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but they wouldn't have anything to do with him. We want to leave 

 politics out of our institute work; it has no place there, and we should 

 not permit it to exist. 



MR. STEWART, Greene County: Mr. Chairman, I don't think 

 that I have ever risen to speak until to-day. I have never been called 

 upon, but I believe that when a chairman calls upon a private, 

 he should rise. I am a believer in doing whatsoever thy hand 

 findeth to do, and doing it with all your might. I possibly should 

 rise for another reason: Being a comparative stranger here, in 

 order that the men who may be sent to our county may have some 

 idea of what manner of man will meet them when they enter the 

 threshold of the county. The chairman is not able to do all things, 

 but he can do many things with the co-operation of his people. The 

 most important thing for him at first, is to enlist the co-operation 

 of prominent people, and all the people, and it is proper for me to 

 say that as far as I am concerned, as an humble chairman, that 1 

 shall endeavor to prepare the soil in Greene county to receive the 

 facts and suggestions that are brought to us by the lecturers. I 

 feel that it is a very wise provision of the State of Pennsylvania 

 that these facts and suggestions can be brought to the doors and 

 the firesides of the people of our county. I feel that I should be 

 very modest in making any suggestions, but I have one suggestion, 

 and that is that while heretofore in our county the first meetings 

 have been held in the afternoon, I desire to suggest that the first 

 meeting shall be held in the evening, because we will have a good 

 deal better attendance iu the evening session, and it will have a 

 beneficial influence upon every meeting held thereafter. 



The Chairman has suggested to us that we should state something 

 or suggest something concerning our needs. I have not thought 

 of that matter to any great extent, but I want to say that our needs 

 are general. We have a wide variety of needs in our county almost 

 all along the line of agricultural work, and consequently we need a 

 variety of treatment to meet these needs. I want to say, gentlemen, 

 that I want to render whatever service I possibly can in the work 

 in which we are engaged so that it will reflect credit upon the De- 

 partment as well as upon ourselves. 



MR. HUTCHISON, Huntingdon County: Mr. Chairman, I would 

 rather sit still and hear what the lecturers have to say to the insti- 

 tute managers. I would say first, to make an institute a success in 

 any county, you must have the people's confidence and have them 

 working together and have them helping to do the work. If any 

 chairman starts in to boss the job, it will not be long until the 

 people leave him. I get in touch with the Grange and try to hold my 

 institutes in that section and get as many members as I can of that 



