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down-pour won't penetrate it; and then if the wind comes, good 

 dry and strong, it may dry them all out; if it does not, you may 

 have to spread them out. Now, if the hay is dry enough, so that 

 when you tw^ist it vigorously without being wet, we put it in the 

 barn. If you are putting only a few loads in the barn, you have 

 got to have it dry. 



Mr. Smith: Does it ever mold? 



Mr. Wing : No, we have a little horse stable where we put 

 in two or three loads. When we put much together, it don't 

 mold. This green color they talk about in Nebraska, about it 

 rotting; I went out to see it; it wasn't anything more than you 

 would see in curing tobacco ; it just simply lost its color. 



The President : The next paper is entitled, "The Eastern 

 Iowa Institute Organization." by Fred McCulloch, Hartwick, 

 Iowa. 



THE EASTERN IOWA INSTITUTE ORGANIZATION. 



Fked McCulloch, Hartwick, I a., 



No doubt those of you who attended the State Farmers' Institute 

 and Agricultural Convention last year will remember that Secretary 

 Simpson in his annual report recommended that some change be made 

 in the managing and conducting of county farmers' institutes. The 

 matter was not taken up at that meeting, but when several of us 

 were returning home the subject was brought up and discussed and it 

 was decided that one of our number should take the matter up by 

 correspondence with the different officers of farmers" institutes in 

 eastern Iowa and ascertain their sentiments, and your humble servant 

 was selected for this task. 



I began early in January to first try and find out who the officers 

 were of the different institutes with which we desired to correspond, 

 and I found this a difficult task, as the Department of Agriculture 

 had no complete list, and it was necessary to take the matter up with 

 the different County Auditors. I finally succeeded in obtaining the 

 names and addresses of officers of eighteen organizations in east cen- 

 tral Iowa. 



It was then decided that a meeting should be called for the pur- 

 pose of getting the officers of these institutes together to discuss the 

 idea of forming an association for farmers institutes, and as Cedar 

 Rapids was the most centrally located for the proposed organization 

 the meeting was called for that place and invitations were sent out 

 to the different counties requesting the institute officers to be present 

 at the meeting set for February 28, 1905. 



