REPORT OF THE STATE ROUND-UP. 



As has been our habit for several years, the set addresses given at the 

 Round-up appear in this report in the form of abstracts made by the 

 speakers themselves. Reports of discussions and of the question box 

 have been furnished for this report by Prof. C. D. Smith. In this way we 

 have succeeded in compressing a complete record of the meeting into the 

 smallest possible space. 



WEDNESDAY FORENOON. 

 INTRODUCTORY. 



The Institute was called to order by J. G. Noble of Orion, President of 

 the Oakland County Farmers' Institute Society, who, in introducing Su- 

 perintendent K. L. Butterfield, said in substance: The Institute Society 

 of Oakland county did so well last year that the Round-up institute has 

 Bome to us as a reward for our well doing. It has required no little work 

 to bring about these results; work on the part of the officers and mem- 

 bers of the association, supplemented by the help of the business men of 

 the town and by the newspapers. Five one-day meetings were held in 

 the county last year, and one two-day county Round-up Institute. We 

 ascribe our success to a great degree to the wise generalship of the Su- 

 perintendent of Institutes, who, like a general commanding an army, has 

 had a comprehensive grasp of the whole situation in this county and in 

 the State at large. 



Superintendent Butterfield announced that several places in the State 

 had applied for the honor of entertaining the Round-up Institute, but that 

 it had come to Oakland county in 1899 largely because of the good work 

 done in that county in the previous campaign. 



This Round-up Institute is the one in which the work of the season 

 culminates and is summarized. Here both workers and the local com- 

 munity get enthusiasm for the year to come. The excellent record made 

 during the past year by the Oakland County Institute Society is the prin- 

 cipal reason for the selection of Pontiac as the place of meeting of the 

 culminating Institute this year. 



Roland Morrill, Benton Harbor, presided during the session. 



Mr. Morrill called attention to the peculiar situation of the farmers in 

 the matter of sugar beets. The legislature has given a bounty to the 



