380 ItEi'UUT OF Ul-'i'lCE OF EXl'ElUMEiSJT STATION: S. 



constitution also provides i'or "a woiiiairs auxiliary lor (lie |)iir|)()se 

 of holding special or separate sessions of the institute for women." A 

 series of summer institutes designed especially for farmei's' families 

 was undertaken this year with marked success. At these sunnner 

 institutes the topic discussed was some phase of domestic science. 

 The advertising of the institute is left entirely to the local organiza- 

 tions, which for this i)urpose use postals, postal-card ])rogrammes, 

 personal letters, and the local press. Six hundred to 1,000 cojjies of 

 abstracts of the proceedings are printed and distributed each year. 



INDIAN TERRITORY. 

 Planners" institutes have not been organized in the Territory. 



IOWA. 



There is no central organization or State superintendent of tarmers' 

 institutes in Iowa, but each county is entitled to organize an institute 

 when forty or more farmers meet and elect a president, secretary, 

 treasurer, and an executive committee of not less than three outside 

 of such officers, and hold an institute meeting, remaining in session 

 not less than two daj's in each year. Upon presenting proof to the 

 county auditor of such organization and such institute having been 

 held, and an itemized statement showing the numner in Avhich the 

 money used has been expended, it is the duty of the county auditor 

 to certif}^ the statement to the auditor of the State, who upon receipt 

 of such certification is required to remit to the treasurer of the county 

 his warrant, not to exceed $75 in any one year. Last year 00 institutes 

 were held in GO out of the 99 counties in the State. The State appro- 

 priation amounted to $7,425. 



The absence of any State organization or board of control has made 

 it impossible to obtain complete data respecting the work. The sec- 

 retary of the State department of agriculture has contributed the only 

 information that it has been possible to secure. The attendance is 

 estimated at 18,000, the number of sessions at 207, and the amount 

 expended $3,811.(50. No complete report of the institute proceedings 

 is published, but some of the best papers read l)efore the local insti- 

 tutes are published in the Yearbook of Agriculture. A State round- 

 up meeting was held in Des Moines, consisting of two sessions, and 

 having an attendance of 300. During the year an organization of 

 the institute workers of the eastern counties of Iowa was effected for 

 the purpose of cooperation in securing lecturers and arranging the 

 dates and places for institute meetings. 



