56 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Mr. Franklin : I desire to say a little, and very much along 

 the line Mr. King has been talking. I take issue with him on 

 this one ground. The people of Iowa would pay Mr. Wing in 

 order to get him. We haven't any difficulty in getting speakers 

 when we hold an institute, as in Calhoun, or down at Mt. Ayr, 

 or a dozen places I might name; the hall won't hold the people 

 They have a little organization of their cwn; in addition <"0 

 that paid by the state, they pay a membership fee. It has been 

 tried in Iowa, as Mr. Van Houten has said; they w^n't have it. 

 The county has its organization and they are going to stay right 

 by it, and if they can't get one man, they will get another. We 

 are getting more every year. 



A Member : This organization does not want to lay down 

 any cast iron rules in regard to getting up a program. All we 

 ask them to do is to send in their dates and the subjects and the 

 men they want, and we will endeavor to get these men, and as- 

 sign those dates and subjects to conform to those counties as near 

 as it can be done. We don't want to lay down any rule of that 

 kind. In all the counties they ask for outside help, and I think 

 nearly all ask for college help. We couldn't supply them all. We 

 have some seven or eight days to fill those paces for college men. 

 Now, it took considerable correspondence to get Mr. Ames. The 

 idea of the association is to try and hold them so that we can get 

 them at less expense. 



Mr. Adair, of Butler County: I have had some little ex- 

 perience in institute work. I was at the "borning" at our institute 

 in Butler county and have been in with it since. I am proud to 

 say it has been very successful. I think it was Prof. Holden who 

 mentioned the fact it would be very nice if they could form a 

 circuit in a few counties, so that the speakers could be of more 

 benefit to the people, and the reason that he brought that mat- 

 ter out was, because the day before he was to be with us he was at 

 Clarinda, in Page County. Our institute that year was held in 

 Parkersburg, Butler county; he had quite a distance to travel, 

 but he was with us nevertheless and did a great deal of good, 

 and the next year we followed his advice and formed a tri- 

 cdunty institute organization, consisting of Butler, Bremer and 

 Chickasaw counties, and since that time we have held three insti- 



