FOURTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART I. 21 



and by asking- questions (which didn't seem to puzzle him very 

 much), the meeting became one of the most interesting- I ever 

 attended. 



A good plan to conduct an institute is to get a certain num- 

 ber of outside institute workers who have the facult}- of l>ring- 

 ing- out the home talent, cause men to tell what they know. A 

 great many farmers do not tell what they know; some tell a 

 ^^•hole lot more than they know. 



/\ Member : I am a farmer. I brought two or three or four 

 of my neighbors with me, and they have been punching my 

 back to say something, so that we would be represented in this 

 convention. When I started from home I went down with the 

 intention, as I heard it rumored around, altogether different 

 from what I find it here today. They told me, as I got it 

 through certain papers, that it was a kind of a farmers' union 

 orp-anization. Of course, thev mav call it farmers union or 

 they may call it farmers of agriculture; I don't know. But it 

 seems to me they are talking about raising corn and raising 

 alfalfa in Kansas and other points, and do not come down to the 

 fact \\'hich concerns very much the farming community. 



Xow, I may be entirely out of order in explaining myself, bu' 

 it is with the intention I come to find out something inj-egard to 

 disposing of our agricultural product. Now most anybody 

 can raise something. Of course, we can raise it as well as these 

 here professionals of some college, that has the State to back 

 them ; they can experiment with one thing or another and they 

 can get certain things to grow remarkably well. The gentleman 

 from Kansas is going to talk alfalfa ; it didn't do at all with me. 

 But as I said before, we can raise a whole lot, but what can we 

 get for it ? 



A Member: This is a sort of a Methodist love feast to me. 

 Brother Secor's suggestion is quite applicable. It is like the 

 measles; it is contagious. Now, I have always doubted, at least 

 for a few days I have doubted, the sanity of my wife. The 

 other morning she said to me that the Lord Almighty, when 

 he distributed that article called common sense, that I must have 

 been liidden somewhere. 1 am also reminded (^f something Sen- 



