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Department of An;ricultnre has undertaken to prepare and publish for distribution 

 courses of study upon cheese makin<r, l)utter making, pouUry rearing, and fruit grow- 

 ing, with lists ()f references to authorities, items of apparatus needed, and detailed 

 outlines of practical work. 



The intn)(lucti()n of .-^uch a set of courses in a State as supplemental to the present 

 iiifthod of institute work will round out the institute system, provide for its indefi- 

 nite extension, and furnish emitloyment to skilled teachers through the entire year. 



O. C. Grec;g, of Minnesota. In the first place, I like the thought. Again, I agree 

 with what my friend from Illinois said last night, that the institute as now organizeil 

 is a i^lace in which we excite interest and enthusiasm. I have come down to that 

 in my institute work in Minnesota, and I find that it is a successful thing. On the 

 other hand, I fully appreciate the fact that we can not make the institute a school, 

 in giving details. That is why we put $5,000 out of $18,000 into an Annual. Get 

 people thoroughly aroused and they will read the book. But the book is not a live 

 teacher. 



You can not hold a large crowd on one topic. We have a man talk a short time 

 on each subject. We are going to make in every county a central point where we 

 can have these things, and if my vote counts for anything, ^Minnesota is going to 

 start that. 



Andrew Elliott, of Ontario. I am happy to find that Mr. Hamilton thinks the 

 time has arrived for movable schools. This is a movement in exactly the right line. 

 It is true enough tliat we can not dispense with the old system of farmers' institute 

 work for the young people growing up, but we must go a little bit farther ahead, and 

 wi' must no longer be content with telling people how to do a thing; but we must 

 also tell them why it has to l)e done, and then we have them on a thinking basis, 

 and it is the lack of thought that is the greatest drawback we meet in the agricultural 

 connnunity. 



The Chairman. Ontario has had a movable school in a little different form — a 

 dairy school. How long did they stay in one place? 



G. A. Putnam, of Ontario. We have not had what you might call movable schools 

 in Ontario, but we have had the traveling dairy. That was started some fifteen years 

 ago. The method in that was for an advance agent, as I might call him, to travel 

 from place to place throughout the dairy section, and consult with prominent dair\- 

 men in the different districts, and arrange with them for a suitable place in which a 

 dairy meeting could be held. This advance agent made jirovision for the supply of 

 cream and a suitable place for the churning demonstration to be held, and in many 

 jdaces a lecture was given in the meeting in addition to the demonstration. I had 

 almost forgotten about this, it is so many years ago. But this same thing is now being 

 carried on in the Province of Nova Scotia. Miss Rose, one of our workers, in the 

 winter months, spent some time in Nova Scotia, and she has had most successful 

 meetings. She held a series of meetings, with four sessions, two sessions each day, for 

 two days in a place, this summer, with an average attendance of 64 at the meetings. 



Four or five of the lady delegates who went from Province to Province attending 

 institute meetings during the pa.st summer mentioned to me that they never came 

 across poorer samples of butter than in the hotels where they were. We attribute 

 the success of our butter makers in Ontario to the work of these schools I have 

 mentioned. 



0; C. Gregg. This matter of the traveling dairy was introduced into our institute 

 work through Professor Carlisle, who is now in Colorado, and the commission men 

 said that right there began the revolution in butter making in Minnesota. 



G. C. Creelman, of Ontario. It seems to me this is pretty well summed up. You 

 may (rail it a movable school, or call it bringing the live stock out to the meetings; 

 you may call it getting a special car and running through the country; you can call 

 it putting a churn on a wagon and going from point to point giving demonstrations 

 of dairying, or whatever you please; but the fact remains that the people at the 



