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Some Essentials tn the I'ennaneiuy of Farmers' Institutes, E. B. Voorhees, New 

 Brunswick, X. J. How the Farmers' Institutes and the Agricultural Colleges may 

 be mutually helpetl, Dr. James Mills, Guelph, Canada. How the National Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture may through its Institute Office Assist the State Institute Meet- 

 ings, John Hamilton, Washington, D. C. Women's Institutes, Miss Laura Rose, 

 Guelph, Canada, and Miss Agnes Smith, Hamilton, Canada. How the Institutes 

 can Bring the Mcjst Good to Our (iirls, INIiss Blanche Madilock, Guelph, Canada. 

 How to Enlist the Interest of Our Boys in Agriculture. Hon. John Dryden, Toronto, 

 Canada. 



There was a discussion of problems and methods in institute work, particijjated in 

 by delegates selected from different sections of the country; and the institute work 

 from the standpoint of the worker was discussed by D. C. Anderson, Andrew Elliott, 

 and Henry (;len<linning, of Ontario. 



The reports of the directors giving account of the institute work in the several 

 States all indicated that progress had been made during the year, and that apprecia- 

 tion of the work is becoming more general as the public becomes better acquainted 

 with what is being done for the benefit of agriculture througli this method of 

 instruction, and witli what is possible to be accomplished. 



Expressions with regard to the quality of the work required showed that the peo- 

 ple were not satistie<l with anything but the l)est. The problem now confronting 

 the institute directors is that of securing a sufficient number of capable instructors 

 to meet this need. Two of the State directors reported that they were about to 

 introduce into their system a normal school plan for training lecturers, the instruct- 

 ors in these schools to be selected from the forces of the agricultural college and 

 experiment station, and the school to continue from one to two or three weeks as the 

 necessities in each case seem to justify. 



On Thursday the members of the association and their friends were given a com- 

 plimentary trip to the Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph, where luncheon was 

 served and the visitors were escorted over the grounds and through the buildings by 

 the members of the faculty. The president. Dr. James Mills, in a short address, 

 exjilained to the association the work and purpose of the college. He called atten- 

 tion to its appreciation on the part of the citizens of Ontario by stating that during 

 the month of June, last year, over 30,000 farmers had visited the college and in- 

 spected its work, and that this year that number would probably be exceeded. On 

 the day that the association was at the college there were over 1,200 visiting farmers 

 present. This movement was begun, and has been developed to its present propor- 

 tions, through the instrumentality of the farmers' institutes of the Province. 



At a business meeting on Wednesday several amendments to the constitution, 

 proposed at the last annual meeting, were considered and adopted. Among them 

 was one providing for representation of this Department in the association by two 

 delegates, one from the Department at large and one from the Office of Experiment 

 Stations. Resolutions were passed expressing appreciation of the interest manifested 

 by the Department and the Office in the institute work and in the meetings of the 

 association, and approving the step which has been taken in establishing an agency 

 in the Department for its j)rouiotion and aid. 



On Friday morning such of the members as remained over were taken around the 

 city in a tallyho coach, and given opportunity to see its principal streets, public 

 buildings, and otlier objects of interest; after which they were driven to the 

 Dentonia Stock Farm, now owned by Mrs. W. H. Massey, of Toronto. The visitors 

 were shown over the dairy, and the various barns and other buildings connected 

 with this farm, all of which are complete in their appointments, and admirably ar- 

 ranged for their purposes. 



St. Louis was selected as the i)lace of the next meeting, the date being left for the 

 executive committee to fix. The officers elected for the ensuing year were: Presi- 



