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INDIANA. 



Institute director: W. C. Latta, farmers' institute specialist, La Fayette. 



With an appropriation from the State for institute purposes of 

 $10,000 supplemented by county appropriations and large private 

 donations, the sum of $17,650 was expended during the year for this 

 work. Fifty State lecturers were employed, which included 1 1 from 

 the college faculty and station staff who devoted a total of 39 days 

 to the institutes. As the farmers' institute work in this State was 

 carried on as a part of the extension work of Purdue University, sev- 

 eral forms of the work usually grouped under institute work are not 

 here included. There were held during the year 382 regular insti- 

 tutes. These consisted of 1,267 sessions and were attended by 

 2Q_1,580 people. A normal institute and conference of workers 

 intended primarily for speakers and officers of local institute associa- 

 tions held 11 sessions and was attended by 635 persons. Institutes 

 were held in every county in the State. 



IOWA. 



Institute director: A. R. Corey, secretary of agriculture, Des Moines. 



Institutes were held in 76 out of the 99 counties in the State and 

 consisted of one institute per county, aggregating 670 sessions with 

 137,703 in attendance. The total cost was reported as $17,747.27. 



KANSAS. 



Institute director: J. H. Miller, superintendent of extension work, Manhattan. 



County institutes are organized in 102 of the 105 counties in this 

 State and an institute was held in one other. They are planning to 

 organize in every institute a woman's auxiliary with a definite mem- 

 bership, officers, and program. In all, there were held 300 regular 

 institutes consisting of 808 sessions with an attendance of 58,504. 

 There were held during the year 7 movable schools for men consisting 

 of 21 sessions with 180 registered in attendance, and 16 movable 

 schools for women consisting of 96 sessions in which 463 members 

 were registered. Addresses by the institute force were given to 236 

 special meetings with an attendance of 52,000. Two railroad instruc- 

 tion trains composed of two cars were run 2,500 miles, making 145 

 stops. Ten lecturers spoke at these meetings which were attended 

 by 8,670 persons. The subjects of dairying and pork production 

 were discussed. Thirty-six State lecturers were employed, of whom 

 31 were from the college faculty and the station staff, who contributed 

 in all 757 days to the work, and there were, besides these, over 2,000 

 local speakers. Seventeen institute lecturers also made talks at 

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

 devoting in all 315 days' service and speaking to 31,000 people. 



