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We therefore recommend that whenever any farmers' 

 organization in the State shall desire to have a course of not 

 more than three lectures on any farm subject, they may apply 

 to the secretary of the Board of Agriculture for a lecturer, 

 and the secretary, if he thinks the subject a proper one, shall 

 furnish a lecturer, providing he can secure a competent per- 

 son to attend on the dates named, and also providing that he 

 has not already been called on during the year to provide 

 lectures for more than thirteen courses. The lecturers shall 

 be paid out of the money appropriated for lectures. 



And we further recommend that the Board inauo-urate the 



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system of holding one summer institute meeting each year, 

 at such time and place as shall be decided upon by the Board ; 

 and that the secretary shall provide subjects and speakers 

 for the occasion. 



EDMUND HERSEY. 



F. W. SARGENT. 



C. D. RICHARDSON. 



CHARLES A. GLEASON. 



J. W. STOCKWELL. 



