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ARTICLE XI. — COMMITTEE ON EXPERIMENTATION IN AGRICULTURE. 



Section 1. The comiuittee oii experimentation in agriculture shall investigate the 

 sul)ject of cooperative exjierimentation and demonstration farms among farmers, with 

 a view to the discovery of the best methods for organizing and conducting this work. 

 The committee shall make report to the board of directors at its annual meeting. 



ARTICLE XII. — COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURAL FAIRS. 



Section 1. The committee on agricultural fairs is charged with the duty of inves- 

 tigating the county fair associations of the State and of reporting their condition to 

 the l)oard of directors at its annual meeting with suggestions for increasing their 

 usefulness. 



article XIII. committee on circulating libraries and farmers' READING COURSES. 



Section 1. The committee on circulating libraries and farmers' reading courses 

 shall make a careful study of what is being done in these directions and suggest to 

 the board at its regular aimual meeting such additions and improvements as it may 

 deem best in order to extend most widely the benefits of these features of the institute 

 work. 



ARTICE XIV. — COMMITTEE ON THE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE AND EXPERIMENT STATION. 



Section 1. The committee on the agricultural college and experiment station shall 

 each vear visit these institutions in order to familiarize themselves with their work, 

 and shall make report to the board of farmers' institute directors, suggesting and 

 i-ecommending methods by which the institutes can be most helpful in promoting 

 their interests. 



ARTICLE XV. COMMITTEE ON THE IMPROVEMENT OF COUNTRY YOUTH. 



Section 1. The committee on the improvement of country youth is charged with 

 the duty of devising means for the improvement of the young people throughout the 

 rural districts, and is directed to submit each year a report to the board upon this 

 subject at its annual meeting. 



ARTICLE XVI. amendments. 



Section 1. These by-laws may be amended at any regular meeting of the board of 

 directors by a majority of all of the members of the board voting in the afBrmative, 

 but such amendment must be submitted in writing, tileil with the secretary, and 

 read at two regular meetings next preceding that on which the vote is taken. 



CONSTITUTION FOR A COUNTY FARMERS' INSTITUTE SOCIETY. 



Article I. This organization shall be known as the County Farmers' Insti- 

 tute Society. 



object. 



Article II. The object of this society shall be to assist and encourage useful educa- 

 tion among farmers and to develop the agricultural resources of this county by means 

 and through the holding of farmers' institutes in cooperation with the State board of 

 farmers' institute directors, as ])r()vide(l l>y the act of assembly creating that board; 

 by organizing and aiding townshi]) institute societies and district farmers' clubs; by 

 disseminating useful agricultural information; by teaching better methods in general 

 farming, stock raising, dairying, fruit culture, and other branches of agricultural 

 industry; and in general to promote the moral, intellectual, social, and material wel- 

 fare of the community. 



membership. 



Article III. Any resident of the county of legal age may become a member of 

 this society by signing the constitution and jiaying a matriculation fee of -* — cents, 



and may continue inenil)ership by the payment each year of cents and dues. 



Only members of the society shall be entitled to vote. 



