370 llEPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



THE STATE REPORTS. 



The changes that have occurred during the year in the institute 

 work of the country and its progress are noted in the brief statements 

 which follow, given under the names of the several States and Terri- 

 tories, and in the tabulated statistics which form a part of this rej^ort. 



The institute specialist desires to express his appreciation of the 

 valuable assistance which he has received from the State directors in 

 supplying him with the necessary data by which he is enabled to 

 know what is being done in each State and Territory in institute 

 affairs, and to present suggestions that may be of service in solving 

 some of the difficulties that now retard the development of the insti- 

 tute phase of industrial education. 



FARMERS' INSTITUTES IN THE SEVERAL STATES AND TERRI- 

 TORIES. 



ALABAMA. 



The farmers' institute work in Alabama is under the direction of 

 the board of trustees of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute and of the 

 agricultural experiment station. There is no State law regulating 

 or controlling the work. Last year there was appropriated by the 

 college $G00 for institute expenses. TAventy-four institutes Avere held, 

 consisting of 48 sessions, with a total attendance of 3,820. Eight 

 lecturers were emploved bj' the State director for institute service. 



The director of institutes is appointed for the period of one year 

 by the board of trustees of the Polytechnic Institute and the agri- 

 cultural experiment station. Seven members of the college and sta- 

 tion staffs participated in the institute work. There are no perma- 

 nent local institute organizations. The director arranges the pro- 

 grammes, attends to the advertising, and fixes the dates and places 

 ■for the institutes. The sum of $G00 has been appropriated for insti- 

 tute work for the season ending June 30, 1906. 



No report of institute proceedings is printed. A six to ten day 

 round-up or convention of institute workers is held annually at the 

 'College. At the convention last year there were 40 sessions dis- 

 jfributed through eight days, with 245 persons in attendance. The 

 institute meetings are not limited to any particular season, but are 

 distributed throughout the j^ear. 

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;(, ALABAMA INSTITUTES FOR COLORED PEOPLE. 



' Farmers' institutes for colored people have been organized under 

 le direction of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. The 



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expenses of the institutes are met by the localities in which they are 



