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Institute managers and lectures. I wish to thank you for the kind 

 support you have given me and the expressions of confidence in the 

 resolution just passed which is of more value to me than all the gold 

 and silver in the mines of the world. The confidence of my fellow- 

 men is of more value than all earthly treasures combined. 



Thanking you for the generosity, kindness and forbearance that 

 you have extended to me in the many years of the past, and speaking 

 for you a safe journey home, I will say no more at this time. 



The CHAIRMAN: I always look with pleasure to these State meet- 

 ings and the pleasure has always been with me to have a warm shake 

 of the hand of the chairmen and of the lecturers. It is always sad 

 that in our meetings when it comes to the parting of the ways, and 

 when the final hand-shake is taken that we must separate perhaps 

 not all of us ever to meet again. I feel that I have learned, and I 

 am satisfied that you have all learned something here, and I would 

 say, let us carry that home with us and let us spread it out among 

 our people. Sometimes you know people get a swelled head, and 

 that is a disease that is incurable. There is no doctor who can give 

 you medicine for a swelled head. I do not believe there are any 

 swelled heads among the farmers' institute managers or among any 

 of the lecturers, but I want to say, let us follow our leader; we have 

 one here who I believe has his whole heart and soul with the agri- 

 cultural people, and my hope is that he may be spared yet many years 

 to carry on this work and to bring new ideas before our agricultural 

 people, and I say, let us follow him. 



On motion, the Institute adjourned. 



A. L. MARTIN, 



Deputy Secretary and Director of Institutes. 



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