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III. 



The following from various State institutions and departments were 

 ayailable for expenses only: 



Dr. a. C. Lane, Assistant State Geologist, Houghton: 



1. — The occurrence of coal. (Illustrated with stereoi)ticon.) 

 2. — Best farm water supply. 

 3.— Geology of Lower Michigan. 



FROM THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION. 



SUPT. Jason E. Hammond, Lansing: 



1. — Affiliation of country schools with higher educational institutions. 



2.— The text-book situation in Michigan. 



3.— Better country school houses. (Illustrated with model.) 



4. — Higher qualifications for teachers. 



5.— School libraries in Michigan. 



6. — School equipment. 

 Prop. Chas. McKennny, Principal, Central Michigan Normal School, Mt. Pleasant: 



1. — The future of our rural schools. 



2. — Determining factors in life. 



3.— Some laws of mind growth in children. 



4.— The moral training of chidren. 



5.— The mission of America. 

 Hon. Perry F. Powers, Cadillac: 



1. — The school and the home. 



2.— Education and citizenship. 



FROM STATE BOARD OF CORRECTIONS AND CHARITIES. 



L. C. Storrs, Secretary, Lansing: 

 1. — Our prison system. 

 2.— The State's children. 

 3. — District poor houses vs. county poor houses. 



FROM STATE BOARD OF HEALTH. 



President Frank Wells, Lansing: 



1.— Hygiene for the farm home. 

 Judge A. V. McAlvay, Manistee: 



Any sanitary topic. 

 Dr. F. R. Belknap, Niles: 



1.— The farmer's health, the farmer's wealth. 



2. — Healthy homes for farmers. 



3. — How to deal with tlie dangerous communicable diseases. 

 Dr. S. G. Milker, Grand Rapids: 



1. — Hygiene for the homestead. 

 Secretary Henry B. Baker, Lansing: 



1. — How can we prevenc or avoid the most dangerous diseases? 



2. — How to ventilate and warm a house. 



FROM UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN. 



Prof. Henry C. Adams, Professor of Political Economy and Finance. 



1. — Local taxation. 

 Prop. H. S. Carhart, Professor of Physics. 



1.— Lightning rods, an^. how to make them. 

 Prof. J. B. Davis, Professor of Geodesy and Surveying: 



1.— Good roads. 

 Prop. B. A. Hinsdale, Professor of the Science and the Art of Teaching. 



1.— The Michigan system of public insti'uction. 

 Dr. W. B. Hinsdale, Professor of Theory and Practice of Medicine, and Clinical 

 Medicine: 



1.— Practical farm sanitation. 



2.— The adulteration of food and farm products. 



