FARMERS' INSTITUTES. 629 



Prof. C. D. Smith, Professor of Agriculture and Director of Experiment Station* 

 Install fixtures and stall feeds. 

 2 — Home dairy or factory, which? 



3 — Development of the dairy cow (illustrated with stereopticon). 

 4 — The farmer's side of factory butter making. 

 5 — Keeping up soil fertility. 

 6 — The dairy herd— selection and care. 

 7 — Home butter making. 

 8— Milk production for the cheese factory. 



Dr. J. L. Snyder, President: 



1 — A trip to the Agricultural College. (Illustrated.) 

 2 — Industrial education. 



Prof. L. R. Taft, Professor of Horticulture: 

 1— Diseases of pome fruits. 

 2 — Strawberries. 

 3— Diseases of stone fruits. 

 4 — Raspberries and blackberries. 

 5 — Diseases of small fruits. 

 6 — Currants and gooseberries. 

 7— The treatment of plant diseases. 

 8 — Grapes. 



G. H. True. Instructor in Dairying: 



1 — The Babcock test and the eye in selecting dairy cows. 



2 — The relation of the Agricultural College to dairy prosperity. 



Dr. Geo. A. Waterman, Professor of Veterinary Science: 

 A few hints on preventing diseases of farm animals. 



Prof. C. F. Wheeler, Assistant Professor of Botany: 

 1— Weeds. 

 2 — Smuts of grains. 



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The following were employed especially for Institute work, and were 

 paid a per diem and expenses while on such work: 



Hon. Wm. Ball, Hamburg: 



1 — Selection and care of farm stock. 



2— Keeping up soil fertility. 



3 — Business sense in farming. 



4 — Clean farming: A talk on weeds. 



5 — Up-to-date stock feeding for the general farmer. 



6 — Bean growing. 



7 — Success in feeding stock. 



8 — Value of improved stock and how to improve it. 



9 — How I grow corn. 



J. H. Brown, Climax: 



1 — Soil manipulation in growing crops. 



2 — Self education in the farm home. 



3 — Farm sanitation and live stock sanitary laws. 



4 — The care of farm stock. 



5 — Profitable farm dairying. 



6 — Corn culture. 



C. B. Charles, Bangor: 

 1 — Underdrainng. 

 2 — Farm accounts. 

 3 — Improving and utilizing low lands. 



