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MR. DIEHL, Bedford County: Mr. Chairman, Mr. Harvey has 

 about expressed by views on that subject; therefore I will not say 

 anything. 



MR. CHUBBUCK, Bradford County: Mr. Chairman, it is with a 

 great deal of embarrassment that I rise to say anything. I am wholly 

 unprepared, but 1 have jotted down a little bit here. I am very new 

 in this business, being only one year old in taking charge of Insti- 

 tutes and being from a county of such size that my chief trouble has 

 been to locate institutes throughout the county that were near enough 

 together so that I did not have to take gentlemen who are on a 

 strain through the whole winter, over too much territory. The 

 county which I represent has about 7,000 farms, and across it from 

 east to west and north to south is nearly thirty miles. My brother 

 here says it is more than thirty. It is a long distance, anyway, and 

 in order to satisfy people, it seems to be necessary to put at least two 

 institutes at each side of the county, dividing them into east and 

 west. As far as the attendance is concerned, we have found that 

 the attendance as a rule is only limited by the size of the room. I 

 think that the lecturers that were with us last year will agree that 

 that is so, no matter what the size of the room was, we always had 

 it filled. The attendance being so good, we have not had to look after 

 that. 



Now the people throughout the county, I think, are taking every 

 advantage of this institute work. I have had application after ap- 

 plication asking about these cultures from gentlemen who wanted 

 to know about inoculated soil; and I also know of a great many 

 Babcock testers that have been bought in my county since this sub- 

 ject was brought into importance. 



We have one special educational session and our county superin- 

 tendent gets around to all our institutes and attends to this one. 

 We make a point of having an educational session that is right up 

 to date. We have an educational county that is among the very first 

 in the State, and we are following up the consolidation of schools. 

 We have that brought up in our institutes and our people are taking 

 a great deal of interest in the subject. 



The CHAIRMAN: I have a few words that I would like to say to 

 the lecturers. I think it would help the county chairman out to 

 prepare a syllabus — if each lecturer would prepare a syllabus of 

 his lecture and send around before he goes into the institute to 

 present it, and I would also suggest that when men are sent out, 

 and for any reason, are not able to come, that they let us know in 

 time so that we may procure a substitute. We had a little trouble 

 with that this last winter. There were two men sent to our county — 

 it is a dairy county, and they were neither one present when the in- 



