College. That our figures are approx- 

 imately correct is shown by the fact that the railroad authorities re- 

 ceived 210 railroad certificates for approval. 



We believe that our Bound-up was, in all respects, a success, and we 



