370 EEPOKT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



sessions, with an attendance of 10,960. One railroad instruction 

 train of 7 cars with 15 lecturers covered 5,467 miles, made 154 stops, 

 and was attended by 350,000 people. Special institutes of different 

 kinds were held to the number of 115. They report a total attend- 

 ance of 22,031. In addition, the institute force gave 108 days' 

 instruction at teachers' institutes, high schools, normal and common 

 schools, at which 14,250 people were in attendance. An expert was 

 employed for 180 days in the capacity of itinerant instructor and 

 field demonstrator. 



HAWAII. 



Institute director: Wm. Weinrich, secretary and treasurer of the farmers' institutes, 

 Honolulu. 



No farmers' institutes were held. 



IDAHO. 



Institute director: W. H. Olin, superintendent of extension, Boise. 



Movable schools were added to the institute work during the year. 

 Seven were for men and consisted of 73 sessions with an attendance 

 -of 675, while 3 were for women consisting of 16 sessions wdth 120 in 

 attendance. There were held 41 regular institutes consisting of 72 

 sessions with, a total of 8,991 persons in attendance. A railroad 

 instruction train of 7 cars with 7 lecturers made 52 stops and reached 

 8,011 people. Four special institutes were also held at which 850 

 persons were reported in attendance. One itinerant expert was 

 employed during the entire year. The total cost of the institute 

 was $2,911.10. Thirty-nine State lecturers were employed, of whom 

 10 were from the college faculty and station staff. 



ILLINOIS. 



Institute director: O. D. Center, superintendent of farmers' institutes, Springfield. 



The State appropriated ,$23,650 for institute purposes and the 

 county board of supervisors appropiiated an additional $5,475, 

 making a total of $29,650 available for this work during the year and 

 practically all of it was used. A new feature of the institute work 

 was the estabhshment of movable schools or short courses of a week's 

 duration, 5 of which were conducted for men, 5 for women, and 5 for 

 young people, mth an aggregate attendance of 653. The regular 

 institutes numbered 102, composed of 802 sessions with an attendance 

 of 164,731. A portion of each institute was devoted to the women 

 and to the young people. In addition, 4 special institutes consisting 

 of 36 sessions were also held, with an attendance reported at 11,500. 

 Three railroad instruction trains comp<^)sed of from 2 to 4 cars each 

 with from 4 to 6 lecturers were run for a total of 15 days, making 8 

 stops each day and reaching 60,000 people. Institutes were held in 

 every county in the State. 



