•!44 ANNUAL. REPORT OF THE Off. Doc. 



Specialist for the United States, and other representatives of the Na 

 tioual Department of Agriculture, and tin- representatives of our 

 State College and Experiment Station, we desire lo express our ob- 

 ligatiwi. 



To the press, local as well as general, we acknowledge our indebted- 

 ness. 



Realizing the importance of centralized schools and township high 

 schools to our rural population, we would earnestly urge m-ore liberal 

 appropriations of State funds to extend the same, and we would urge 

 that the benefit of such appropriations be extended to such town- 

 ship high schools as are associated with boroughs of less than one 

 thousand population, provided, a course of agricultural instruction 

 is given in such schools. 



And, whereas, all this educational effort was originated and made 

 possible by the untiring zeal and energy of our Institute Director, A. 

 L. Martin, be it 



Resolved, That we acknowledge a debt of gratitude and extend a 

 vote of thanks to him. 



And further, we urge a more liberal financial support to the 

 farmers' institute work of our State. 



W. H. BROSIUS, 

 D. A. KNUPPENBURG, 

 ■ j i L. W. LIGHTY, 



Committee. 



ME. DRAKE: I would like to add that this body instruct Director 

 Martin to send our sympathy to the wife of Dr. I. A. Thayer who has 

 been one of our most faithful workers in the past. 



MR. CLARK: I move the adoption of the resolution. 



The motion being seconded, it was agreed to, and the resolutions 

 were declared adopted. 



MR. MARTIN, Director of Institutes: Friends we shall carry away 

 with us the remembrance of generous hospitality extended to us by 

 the good people of West Chester and Chester county, and these 

 scenes, we shall recall them in days and years to come. Our occu 

 patron differs from that of all others known to man, in that it started 

 at the beginning of the human race and has been carried on through 

 the ages down to the present day. It is the one occupation most es- 

 sential, upon which all others are dependent. To bring to our 

 minds the importance of the application of the highest order of de- 

 velopment and intelligence to the operations upon the farm, the 

 farmers' institutes have been inaugurated, the great schools upon 

 wheels, which travel up and down the valleys and over the moun- 

 tains of Pennsylvania to stimulate the farmer and equip him for this 

 great occupation of agriculture. 



