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these sons are asking whether the years of wandering, 

 should not now give place to the permanent home? Does 

 not a wise answer demand a recognition of facts as they 

 exist today^ not as they may have been fifty years ago ? 

 The above is respectfully submitted by 



Chas. a. Mills. 



FARMERS' INSTITUTES. 



The Society held six Institutes and one field meeting 

 during the season of 1892-3, on as many different days 

 forenoon and afternoon, at which the following subjects 

 were opened by carefully prepared essays, and freely dis- 

 cussed by any and all persons present who cared to dis- 

 cuss them, viz: 



1. "How to make Poultry keeping profitable.'' 



2. '■• Cooking." 



3. " The advantages of Special and General Farming." 



4. " A Brief History of Agricultural work in the 

 United States." 



5. " Highways and Road Building." 



6. " Fruit in general, and Pears in particular." 



7. '' Underdraining." 



8. '^Cranberry Culture." 



9. " Poultry." 



10. " Milch Cows." ■ 



11. " How to make small farms pay." 



12. " Experience among Farmers of California." 



The first Institute of the season, and 88th of the series, 

 ■was held at the Town Hall, West Newbury, in connection 

 with the State Board of Agriculture, Friday, Jan. 18, 1898. 

 The subject in the forenoon being " How to make Poul- 

 try-keeping Profitable," by Dr. George M. Twitchell, of 

 Augusta, Maine, who was introduced b}^ President Ap- 

 pleton. The speaker prefaced his remarks by saying that 

 as he was a professional man he did not wish his hearers 



