OBJECTS AND OPERATION 245 



become more conversant with the best and most profitable 

 methods of farming, stock raising, dairying, fruit culture, 

 and all branches of business connected with the industry 

 of agriculture. 



Each Institute is required to hold at least 

 five meetings every year in different places 

 in the district in which it operates, and at 

 these meetings, except in the case of the 

 annual meeting, papers are to be read or ad- 

 dresses delivered on questions relating to agri- 

 culture, horticulture, dairying, or kindred sub- 

 jects. It is stipulated that " free discussion 

 shall be encouraged,' 1 and to this end the prac- 

 tice is to make the papers short and suggestive 

 rather than complete, so as to encourage a 

 general exchange of views. It is further laid 

 down that "all institutes organized under the 

 Act shall be strictly non-partisan and non-sec- 

 tarian in every phase of their work, and no insti- 

 tute shall be operated in the direct interest of 

 any party, sect, or society, but for the equal 

 good of all citizens and the farming com- 

 munity." 



All money received, whether ;is members 

 fees, legislative giant, grant from the County 

 Councils or from municipalities, or otherwise, 

 is to be spent within the district in which the 

 institute operates (1) to defray actual expenses 



