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Mr. Gregg, is one of the best men to run this thing I ever saw, 

 and when he sees that people are interested in horticulture he 

 will lengthen my time to three-fourths of an hour and cut some 

 one else off. 



R. P. Lupton: — -I attended the institute at Excelsior and I 

 was very agreeably surprised at the time allowed horticultural 

 subjects. 



Pres. Elliot: — I would state that I have been on the institute 

 board for the last three years, and we have been feeling our 

 way very carefully in regard to horticultural work. The time 

 three years ago was all given to the hog, the horse, etc. , and 

 you could not get a word in edgewise about horticulture ; they 

 did not want to hear anything about that, but the demand now 

 seems to be reaching out toward horticulture, and we have now 

 got to that point where we can have at least one-half hour each 

 session to devote to horticulture, and I am in hopes that the 

 time is coming, as has been suggested, when there will be two 

 institutes at work in our state at the same time. I think this 

 is the true plan for doing this work. 



J. O. Barrett: — I want to ask Mr. Somerville what, in his 

 idea, can be done to get our books out. We ought to have them 

 at all our institutes. 



Prof. Green: — We have not half enough to go around. 



J. O. Barrett: — I receive the books every year, fifty I think. 

 I paid the bill myself one year to get these books distributed 

 They are very highly appreciated. Some come back to me 

 and express their gratitude for giving them that book. 



Pres. Elliot': — There is a plan on foot now, if we can effect it, 

 to issue a hand book on horticulture in connection with our in- 

 stitute work, and we want from fifteen to twenty thousand a 

 year. When we come to hold forty institutes, as we did last 

 year, we can distribute and should have at least twenty thous- 

 and books, and take that with forestry and all the different 

 lines of work we are carrying on here it seems to me we would 

 be making pretty fair progress. 



L. H. Wilcox: — There are some very important resolutions 

 prepared for the committee on resolutions to act 

 upon, in which this society and the Farmers Institute are 

 very much interested, and I move that Mr. Somerville be ap- 

 pointed to appear before that committee to present this work 

 to their consideration at that time. 



Col. J. H. Stevens: — Our institute work is copied from Wis- 

 consin. Wisconsin is the pioneer in that work. Gov. Hoard, 



