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sentially necessary under existing conditions, and I know you will 

 not regard me as censorious when 1 say thai there is not a county 

 chairman of institutes to-day who has fulfilled his duty as he ought 

 to, if he has not had prepared at least six weeks before an institute 

 is to come off in his locality, a complete program for that meeting, 

 and had it printed, and that program ought to be printed in num- 

 bers — large numbers, and distributed throughout the country as a 

 means of giving information to the farmers of that county as to 

 who of the State speakers will be present, the topics they will dis- 

 cuss, coupled with an invitation to be present. 



I believe that in every county except two or three, this has been 

 done. I know that one or two counties failed to print programs, and 

 I call attention to that. We suggest that the program for each in- 

 stitute, say there are to be held eight institutes in a county, four 

 two-day institutes, where the practice has been to have the pro- 

 gram for one printed on a separate sheet of paper. The next one 

 is printed on another sheet of paper and so on; the expense in 

 that way is almost trebled. I advise the county chairmen of insti- 

 tutes to go to some printer in their county and have the programs 

 for all the institutes of that county printed together on one sheet; 

 go to that printer and find out what he will print a certain num- 

 ber, one thousand or two thousand for, and have them all printed 

 on one sheet. That becomes an advertisement not only for one in- 

 stitute but for all the institutes in the county, and in that way 

 you will get them all printed so as to cover all the institutes to be 

 held in the county nearly as cheaply as you will the programs for 

 one institute. I throw out that suggestion to you now. I think 

 it would be good practice. I want to suggest further, make that a 

 business proposition everytime. I do not mean by that that you 

 should go to the printer and try to ^'jew" him down, not that, but 

 make it strictly a business proposition. 



Now my friends, I want to commend these county chairmen for 

 a good many things, but time will not permit me to commend you 

 for all the things I would like to mention. 



There is one matter to which I wish to direct your attention. 

 These speakers who come from a distance, you know they are en- 

 gaged in a very arduous work. They are often obliged to travel by 

 day and by night; they endure great exposure, and the time has 

 passed, my friends, Avhen the impression that once prevailed to some 

 extent in Pennsjdvania that these fellows were traveling around 

 over the State having a good time at the State's expense, needs re- 

 futation. You know and I know that such is not the case, and no 

 county chairman of institutes has discharged his duty to the ful- 

 lest extent that has not arranged for a hotel or suitable stopping 

 place for these lecturers and procured a separate room for every one 

 of them. The State is willing to pay for that, such accommodations 

 ought to be provided, and provision ought to be made not only for 

 a separate room, but if the weather is cold and severe, that room 

 should be heated and made comfortable for these lecturers. Why 

 do I say all this? Simply because these men have to talk in rooms 

 where the ventilation is frequently not good, and they have to talk 

 there for an hour or two hours and they leave that room with their 

 physical condition somewhat depressed, and a good deal heated, and 

 then they go into a room in which no one has slept for probably 



