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CONCLUSION. 



The institutes have been, in a measure, handicapped the past 

 four years for want of funds sufficient to carry on the work in a 

 manner commensurate with the demands of the times or conditions 

 surrounding agriculture in the different counties of the State. With 

 the increased cost of travel, hotel rates, increased at least 30 per 

 cent, above that of previous years, we find it impossible to meet the 

 demands for more competent instructors and added number of 

 meetings, with the appropriation granted heretofore; hence we ear- 

 nestly voice the will of the more than a million of farmers' of Penn- 

 sylvania in asking that Fifty Thousand dollars be appropriated to 

 the Division of Farmers' Institutes for the coming two years. 



Very Resj)ectfullv, 



A. L. MARTIN. 

 Director of Institutes. 



