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and the men who wrote them have evi- 

 dently gone to a great deal of trouble, 

 as the present essay would indicate. 

 Now, then, to place in the hands of 

 three people, after these gentlemen took 

 the pains to write them, I think it would 

 be a serious mistake. The assumption 

 is that the committee on program, being 

 made up of the President, Vice-Presi- 

 dent, Secretary and Treasurer, would 

 have sufficient intelligence wTiat men to 

 select to write essays which should be 

 read before this Association, and 1 hope 

 the Association will vote that down at 

 once, and not allow any such thing to 

 be done. This Association cannot afford 

 to scratch out a single line. If the essays 

 that follow are of the character of this 

 one just read, we cannot spend our time 

 better than to listen to the reading of 

 them. I do hope seriously that this 

 Association won't do anything of the 

 kind, but will take it for granted that 

 the people who solicited these essays 

 were careful not to solicit essays that 

 would not be proper to bring befora this 

 Association. I feel seriously about this 

 thing, and I think we are going to make 

 a mistake if we pass this resolution. 



Mr. Richardson — I second that. I do 

 not think it would be right to ask these 

 men to write these essays and then put 

 a committee over them to tell me what I 

 want to hear and what I don't want to 

 hear. 



Mr. Holtermann — It is quite a cus- 

 tomary thing to appoint a committee to 

 take up the essays after they have been 

 read, and if there is anything in them to 

 bring forth a discussion, to bring it out. 



Dr. Miller — I want to say to you as I 

 said before, it is not a new thing to me. 

 In an agricultural society in our State it 

 has the same kind of a committee ap- 

 pointed, and I want to say this : I sec- 

 onded the motion and I voted to return 

 thanks to Mr. Gravenhorst, and I know 

 he deserves the hearty thanks of these 

 people here for his valuable essay, but I 

 want to say to you I do not think that it 

 is profitable for us to take time here to 

 spend on these essays that we can read 

 just as well at home. Here is a very 

 interesting essay, and I would be inter- 

 ested in it as much as any one in the 

 room, and I would like to sit down and 

 read it at home, but there is nothing in 

 it which we want to discuss here, and if 

 we are to measure the rest by what we 

 have received there would be something 

 like two hours taken up in listening to 

 essays which we could just as well read 

 at home. 1 think if a committee is ap- 

 pointed they will pick out the practical 



points, and then have these essays 

 printed. But if you think it is profitable 

 for us to discuss them when we have 

 come here long distances, and if they 

 contain practical things for n^ ro discuss 

 here, let us have them. I am not doing 

 it with any thought of censuring the 

 program committee in making their 

 choice; but if it is the profitable thing 

 for us to have essays read, I will sit here 

 and listen to them, but I do think there 

 are things that belong to a convention 

 that don't belong elsewhere. We came 

 here to discuss points that we cannot 

 have the opportunity to discuss through 

 the bee-papers. I certainly want the 

 brothers to feel that it is only with the 

 heartiest respect, and only with the 

 utmost kindness, that I say these things. 



Mr. Root— All I will add is to give my 

 opinion. As the President has requested 

 the people to furnish the essays, we 

 should read them, if only out of respect 

 for our President. That is my opinion 

 in regard to the matter. 



Mr. Richardson — You don't appear to 

 catch my meaning. You propose to put 

 a committee on here to say what is in- 

 teresting to me and what is not. You 

 might put on a committee that might re- 

 ject a point that I had come here to 

 learn about. You may have learned all 

 about these things 50 or 30 years ago, 

 and it may be what I have come here to 

 find out about. 



The motion made by Dr. Miller was 

 lost by a nearly unanimous vote, where- 

 upon the discussion of the essay was 

 resumed. 



(To be continued.) 



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