302 REl'OllT UF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



Aniorionn Associntion of Farmers' Institute Workers, a puhlicalion 

 of tlie I)ei)artinent, consisting of Dl pages. 



Six illustrative lectures prejiared by expert scientists were edited 

 under the general supervision of the institute specialist embracing 

 the following subjects: Care of Milk, illustrated by 44 lantern slides, 

 12 pages; Potato Diseases and Their Treatment, illustrated by 47 

 lantern slides, W pages; Acid Soils, illustrated by 58 lantern slides, 

 28 pages; Profitable Cattle Feeding, illustrated by 45 lantern slides, 

 21 pages; Silage and Silo Construction for the South, illustrated by 

 50 lantern slides, 81 pages, and Essentials of Field Experimentation, 

 illustrated by 82 lantern slides, 24 pages. 



Bulletin No. 185, entitled "Legislation Relating to Farmers' Insti- 

 tutes in the United States and the Province of Ontario," has been 

 revised. The names of 1,586 local institute managers have been se- 

 cured and arrangements have been made for supplying these persons 

 Avith farmers' institute literature. 



The list of farmers' institute lecturers, known as Circular No. 51 

 of the Office of Experiment Stations, was revised and furnished to the 

 State directors of institutes, and also to the directors of the experi- 

 ment stations, accompanied with the request to the station directors 

 that their official publications be sent regularly to those whose names 

 have been thus supplied. 



The exhibit room at the St. Louis Exposition assigned to the 

 farmers' institute workers of the country w^as supplied during the 

 continuance of the exposition with suitable literature and illustrative 

 material. 



The Bureau of Plant Industry of the Department of Agriculture 

 furnished a man for about six weeks to represent it in its seed testing 

 and investigation work in the farmers' institutes of Pennsylvania with 

 excellent results. The chief of that Bureau has arranged for two 

 members of his force to perform similar service during the coming 

 institute season. If cooperation of this character could be secured 

 generally with all of the representative interests of this Department 

 the service would not only be appreciated by the State directors of 

 institutes, but would do much to popularize the Department's work by 

 placing directly in the possession of the men Avho need help valuable 

 infornuition which the Department has at hand, much of which imder 

 existing conditions is virtually inert. 



Correspondence with farmers' institute workers and others has been 

 conducted during the year, information given, and a large number of 

 the Department's publications have been distributed. 



There have been collected and compiled ready for publication his- 

 tories of the farmers' institute movement in the United States, ar- 

 ranged by States and Territories, and there is also on hand ready for 



