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held. Meetings are advertised by circulars, personal letters, and 

 through the agency of the various pulpits of the surrounding country. 

 The formation of local organizations to meet once each month is 

 encouraged. The lecture service is performed chiefly by the members 

 of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. Twelve one-day 

 meetings were held last year, consisting of twelve sessions, attended 

 by 300 persons. 



AI.ASKA. 



Farmers' institutes have not yet been organized in Alaska, but 

 Prof. C. C. Georgeson, the special agent in charge of the experiment 

 station at Sitka, as he visits the various districts takes advantage of 

 the opportunity to give advice as to more advanced methods that 

 might be employed in improving the agriculture of the several 

 localities. 



ABIZONA. 



The legislative assembly of Arizona in 1903 passed an act provid- 

 ing for " the establishment of farmers' institutes and short courses of 

 instruction throughout the Territory." For this purpose the sum of 

 $2,700 was appropriated. The law places the control of the institutes 

 in the hands of the board of regents of the university. The institute 

 work for the past year consisted of one week of lectures at Thatcher 

 Academy, Thatcher, Ariz. There was an average attendance of 

 about 50 persons at each meeting. 



ABKANSAS. 



Arkansas has no farmers' institute legislation. An attemj^t was 

 made at the session of the legislature of 1901 to secure an apropria- 

 tion for institute purposes. The bill failed by a very narrow margin, 

 but the effort to secure an appropriation Avill be renewed. 



Thirty one-day institutes, composed of 60 sessions, however, were 

 held under the auspices of the Universitj^ of Arkansas and the 

 Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station. The total attendance 

 was 7,650 and the entire cost about $100. There were four lecturers 

 upon the State force, all of whom were contrilnited by the university 

 and by the experiment station. These lecturers gave thirty-six days 

 of time to the institute work. The dates, places, and progranunes 

 of the institutes were arranged by the director of the agricultural 

 experiment station, in cooperation with citizens of the localities in 

 which the institutes were held. Two hundred and fifty dollars has 

 been appropriated for institute work for the year ended June 30, 

 1906. This sum is outside of any services that may be rendered by 

 the State director. 



