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it cannot be discounted bj these experiment stations wbicli are 

 springing up, wliich will grow year by year, becoming top heavy year 

 by year, and reiiuire greater amounts of money to be appro})riated for 

 their support. Let there be one and that one well .sui)])()rted. 



DR. CONAUD: It seems to me that we as county chairmen could 

 do very mucli to assist the Director in arranging the schedule or pro- 

 gram for we are all acquainted with the lines of travel in our c(mn- 

 ties. We have gone over the most of the county and then we know 

 what railroad stations in the county will run us nearest and the best 

 line of travel and best hotels, and if w^e would, in making our sugges- 

 tions for the places for the institutes put them in the order that would 

 suggest the line of travel and say that it would be very convenient to 

 travel to tliose places in the order given, or something of that kind, it 

 would give the Director a little information that we have at hand, — 

 because we live there, — that he would have to look up and it might 

 help the thing along. 



I want to talk about the movable schools. The movable schools 

 seem to have led up to a better and more thorough discussion and 

 consideration of the few topics than the institutes. There has been 

 three topics assigned to each movable school, namely dairying, horti- 

 culture and poultry husbandry. Those are the three subjects assignee 

 for discussion. The schools consist of four days and evening sessions, 

 allowing two days for dairying. Now, in order to consider dairying 

 thoroughly in two days why you want to take it up in certain order. 

 You want to take up a certain feature first, another second and an- 

 other third, and so on, and there is nobody knows better how to do 

 that than the ones who are going to teach it. The ones who are going 

 to give that instruction can tell better how they can do it best tb^^r^ 

 any other ones. It will not do in getting up the program for the mov- 

 able schools to make it exactly like an institute program. The county 

 chairmen will ii;et them out of order, not because they want to oppose 

 the system adopted by the experts but simply because they do not fully 

 realize the difference between the movable schools and the farmers' in- 

 stitutes. Now, I have some topics that are not dairy topics at all 

 and it has so happened that questions were taken up not on the lines 

 of dairying, taking the mind entirely away from the subject under 

 discussion and instead of having a dairy session it was absolutely a 

 miscellaneous session. These programs are printed in advance of our 

 arrival and they are distributed very generally. Nearly always the 

 county chairmen have taken an interest and these programs are dis- 

 tributed out amongst the farmers and they come at certain times ex- 

 pecting to hear certain things and they go away disappointed because 

 we have to tear these programs to pieces. We cannot help it. We have 

 to do it in order to fulfill the logical mission of the movable schools. 

 So they are very generally and very freciuently torn to pieces, more or 

 less. I think the county chairmen should consult a little with the 

 Director as to how these programs had best be made. I want to make 

 this suggestion: That in preparing these programs we set certain 

 days for certain subjects exclusively. That is, if we have four days 

 session, give the first and second days exclusively to dairying and the 

 third day say to horticulture exclusively and thelFourth day to poultry 

 husbandry exclusively. Now that seems to be a better and more con 



