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operate with each other and to help each other; and all these things 

 could be brought about by the farmers' institutes. There is a great 

 scope of work for the farmers' institutes to do, and the question nar* 

 rows itself down to each community, wliat shall we do that will rasult 

 in the greatest good for our community. 



I liave nothing to say about the care of the farmers' institute 

 si)oakers. They are well enough cared for. There are instances in 

 which they sutTer. I know that I have endured with them and I 

 never was mucli the Avorse of the circumstances. If I accept the work 

 1 must accei)t it under the circumstances it comes, and I have always 

 tried to uianage to excuse the speakers when it was necessary that 

 they should go home and to use our local talent. Another thing, is to 

 get the peoi)le interested, get them to take to the work, and to ask 

 questions, and let the institute lecturers set the conditions before them 

 and instead of talking merely to be heard, talk to say something and 

 tell the people something thej ought to know. 



MK. WILSON: Mr. Chairman, I think about the Saturday evening 

 meeting, that could be avoided by the county chairman himself. He 

 has three or four days of institute, owing to the size of the county. 

 I was saying this, that the county chairman alone could arrange for 

 the avoidance of any trouble on Saturday evening. He has the num 

 ber of days for his institute and he can arrange it. If he has a place 

 where there is no good hotel accommodations, let that place come 

 first in the week and then Avind up where he has better hotel accomo- 

 dations and where the man does not have any travelling over Sun- 

 day. 



Now one of the questions which 1 think is before us to-day is, how 

 to better our institutes. That one we should have spent this afternoon 

 on. I think the best way to get interest in the institute is for the in- 

 stitute manager and his friends to talk up that institute. You cannot 

 go out for a week or a month, but talk everytime that you get an op- 

 portunity ; talk to the neighboring farmer, say something about far- 

 mers' institutes, tell him what a good thing it is and ask him to come 

 out the next time to the institute; tell Avhat you try to each them, 

 that they are doing things ; have everybody and anybody come to that 

 institute in your neighborhood. You cannot take a week to talk about 

 the institute and get interest created, but you can take time to do it. 

 Just as talking about the county fair. You would not expect to pre- 

 pare for the fair a week or two before. I have been a director of the 

 county fair for many years. AYe commence months before and talk 

 it up to everybody we meet. And it is the same way we should do 

 with the county institute. Why, take the preachers; they tell their 

 audience what subject they are going to preach on the next Sunday 

 and sometimes they announce a series of sermons away ahead and 

 to-day they are advertising their subjects in the papers away ahead, 

 and in that way they create an interest and get the people talking 

 about it ; and you will find the best way to get up interest is to talk 

 to everybody you meet about the farmers' institute. 



MR. SCHULTZ: I don't want to take up much of your time. T 

 haven't anything on your subject, but I am interested in the talk the 

 doctor gave us on roads. I believe the success of the farmer brings 



