310 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON INSTITUTES AND PUBLIC 



MEETINGS. 



[Read and accepted at the Annual Meeting, Jan. 7, 1902.] 



Not the least important work of the Board of Agriculture 

 is the educational or institute work. Your committee having 

 this in charge have given much thought and consideration to 

 the matter of institutes and public meetings. The list of 

 lecturers has been carefully revised and several new names 

 added, and the subjects named by the lecturers thoroughly 

 considered, Avith the result that we believe no better or more 

 complete list has ever been offered to the agriculturists of any 

 State. We believe that such talent as is hereby offered 

 should be more highly appreciated by the communities in 

 which the institutes are held ; and we would urge upon every 

 member of this Board the importance of large audiences at 

 each and every meeting, and that it is one of the duties 

 which you owe to your respective societies and the State 

 that the institutes be of the highest class, and that you do 

 all in your power to make them such. 



As this work is strictly for the promotion of agriculture, 

 we would urge that only subjects kindred to agriculture be 

 selected ; and, when the lecturer who is paid by the State is 

 before his audience, that all possible information should be 

 drawn from him on the subject on which he is advertised to 

 lecture ; and we are free to say that we believe no man 

 should go before any audience of the farmers of the State, 

 as an educator, with any secrets of his subject which he is 

 not willing to freely give. 



We believe that those societies whose meetings are at- 

 tended bv a small number should have some revival work 



