farmers' institutes in the united states. 391 



institutes is also actiii<i: director of the Afontana Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station and pi-ofessor of agi'ononiy, animal- husbandry, and 

 dairying in the JNlonlana State College of Agriculture and Mechanic 

 Arts. 



NEBRASKA. 



Farmers" institutes in Nebraska are held under the general direc- 

 tion of the industrial college of the Univ^ersity of Nebraska and the 

 agricultural experiment station. The university employs a super- 

 intendent of farmers' institutes, who is also the director of the exi)eri- 

 ment station. There is also employed an assistant superintendent 

 of institutes, who has charge of the field work. One hundred and 

 fifty institutes were held last year, consisting of 480 sessions. Eighty- 

 eight institutes were one-day, 56 were two-day, and G were three-day. 

 The total attendance was 07,241. Institutes were held in (uS counties. 

 Twenty-nine lecturers were upon the institute teaching force. Eight- 

 een of these were members of the agricultural college and experiment 

 station staffs. Six thousand dollars was appropriated for meeting 

 the expenses of the work. No report of the proceedings is published. 

 The dates, places, and ])rogrammes for the institutes are arranged by 

 the State director. The local county organizations consist of a presi- 

 dent, secretary, and an executive committee, who are intrusted with 

 the duties of securing meeting rooms and providing for the payment 

 of the local expenses of the institute. The State lecturers are 

 ai)i)()inted by authority of the regents of the university, and are 

 assigned to the several localities by the superintendent of institutes. 

 Institutes are advertised through the local papers, by the means of 

 posters, and by the distribution of progranmies through the mail. A 

 train with cars fitted up for the purpose, called "the seed-corn 

 sj>ecial," was equipped with materials and a lecture force by the 

 institute director, and through the courtesy of the railroad com- 

 panies was taken over the principal railroads of the State. Forty- 

 one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six persons by this means 

 were reached. The annual rouiul-up of the agricultural organiza- 

 tions of the State was held at the university January 1(> to 21, 1905. 

 Thirty-one sessions were held, with a total attendance of 2,000. 



NEVADA. 



There is no law in this State providing for the organization or 

 coudiict of institutes. The work has hitherto been in ehai-ge of the 

 State University and the agricultural expei-iment station, the director 

 of institutes being jjresideni of the university and also dii-ector of the 

 ex|)eriment station. Last year there were held 10 institutes, coni- 

 jiosed of 20 sessions, with an attendance of V)('ut. llw entire expense 

 was $37'J. The State lecture force consists of lecturers, 5 of whom 



