400 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXI'ERIMENT STATIONS. 



of whom vrere members of tlie agricultural collep:e faculties and ex- 

 periment station staffs. The amount of money expended was $5,000. 

 The api>ropriation for the comino: yeiw is $5,500. A State round-up 

 institute was held in Roanoke, continuing through G sessions, with an 

 average attendance of 150. 



WASHINGTON. 



The law of the State of AVashington, in (Jefining the purpose of 

 the Washington Agricultural College and School of Science, declares 

 that " one of the objects of the State college shall be to hold farmers' 

 institutes at such times and places and under such regulations as the 

 board of regents may determine." An act of the legislature of 1903 

 requires " that at least one institute shall be held in each county of 

 the State in each year." Forty-six institutes were held last year. 

 Seventeen were one-day, 26 were two-day, and 3 were three-day. The 

 total number of sessions was 150, and the attendance is given at 

 7,282. The amount approjDriated for institute purposes by the State 

 was $2,500. Fifteen speakers are upon the State institute force, 9 

 of whom are from the faculty of the agricultural college and the staff 

 of the experiment station. The}^ contributed one hundred and fifty- 

 six days. The president of the college is the superintendent of farm- 

 ers' institutes, but the dean of agriculture is the field agent and has 

 direct control of the execution of the work. No regular report of the 

 institute proceedings is published, but an institute bulletin is annually 

 prepared and distributed for information. County institute organ- 

 izations have been established throughout the State, which are in- 

 trusted with the duty of nuiking local arrangements for institute 



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WEST VIBGINIA. 



The law of West Virginia places the control of the farmers' insti- 

 tutes in the hands of the State board of agriculture. Under this act 

 the board is required to " promote and encourage as far as practicable 

 the holding of farmers' institutes, the organization of agricultural 

 and horticultural societies and other associations in the interest of 

 agriculture in the several counties of the State." It is directed to 

 '' hold farmers' institutes for the instruction of the farmers of the 

 State in the various branches of agriculture. Such institutes shall be 

 held at such times and places in each year as the said board may 

 direct. The said board shall make such orders and regulations as it 

 may deem proper for organizing and conducting such institutes, and 

 may employ an agent or agents to perform such work in connection 

 therewith as they may deem best." The course of instruction in the 

 institutes shall be so " arranged as to present to those in attendance 



