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THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF FARMERS' INSTITUTE 



WORKERS. 



The American Association of Farmers' Institute Workers held its 

 tenth annual meeting in Washin<j:ton, D. C, November 9-11, 1905. 

 The registered attendance numbered 92, representing 29 States and 3 

 of the provinces of Canada. 



The programme avoided technical subjects and devoted the time to 

 the presentation and discussion of the wider questions of institute 

 organization and influence. The method of computing the attend- 

 ance at the institutes was changed by the adoption of the following 

 resolutions : 



In view of the inaccuracy and misleading character of the method now in use 

 b}' this association for computing institute attendance: Therefore be it 



livsoUcd, First. That hereafter the number in attendance at ear-h session of 

 each institute shall be ascertained by actual count and recorded, and the aggre- 

 gate of all of the sessions shall be rejiorted as the total attendance for the year. 

 This aggregate, divided by the number of sessions, shall be regarded as the aver- 

 age attendance at each session. 



Second. That attendance at the annual round-up of institute workers, out-door 

 picnics, harvest-home meetings, and similar assemblages of farmers addressed 

 by institute speakers shall be reported separately from the regular institutes, the 

 total attendance for the entire meeting to be given instead of the number present 

 at each session. 



An important change in the organization of the association was 

 effected by the appointment of standing committees on the following 

 subjects: Rural schools, institute organization and methods, insti- 

 tute lecturers, cooperation with other educational agencies, movable 

 schools, boys' and girls' institutes, women's institutes, and legisla- 

 tion. The committees consist of three members each, to be chosen by 

 the executive committee. Their duties are to consider during the 

 intervals between the annual meetings of the association the subjects 

 severally assigned and report the results of their investigation to the 

 annual meetings of the association, accompanied by such recom- 

 mendations as they may deem proper to present. 



The executive committee was authorized and advised, in fixing the 

 dates for future meetings of the association, to select either the week 

 immediately preceding or the week immediately following that chosen 

 by the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experi- 

 ment Stations. 



The officers elected for the year 1900 were : President, G. C Creel- 

 man, president of the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, Ontario; 

 vice-president, W. W. Miller, secretary of agriculture, Columbus, 

 Ohio; secretary, John Hamilton, Department of Agriculture, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. 



