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ELECTION OF OFFICERS. 



The election of officers for the ensuing- year now took place, 

 and the following were again nominated and unanimously 

 elected to serve in rheir respective capacities for another year: 



President Jared G. Smith 



Vice-President Wm. Weinrich, Jr. 



Secretary-Treasurer F. G. Krauss 



Messrs. Perley L. Home, Sweezey and S. Parker were elected 

 Executive Committee for the year. 



Jared G. Smith stated that he considered the executive com- 

 mittee an important department of the Institute upon which 

 responsible duties frequently devolved. He cited the instance 

 which occurred last year in which the committee cooperated 

 with the Delegate to Congress in an efifort to secure to the 

 Territory a tobacco expert from the National Department of 

 Agriculture, and the organization of an efficient soil survey 

 of the Islands. President Smith believed that both thes^ 

 requests would be acceded to when funds became availale for 

 the purposes referred to. 



Mr. Home moved that the Farmers' Institute again bring 

 before the Hon. Secretary of Agriculture at Washinton the 

 importance to the Territory of the establishment of a soil 

 survey and the appointment of an official thoroughly conver- 

 sant in the cultivation of tobacco. The motion was seconded 

 and carried. 



It had been arranged to inspect the Kamehameha School 

 farm, and 'the industrial shops of the manual training school, 

 but the weather did not permit of this intention, and a most 

 interesting part of the program had in consequence to be 

 abandoned. 



II. EVENING SESSION. 



The evening proceedings commenced at eight o'clock. Mr. 

 P. L. Home, President of the Schools, extended the hearty wel- 

 come of Kamehameha Schools to the Farmers' Institute. ' He 

 considered the Schools fortunate that the Institute should 

 hold is annual meetings at Kamehameha, whose pupils re- 

 ceived an agricultural training, and by the natural course of 

 events, should become the future farmers of the Territory. 

 The annual farmers' meeting at the Schools should do much 

 to encourage and inspire those wdio were now fitting them- 

 selves to take their place in the domain of husandry. He 

 recognized the importance of the work which the Institute 

 was doing, and wished that some way could be devised to 

 bring its operations more clearly before the community. The 

 best way to achieve this, he thought was for the Institute and 

 all who were interested in the objects for which it was founded 



