308 HKrORT OF OFKTCK OF FXPFRTMENT STATIONS. 



Two liundrod niul (M<i:htv-iiiii(' institutes were held last year, con- 

 sisting of l,;ii)'.) sessions. All of these were two-day institutes, except- 

 ing 2, which wore one-day. The total attendance was 92,503. The 

 teaching force consisted of 21) members, and the total expense in- 

 curred Avas $19,51)8. Twenty thousand (•oi)ies of reports of the pro- 

 ceedings were printed and distributed. All of the local expenses are 

 met by the counties from their jjortion of the per cai)ita tax. The 

 dates and places for institutes are arranged by the State director, and 

 the j)rogrammes are submitted to him by local societies for approval. 

 The dates, i)laces, and speakers are announced about forty days in 

 advance of December 1, which is the beginning of the institute sea- 

 son. The institutes are advertised locally by the county societies. A 

 number of independent institutes were held during the j'ear by local 

 organizations. The average attendance at each of these is given at 

 318. A round-uji meeting was held last year consisting of four ses- 

 sions. About 500 farmers were in attendance. 



OKLAHOMA. 



A State board of agriculture, consisting of G elective members and 

 the governor, who is a member ex officio, has been created by a recent 

 act of the Territorial legislature. The members of this board are 

 elected by delegates from county institutes, which organizations are 

 provided for in the act creating the State board of agriculture. 

 Whenever not less than 15 farmers, residents in any one county, shall 

 apply to the secretary of the Territory, he is required to issue a char- 

 ter of incorporation, and the organization shall thereafter be known 

 as the coimty farmers' institute for such county. These county insti- 

 tutes are required to hold an annual meeting at the county seat, at 

 which matters pertaining to agriculture shall be discussed and one 

 delegate be elected to attend the annual meeting of the State board of 

 agriculture. These delegates at their annual meeting elect two mem- 

 bers of the State board of agriculture whose terms are for three years, 

 and the law provides that this board so elected " shall have supervi- 

 sion of the county farmers' institute system." The board elects its 

 secretary and assigns his duties, one of which is the management of 

 the farmers' institutes. The act directs that " it shall also be the duty 

 of the secretary of the board to cooperate with the faculty of the 

 agricultural and mechanical college and the staif of the agricultural 

 experiment station in the preparation of programmes for institute 

 meetings and to attend the annual meeting of each county farmers' 

 institute." The expenses of the delegates from the county institutes 

 to the annual meeting of the board of agriculture are paid by the 

 Territorial treasurer upon warrants drawn by the Territorial auditor, 

 the compensation to be at the rate of $2 per day for not more than 



