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can'1 you haul your people to the institute?" I said, "I will be over 

 at the hotel, and if you want any help, I will help you." We had a 

 lecture on domestic science on the program for that night, and we 

 telephoned to everybody in town and got teams and hauled them 

 there, and we had an audience of 110 there that night. 



I only mention this as one way that proved to be successful in 

 stirring up an interest in a place that had hitherto been indifferent. 

 That is one way. There are other ways that may be adopted, but 

 I have simply given this to you so that those of you who are studying 

 new ways, may perhaps get some ideas from it. 



I heard you say that you would like a two-day institute. So do I, 

 but you can meet more people with a one-day institute. It is a ques- 

 tion whether it will do as much good as a two-day meeting. I am 

 somewhat undecided on that although I have managed both. I 

 know this, it is very hard on the men; I don't believe in over-working 

 the men; you want them to do good work; want them to have all 

 their faculties and abilities in good vigorous condition; we don't 

 want them over-worked, and some cannot do their best if obliged 

 to work two days in succession. Our work on the whole for this 

 last season has been very satisfactory. In this corn specialty work 

 we are following some of those Western states. We took two men 

 and had them lecture from one end of a car, stopping at such sta- 

 tions along the line of the railroad as we thought we could get 

 audiences. The railroad assisted us in this, as a rule we took only 

 thirty minutes for these talks, but sometimes we allowed forty-five 

 minutes. That is, we would run in and out again in thirty minutes, 

 and the point in doing that work is, you want to make it a clear-cut 

 and concise presentation of the facts that you want to convey to the 

 farmer. You must put it in such shape as to give him just what 

 you want him to know. These trains were well patronized and 

 our state has asked for them all over the state. It has been quite 

 a hit in institute work, and for some purposes I think it is one of 

 the best plans for the carrying on of institute work that we have 

 met with. 



MR. HALL, Potter county: Mr. Chairman, the advertising matter 

 that the Department sends out, one part of it is in the form of large 

 posters, which would reach from the flag (referring to flag on the 

 wall) down to here. The first criticism I want to make of that, or 

 the first suggestion that I want to offer is this, that the size be cut 

 down one-half, because it is hard to tack it or to make it stand in 

 the wind. Now as you all know, the State is divided into so many 

 sections, and it is known who the State speakers will be. Now in- 

 stead of leaving blanks to be filled in, the suggestion that I want to 



