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organization interested. 1 try to get all elements interested, teachers 

 ;m<l all. I like the educational idea. I think there should be a large 

 section devoted to that and a person qualified to give instruction 

 along that line. Then there is the question of domestic science, and 

 all these questions that enter into home life; how to build a house 

 and how to properlj drain that house and heat it and light it. 



But the great foundation of the work should be fertility. If we 

 can raise good crops on our farms, improve their condition through 

 the instruction received from these lecturers, then we have some- 

 thing tangible and practical to show for our work and something 

 that will enable us to educate our children. I regard that as the 

 great foundation for institute work, the proper preparation of the 

 soil, and what it needs to bring better crops. Dairying should be one 

 of your leading topics wherever the location is interested in that line. 

 Then there is horticulture; that should be a leading topic. It should 

 be studied, and the Director of Institutes should employ a suitable 

 person to give instruction based on practical experience along this 

 line. 



I have had almost all the lecturers in this room in our county, 

 and our people are alive on the subject. If you don't have a great 

 crowd, if you get the farmers together, those who are really inter- 

 ested, if you have fifty farmers, or even half that number from the 

 surrounding country you will do more good that afternoon than you 

 will do with a large audience, if you get the proper instruction to 

 these people. I do not believe in the one-day institute. It only 

 gets people to them and they are done. With the one-day institute 

 you have got your speakers on the road half the time and in the 

 winter they get no rest. I hope that the time will come when we 

 will have no more one-day institutes, but have regular two-day in- 

 stitutes, if not longer. 



The CHAIRMAN: I think it is the duty of every county chairman 

 to inform Mr. Martin what he wants in his section. A dairy sec- 

 tion of course wants instruction along the line of dairying; a fruit 

 section along the line of fruit growing, and so on. Now if the re- 

 spective county chairmen will advise Mr. Martin what is wanted 

 by the people in their several sections, he will no doubt be able to 

 supply them with lecturers who will furnish them with the instruc- 

 tion and the facts they need. 



MR. RODGERS, Juniata County: Mr. Chairman, I did not expect 

 to say anything; but it is said, the first duty of a soldier is to obey 

 orders, and if we are ordered to come forward here, we should not 

 hesitate to obey. 



As you are all well aware, the county chairman in our county is 

 elected by the Agricultural Society of the county, and I suppose they 

 choose as nearly the right man as they know how. There is no 



