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assistance. We are now preparing for our annual institute, to 

 be held in January. I came up in order to secure my help. I 

 would like to have tlie help of the sister that came here. It is 

 wonderful to me; it has given me great inspiration. I believe 

 in this institute work there is a great help to be given to the 

 farmer. The farmer has pride and ambition in himself which 

 has been neglected in the offspring from the home. We ought 

 to meet together in our home; but we need the assistance from 

 the outside world; from the mothers of our country, as we 

 have here today, trying to bring the children to a higher stand- 

 ard. We come to you today to ask your assistance. But the 

 inspiration I got from the mother, and from the sister upon the 

 platform, has inspired me with greater zeal to try and get my 

 mothers and sisters to do more for their children. 



At II :45 the convention adjourned until i 130 p.m. 



AFTERNOOX Se:s?I0N. 



Convention called to order at i 130 p.m. 



The President : We have with us this afternoon the Hon. 

 John Hamilton, Institute Specialist, Department of Agriculture, 

 Washington, D. C. After Mr. Hamilton's address, any ques- 

 tion any gentleman wishes to ask him, he will be glad to answer. 



I now have the pleasure of introducing to you the Hon. John 

 Hamilton. 



THE VALUE OF ORGANIZATION IN INSTITUTE WORK. 



Remarks by Mr. Hamilton. 



I suppose that I owe an apology to you for not being here this morn- 

 ing at the time I was put down on the program. I started in good time 

 from Washington City, and ought to have been here to have taken my 

 place at 9 o'clock, but the breakdown of two engines caused me to miss 

 connections at Chicago, and of course I failed to reach here in time. I 

 regret this because I wished very much to hear the discussions upon the 

 two subjects — "Should the Institute Law Be Changed" and "How To Con- 

 duct a Successful Institute." 'These topics have been before you, and if 

 what I shall say duplicates the things already mentioned, you will under- 

 stand that it is because I was not here and do not know what was stated 

 in the papers. 



