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fourth ticket got the pig. The first year, although I advertised it, 

 while there was quite an increase in the attendance, I presume that 

 a great many of them came out of curiosity, to see whether I would 

 fulfill my promise. Whenever we say we will do anything in our 

 county, it has to be done, no matter what it costs it has to be done. 

 I intended to have all these prizes right there at the time. I had 

 the flour on the table in the sacks. I had the ham also lying there, 

 but the pig I was unable to get. In sending out my requests to come 

 to the meeting, I asked every one to tell me where I could get a pig, 

 but as we hold our meetings in January and February, it is rather 

 difficult to get shoats up there. One party sent me a little China 

 pig, so I had the china pig lying on the judge's desk, but as I couldn't 

 give them a pig, I gave them what I considered the equivalent of the 

 pig, a two-dollar bill. 



I gave these tickets to everybody, man, woman and child. I didn't 

 care who they were, because these things interest them or should in- 

 terest them all. I consider they are as largely for the child as they 

 are for the farmer or older person. I believe the child is more en- 

 titled to them, if anything. You can talk to these old heads and they 

 have got their set views and they will not listen to you, but the boys, 

 the younger persons who have not got set in their ways, they will 

 drink it in, and some day it will produce good results in the boys, and 

 that is another reason why farming, I believe, should be taught in our 

 public schools. Take these young people that are growing up, the 

 beginners even, and talk to them about bugs and flowers, etc., how 

 they grow. Teach them these things and they will keep on pro- 

 gressing. 



The next year we had some very good meetings and last year 1 

 had the largest of the three, and I want to tell you, this last year, in- 

 stead of having a few seats in front, the same as this audience is 

 now, we had every seat in the room filled, and we had to bring in 

 chairs and filled up the hall. 



MR. McCLELLAN, Clarion County: Mr. Chairman, I have not 

 very much to say in regard to this subject, in fact I am not very 

 much of a talker. We have a pretty good attendance in our insti- 

 tutes, and the people take a pretty good interest in them. The 

 worst thing is, to get a place to hold them. We generally have to 

 hold them in the churches, and we have some among us who are not 

 in favor of holding the institutes in the churches. Some who have a 

 little bit of religion in the back-bone instead of the heart, rather 

 object to it. I am not like my friend in Bradford in regard to loca- 

 ting my institutes. We have got between 34,000 and 35,000 in- 

 habitants in my county and I try to locate them iu such away as 

 to reach the greatest number of people interested in them. I try 

 to provide a way to get the State speakers transported from one 



