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AGRICUVrURIi OF MAINE. 



cultural community and has a mission to perform. In order 

 to be productive of the most good, these institutes should have 

 the co-operation and hearty support of the local communities 

 in which they are held. It is our purpose to carefully study 

 the needs of the various localities and as far as possible bring 

 to them speakers who will give instruction in the lines in which 

 it is most needed. 



Regular institutes have been held during the year as fol- 

 lows: Jan. I, Walnut Hill, and New Gloucester; Jan. 3, Mon- 

 mouth; Jan. 4, Readfield; February 9 and 10, Guilford; April 

 4 and 5, Portland; March 29, Ellsworth; Oct. 31, Lubec; Nov. 



1, Machias; Nov. 2, Columbia Falls; Nov. 3, North Ellsworth; 

 Nov. 4, North Penobscot; Nov. 5, East Dover; Nov. 7, Island 

 Falls ; Nov. 8, Blaine ; Nov. 9, Mapleton ; Nov. 10, Lincoln 

 Center; Nov. 11, Stetson; Nov. 12, Dixmont Center; Nov. 14, 

 Solon; Nov. 15, North New Portland; Nov. 16, New Vine- 

 yard; Nov. 17, Strong; Nov. 18, Phillips; Nov. 19, China; 

 Nov. 21, Riverside; Nov. 22, Poland; Nov. 23, Turner Center; 

 Nov. 25, Bryants Pond; Nov. 26, Norway; Nov. 28, Canton; 

 Nov. 29, Parsonsfield; Nov. 30, Saco; Dec. i, Harrison; Dec. 



2, White Rock. 



Special dairy institutes in connection with the Maine Dairy- 

 men's Association have also been held as follows : Oct. 24, 

 Cornish; Oct. 25, South Waterf ord ; Oct. 26, West Minot; 

 Oct. 27, Bowdoin ; Oct. 28, Hartland ; Oct. 29, East Sanger- 

 ville; Oct. 31, Brewer; Nov. i, New Sweden; Nov. 2, Houl- 

 ton; Nov. 3, Machias; Nov. 4, Monroe; Nov. 17, North Cas- 

 tine; Nov. 18, South Warren; Nov. 19, Portland; Nov. 21, 

 Damariscotta ; Nov. 23, Farmington. 



In addition to the above, speakers have been furnished by 

 the Department for several of the Pomona and subordinate 

 granges when they have desired to have agricultural questions 

 discussed. 



The speakers from out of the State who have been upon the 

 institute force are as follows: Lowell Roudebush, New Rich- 

 mond, Ohio ; Edward Van Alstyne, Kinderhook, N. Y. ; Forest 

 Henry, Dover, Minn. ; Prof. J. W. Sanborn, Gilmanton, N. H. ; 

 S. C. Thompson, Dairy Division, U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture, Washington, D. C. ; and H. O. Daniels, Middletown, 

 Conn. 



