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literature giving information respecting details of operation and 

 items of improvement as better methods are discovered. 



Dm'ing the past year the institute office has had prepared and 

 published bulletins entitled: "Legislation relating to farmers' 

 institutes in the United States;" "A course of study upon the prepa- 

 ration of vegetable foods for movable and correspondence schools;" 

 ''The proceedings of the fifteenth annual meeting of the American 

 association of farmers' institute workers;" also three circulars — 

 "Agricultm'al fair associations and their utilization in agricultural 

 education and improvement/' "The transportation companies as 

 factors in agricultural extension," and "List of State directors of 

 farmers' institutes and farmers' institute lecturers of the United 

 States." 



There were also published the annual report of the institute spe- 

 cialist on the work of the farmers' institute office, and a translation by 

 the institute assistant in the office of a report upon the Agricultm'e 

 of Belgium from 1885 to 1910. Three illustrated lectures are now in 

 the hands of the printer, one on Farm Homes; one on Peanut Cul- 

 ture; and another upon Farm Home Grounds — Their Planting and 

 Care. 



Cooperation with the committee on extension work of the Associa- 

 tion of American Agiicultural Colleges and Experiment Stations has 

 been continued. The institute specialist, as secretary of that com- 

 mittee, collected information showing the status and j^rogress of 

 extension work in the land-gi'ant colleges and furnished the data to 

 the committee for its annual report. He has also continued to act 

 as secretary-treasurer of the American Association of Farmers' 

 Institute Workers. As secretary he prepared the program for the 

 annual meeting, secured the speakers, and had a stenograpliic report 

 made of the proceedings and edited the material for pubUcation. 

 A course of studj^ upon economic entomology has just been completed 

 by the assistant. Dr. Stedman, who has also conducted an investiga- 

 tion into the legal status and work of the State commissioners and 

 secretaries of agriculture of the United States. 



The demand for the illustrated lectures prepared in this office has 

 been greater than can be supplied, and a much larger number could 

 be used to advantage. The work of the office could also be made 

 more directly and widely useful if appropriations sufficient to equip 

 it with the requisite force of experts and supply of apparatus could 

 be secured. The institute specialist and his assistant deliveretl 

 lectures before institute and educational assemblies in various States, 

 and have conducted the correspondence of the office. 



