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12, respectively. There were 8 in Massachusetts, 7 in Minnesota, 

 and 5 in Utah. Three States have 4, 2 have 3, 10 have 2, and 16 

 have 1. 



The States receiving the largest appropriations are Iowa and New 

 York, $50,000 each; Indiana, $49,200; :Minnesota, $42,000; Ohio and 

 Wisconsin, $40,000 each; Kansas, $35,000; Georgia, $30,000; Massa- 

 chusetts, $20,000; Illinois, $19,900; and Nebraska, $17,500. Ten 

 States gave from $10,000 to $16,000 for extension work, 8 from $5,000 

 to $10,000, 6 from $2,000 to $4,500, and 1 State gave $1,900 and 

 another $600. 



When it is remembered that only six years ago there were scarcely 

 a half dozen institutions in the entire country having organized 

 systems of extension work in agriculture, the present advanced posi- 

 tion that the work occupies in the general system of agricultural 

 education is the more remarkable. Appreciation of the importance 

 and extent of the new field of work of the colleges and experiment 

 stations is now general. There are needed for its full development 

 proper methods for imparting the information, a supply of expert 

 teachers and advisers to meet and instruct the people, and sufficient 

 funds to defray the expense involved. 



AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF FARMERS' INSTITUTE WORKERS. 



The American Association of Farmers' Institute Workers held its 

 sixteenth annual meeting at Columbus, Ohio, November 13 and 14, 

 1911. Forty States, three of the Provinces of Canada, and the Dis- 

 trict of Columbia were represented by accredited delegates. 



The importance of this association is in the fact that it represented 

 an attendance upon institute instruction during the year of about 

 4,000,000 people, 3,600,000 of whom were in the United States; that 

 it is virtually responsible for the expenditure of about a half million 

 dollars annually in disseminating agricultural information among 

 rural people, and that it employs a teaching force during the institute 

 season numbering 1,100 skilled lecturers besides a much larger number 

 of local speakers who present papers before the institutes and par- 

 ticipate in the discussions. 



The program for the meeting, outside of the reports of the standing 

 committees, provided for the discussion of four groups of topics, 

 assigning a full half day or evening session to each group. There 

 was a gen,eral session at which five questions that had been assigned 

 to as many speakers for opening papers were discussed, each followed 

 by a discussion led by a' second speaker and then thrown open to the 

 convention for three to five minute remarks. 



The standing committee reports were upon institute organization 

 and methods; institute lecturers; cooperation with other educational 

 agencies; movable schools of agriculture; boys' and girls' institutes; 



