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by itself, and the same with the other interests. It is a somewhat 
different departure from the work as it has been usually conducted, 
bot [ think it is yoing to be a grand success. 
Mr. Dartt: I did not understand what question was being dis- 
cussed, and if I made any remarks that were out of the way its “fools 
for luck.” (Laughter.) 
S. D. Richardson: I would like to ask the gentlemen who has 
just sat down what he is going to do with an all-around man,a man 
who is interested the horse, cow, sheep, hog and horticulture,what is 
he going to do with such a man? 
Mr. Bush: He would be on the road most of the time. (Laughter.) 
Mr. Somerville: Iwill answer you in that particular. Where we 
occupy two halls it has been like this. I would talk at one hall and 
as soon as my time was out at that place I would go to the other 
hall, and the other man would come to the first hall and tell his 
story, and in that way they all heard our stories and were interested. 
I am aware there will be quite an interest expressed in horticulture 
where Mr. Bush lives, and there ought to be some person there to 
represent it; that is my neighborhood, and it is said “No prophet is 
without honor save in his own country.” 
Dr. M. M. Frisselle: I want to say a word or two about this farm- 
ers’ institute business. I quite subscribe to what Mr. Somerville 
has said, still I think there are one or two other points which might 
be brought out in connection with it. Mr. Greggs is a very able 
man in this work, and he has donea very grand work throughout 
the state. I have attended a good many of the institutes, and I know 
from the interest manifested in the instruction given that it was 
profitable, and the plan that has always been pursued at the various 
institutes of holding the meeting in the same hall and having the 
different interests combined is an excellentone. The audience likes 
achange. Itis like going outto dinner; we do not like roast beef 
all the time, and we don’t like coffee to drink all the time. Wherea 
man speaks twenty to thirty minutes on horticulture, another on 
hogs or on the dairy industry, the people like it better, and they really 
get more good out of it thanif two hours were spent in discussing 
one branch. 
Here is a point in which we might make an improvement: Our 
state is a very large state; the interest in these farmers’ institutes 
is largely increasing. It is surprising how the people come for 
those books that are published. Every man that comes to the 
institute gets one of those volumes. Any volume is worth a dollar, 
and they come long distances on purpose to get this book; and while 
they get this book they get a good deal of other information, and 
this book and this information should be more widely disseminated 
throughout our state. I had the fortune (misfortune to the people, 
I think,) to be out acouple of weeks With the institute corps, and I 
know people who came twenty miles to attend the farmers’ institute, 
and some farmers came that distance and went back the same night 
in weather as coldas itis today. I do not think I should want to go 
quite as far as that in weather likethis. In this large state of eighty 
counties or more, and with only one corps of institute workers, it is 
