The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-03-18
FARMERS INSTITUTE MEETS.
Private Secretary McCabaS Address Of
Welcome.
Interesting Papers by Professor Hill
gard and Charles E.
Mack.

The Farmers Institute, held under
the auspices of the State University,
commenced yesterday morning at the
Art Gallery, and will continue to-day
also.
Daniel Flint called the. meeting to
order, and said that if there was no
objection he would call on r. c. Irvine
to preside over the institute.
Mr.. Irvine took the chair, and after
brief remarks called on Governor Budd
t. deliver the address of welcome.
The Governor not being able to be
present, E. D. McCabe responded for
him in well-chosen remarks. He hoped
the farmers who had met here for an
Interchange of ideas would go away
feeling that they had gained much by
comparing their experiences.
The farmer, he said, has had a diffl-
cult task, with low prices and poor
crops, to manage to make agriculture
self-sustaining and profitable. 1t was
therefore thought well to have these
meetings, where the best farmers OF
the State could state their methods and
the results of their experience to others
who might go home with information
that might aid them in making their
work more remunerative.
These meetings are held under the
auspices of the State University, and ii
is hoped that they will result in much
advantage to the agricultural interests
of the State. He hoped that at no dis
tant day the industry would be rehab-
ilitated in it's old state of prosperity
In the name of the Governor he bade
them welcome, and hoped they would
find the institute both pleasant and
profitable.
Mr.. Woodson, in behalf Of the insti-
tute, returned thanks for the welcome
expressing his surprise that he shoulc
be called upon, but he had been as
sured of the propriety of the call, be-
cause the institute is an-embracing III
its membership, and invites to its coun-
sells all people, no matter what thelf
vacations. After graceful words OF ac-
ceptance and thanks. he presented in prle1
form two thoughts for consideration
the need to check the drift from coun-
try to town, and the necessity for CIV
ing to rural life as fully as may De
possible the advantages, refinements
and opportunities of social life in the
town To those ends he looked with
interest. first, upon the promotion OF
all wise measures to lessen distance
and. shorten time between town and
country, namely, by good, economic,
swift money saving highway construc-
den; and, secondly, the betterment OF
rural environment by promoting the
love for order, cleanliness and neat
oil a +
ter of high Importance. Upon these
two he dwelt, pointing out the moral,
Intellectual and social benefits to flow
from their furtherance, regardless OF
failing crops or great prosperity, and
independent of low prices and disap-
pointing agricultural rewards or great
success in farming.
c. E. Mack was unanimously chosen
Secretary of the institute.
THE UNIVERSITY.
Edwin F. Adams addressed the insti-
tute on THE Relation Of the University
&c Farmers"
He said that the university sends out
no orators, nor does it offer any enter
tainments, except the entertainment
offered by the discussion of the sub
:ects pertaining to the objects for
which the Institutes are called.
The question of the relation of the
university to farmers and the point
that the university wishes to present is
that it should be the leader of the
PEOPLE in thought and their leader in
study The great need of the farmer
to-day is to study. But these meetings
are not merely to that end, as the OBJ
jcct lies further beyond. Professor
Woodwork cannot present in an hour
the subject of insect pests as fully as
he would present it to his class, nor car
Professor Hilgard do so with his sub
ject.
No people can be made intelligent OF
prosperous except by their own eff
forts. No university can do it. But in
working for the uplifting of a class, il
is necessary to have leadership and di-
rection of effort. The farmers of Cali
fornia are not prosperous to-day, but
they are not alone in that position. The
traditions used to be that the farmer
was an independent man, but to-day he
is not so. In the early days it was
true, as he lived on the borders of civ
ilzation, where he could make half his
living by hunting, and always had a
surplus of his produce to sell. He took
his grain to mill and brought home his
-four.
To-day any farmer who wishes to re-