farmers' institutes and extension work. 367 



STATE REPORTS. 



Numerous items of interest in the reports of the State du-ectors are 

 incapable of tabulation or are peculiar to a particular State, and at 

 the same time are important to a complete record and understanding 

 of the progress of the institute work as it develops each year. In 

 order that the great body of institute workers may be familiar with 

 this progress, the principal points are incorporated in the following 

 accounts under the respective names of the States and Territories: 



ALABAMA. 



Institute director: C. A. Cary, professor of veterinary science, Auburn. 

 Tliirteen hundred dollars was expended during the year for farmers' 

 institutes in the State, which is an increase of over 100 per cent from 

 the previous year. If .to this amount we add the services of the 

 director and the members of the college faculty and station staff 

 whose time was contributed by the Alabama Polytechnic Institute 

 to this work, the institutes cost about S600 more than was actually 

 expended. No local speakers were used, but from two to four State 

 lecturers were sent to each institute, of which there were 28 of the 

 one-day meetings with a total of 48 sessions and an attendance of 

 3,681. In addition to the above there was a round-up institute, 

 partaking of the nature of a summer school, which lasted 4 days, 

 during which time 24 sessions were held, with a total attendance of 

 830. The director arranges the places, dates, and programs of the 

 meetings. The boll weevil was a subject for discussion at all the 

 meetings. The State makes an annual appropriation of several 

 thousand dollars to the department of agriculture and industries 

 expressly for farmers' institutes, but the matter is in the hands of 

 the commissioner, who has made no report concerning this work. 



ALASKA. 



Institute director: C. C. Georgeson, special agent in charge of the agricultural 

 experiment station, Sitka. - 



No report was received. 



ARIZONA. 



Institute director: R. W. riothier, professor of agriculture, Tucson. 

 An important feature of the farmers' institute work in Arizona is 

 the short courses it holds in the high schools in various portions of 

 the State, thereby reaching the young people as well as the farmers 

 themselves. Two lecturers from the experiment station thus held 

 in four liigh schools a total of 43 days of these courses, with an attend- 

 ance of 3,950. There were held in all 51 regular institutes, comprismg 

 95 sessions, with an attendance of 6,779. No State lecturers were 

 employed except the 6 members of the college faculty and station 



