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be able to talk and express his thuughtis, stand upon his feet and ex- 

 press his thoughts as that farmer did. And so this shows that you 

 are unconsciously doing a great work in this State, that you know 

 not the good of and no man will ever know and it behooves you to be 

 careful as to what you say and what you do and the manner in 

 which you deport yourselves. 



1 believe that one of the greatest works of the farmers' institutes 

 in this State has been the elevation of the farmer's wife. We have 

 preached belter country homes and from my own personal knowledge 

 1 know that the institutes have made thousands of better homes. We 

 have had the farmer spend a little of his money for modern improve- 

 ments in his home and to-day thousands of them have them because 

 the institutes put the thought and desire in their minds to have them. 

 We have done much to relieve the monotony of the woman's life upon 

 the farm. 1 was going to say drudgery, but I believe if the institutes 

 w'ill continue along the lines of teaching the doctrine of better homes 

 and elevation of the farm Avoman in making her labor lighter and 

 getting her hours of rest and all that tends to elevate, the institute 

 workers of the future will continue to do the good work that has been 

 done in the past. 



MK. A. P. YOUNG: As I represent one of the counties which has 

 been endeavoring to hold movable schools 1 want to say that in my 

 own county the movable school is superior to the farmers' institute 

 in that it give** more time to discussion of questions that are taken 

 up. They can be gone into more thoroughly than they can at the far- 

 mers' institute and consequently are an advantage. But as to the 

 making up of the program for the movable school, we have never at- 

 tempted that in our county. We have depended upon the symposium 

 sent out by the Director of Institutes and the arrangement of the 

 topics has been left entirely to the speakers. We had Dr. Conard in 

 our county and Prof. Cooke there and they took up the dairy ques- 

 tion, and they showed tbo handling of milk and all that kind of thing, 

 and judging of cows, went to Ihe cattle and looked over the cow while 

 they explained the different points. Now our schools heretofore have 

 been confined to the topics that were mentioned this afternoon, be- 

 tween three speakers. Now I think it would be well to vary that a 

 little. Let us have the cereal question taken up and perhaps the rais- 

 ing of stock in the different departments, so that we are not confined, 

 so that it does not become monotonous. To my mind the growth of 

 the agricultural interests depends more upon the movable schools of 

 agriculture than upon any other one thing. The institute has become 

 rather lagging. It is no longer as interesting as it should be and the 

 topics should be taken up and treated by men equipped to treat them 

 and capable of treating them and treating them fully so that the 

 people can come there and get ideas and they can go home and sleep 

 over them and come back the next day and get questions answered 

 that have come up in their minds as they thought the matter over. 

 In these things the movable school is superior to the old farmers' in- 

 stitute. 



MKS. ZEIGLER: I thought I would like to make a little plea for 

 woman's work in this institute work. We are told to say what we 

 thought w^ould be for the betterment and the interest of institutes and 

 I feel thatVoman has a great work to do along this line. Indeed it i^ 



