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other danger; if we dealit out in large doses, if we undertake to 
cover the whole question, we will be liable to exhaust our stock of 
knowledge, and there would be nothing left of us. 
Pres. Underwood: I would like to say a few words on this sub- 
ject. By virtue of my office as president of this society I am one of 
the directors of the farmers’ institute. A number of our members 
have spoken to me about the farmers’ institute, and have asked me, 
“What is Mr. Gregg doing, and how is the horticultural interest be- 
ing represented?” and I did not feel as though I knew anything 
about it, so I wrote a lot of letters to different parts of the state and 
talked with Mr. Gregg in order to get myself more directly in line 
with the work. While I think of it, want to say that there isa 
great deal of force in what Mr. Dartt has said, that people’s minds can 
contain only so much. I think itis like listening to a speech or 
sermon; when the mind becomes full it does not retain any more, 
and the speaker might as well stop. You filla pail full, and you 
cannot make it holdanymore. I think, as friend Dartt has said, you 
do not want to give the subject too much time. As Mr. Somerville 
says, you cannot successfully conduct a farmers’ institute without 
having the different branches of horticulture, agriculture, dairying 
and the farm interests represented. Iam certain that it has to be 
conducted on that line in order that it may beasuccess. Mr. Gregg 
has made a success of it, and all we want to do is to be prepared to 
present our interests in the best manner possible and in the time 
that is alloted of us. 
These institutes have to be conducted like an entertainment. You 
call together a great lot of people, some hog men, some horsemen, 
some cattle men, dairymen, beekeepers and those representing ~ 
other interests—and in order to make a success of an institute, you 
must have these various interests represented—, and you want a 
shrewd, sharp, witty, intellectual man, in fact, you want all of those 
qualities combined in a man in order to stand up before an audience 
and hold their attention and make a success of it. All I want to say 
‘is, that as a representative of this horticultural society, if any of the 
members can suggest anything to me whereby I may, with any 
influence I may have by virtue of my office, further the interests of 
horticulture, I shall be glad to have you do so. I shall be glad to 
have you talk with me or correspond with me in regard to this mat- 
ter as how to best develop our interests in the farmers’ institutes. 
That is what Mr. Gregg wants. Be prepared to suggest things, to 
hold up his hands, and if we have our minds upOn this matter, we 
can do so. In corresponding with the various members of the 
society, they have invariably expressed themselves as being satis- 
fied with the work that was being done, and had no suggestions to 
offer as to what was needed. I can assure you that during the next 
year, if we have a mind to—and let us all try to do it—we can greatly 
advance our horticultural interest in the institute work. 
Mr. Bush: I met Dr. Curryer the other day; he was in our village 
to arrange for an institute, and we shall have three or four halls, and 
we shall try to bunch our horticultural interests, and dairy interests 
and others in each of those halls. The dairy interests will havea hall 
