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The DEPUTY SECRETARY: No, it cannot. 



MR. MILLER, Somerset County: Mr. Chairman, I have listened 

 to the orders of our worthy institute manager that we should keep 

 the lecturers in good condition as soon as we have them in our 

 hands. It is an important matter. I know that in our county of 

 Somerset we can't always do it. We had an institute in one part 

 of the county, in a little town where we had a hotel which we ex- 

 pected to be warmed up and they promised to have it warmed up, 

 but I am sorry to say it was cold weather and it had not been warmed 

 up to any extent, such as we would have liked. They were not pre- 

 pared to do it; they did not have the heating apparatus in, that 

 they should have had although it was not as I say, much of a place, 

 just a small place in the country where it was not up to date. 



Now it is a hard task always for the county chairman to have 

 everything just right. The appropriations given to him is not suflS- 

 cient to carry on the work as he should. He does not get enough. 

 Twelve dollars and a half a day will do for the day but to prepare 

 for the institute nnd to do all this advertising which is proper and 

 right, it is not enough money, and the appropriation ought to be 

 larger. We spend a great many days that we have nothing for, 

 not a penny, and the chairman gets discouraged when he has to 

 spend so much time just for the benefit of the farmers in his county. 

 The farmers don't appreciate it. They say, "That fellow is in it and 

 he makes lots of money out of this business." You will hear that 

 in every county. I thought myself when Senator Critchfield was 

 chairman that he made something out of it. 



The DEPUTY SECRETARY: You learned a lesson. 



MR. MILLER: Yes, learned better. I don't complain about that; 

 I am willing to spend weeks in winter when I haven't much to do 

 in this work, but really I don't want that cast into my teeth that 

 I am making money out of that. I don't like that. 



A great deal depends upon the county chairman, and if he can get 

 to help him men to stand by him and make out a program, his work 

 will be much easier. We have different committees appointed to 

 come and help us make this program, but they generally throw the 

 burden on the chairman. 



The DEPUTY SECRETARY: Don't you think that if you had an 

 organization such as this constitution provides for, you could do 

 better. 



MR. MILLER: I believe that is a good thing. I believe there 

 ought to be more agricultural organizations, so it would come home 

 to every farmer in the county, as near to his home as possible, and 

 have these local institutes and county institutes all through the 

 winter and get the people aroused all over the county and have fifty 

 institutes instead of two or three or four or six — have fifty different 

 places if possible to hold these institutes, and I shall do my best to 

 establish this organization in Somerset countv. 



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MR. HEGE, Franklin County: Mr. Chairman, we have a county 

 organization in our county, and some eight or ten years ago we 

 did have some trouble at first to get the people together. For fifty 



