Excerpt from Michigan State Farmers' Institutes, Vol. 10: Winter of 1903-1904 As a rule, two men and one woman speaker were sent to each two day institute but, in a number of cases, special talks upon Good Roads, Farm Law, Veterinary Science and Educational topics were ar ranged for. For the most part, two speakers appeared upon the pro gram in the forenoon and three in the afternoon and evening of each day. In many of the counties the topics embraced Tillage, Rotation of Crops, Potato Culture, Sugar Beets, Clover, Corn, Beans. Alfalfa, Grain and other Crops, Dairying, Feeding of Cattle, Sheep and Swine, Silo, Farm Machinery, Poultry Raising, Apple, Peach and Plum Culture, Small Fruits, Spraying, Good Roads, Forestry, etc. During the afternoon session of the first day, the lady speaker took up, in the general session, some topics relative to the household or perhaps Poultry Raising or Butter Making on the Farm, and the second afternoon conducted a Women's section. In a large number of counties there is evidently a growing interest in the subject of Centralized Schools and this was upon the program in no less than forty counties. As the members of the College faculty are quite busy with class room work during the winter months, they were able to devote but little time to attending farmers' institutes, but quite a number of them were secured for a single week. There are a large number of others who devoted one or more weeks to attending institutes without recompense beyond their actual expenses, among them were Horatio S. Earle, of Detroit, State Highway Commissioner; Charles W. Garfield, of Grand Rapids, president of the State Forestry Commission and R. D. Graham, of the State Board of Agriculture. As in previous years, a considerable amount of assistance was furnished by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, Prof. Delos Fall and his deputy, Prof. Walter H. French, and others from the office, while Prof. George W. Loomis of the Central Normal School, Mt. Pleasant, attended institutes in three counties. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.