374 REPOET OF OFFICE OP EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



regular institutes numbered 218 and consisted of 602 sessions, with 

 an attendance of 114,746. Seven railroad instruction trains, carrying 

 from 4 to 7 cars each, were run about 4,000 miles and made 196 stops, 

 reaching 23,315 people. The holding of farm-crop exliibits in connec- 

 tion with the institute was encouraged. The request was quite 

 generally responded to, and great interest was manifested in the 



exliibits. 



MISSISSIPPI. 



Institute director: W. L. Hutchinson, director of farmers' institutes, Agricultural 

 College. 



Institutes were held in every county in the State. There were 205 

 regular institutes, with a total of 347 sessions and an attendance of 

 46,830. Nine sessions of a round-up institute were held, at which the 

 attendance was 1,800. The institutes cooperated with the boys' corn 

 clubs and the girls' domestic science clubs, which reached some 15,000 

 members. The total cost was $10,000. 



MISSOURI. 



Institute director: T. C. Wilson, secretary State board of agriculture, Columbia. 



Twenty-one State lecturers were employed in institute work during 

 the year, of which 15 were from the college faculty and station staff. 

 The regular institutes numbered 170 and consisted of 384 sessions, at 

 which a total of 64,077 were in attendance. Six lecturers also 

 accompanied 4 railroad instruction trains of from 4 to 6 cars each. 

 These covered 2,777 miles of track, during which 112 stops were made. 

 The total attendance was fully 100,000. The cost of the institute 

 work was about $7,500. 



MONTANA. 



Institute director: F. S. Cooley, superintendent of Montana farmers' institutes, 

 Bozeman. 



Institutes were held in each county in the State. Fourteen State 

 lecturers were engaged in the work, 7 of whom were from the college 

 faculty and station staff, and they devoted in all 228 days to this work. 

 The total cost of all institute work was $10,000. There were 85 

 regular institutes held, with a total of 147 sessions and 11,973 in 

 attendance, besides 22 sessions of special institutes, with 5,200 people 

 present. The institute lecturers also devoted 91 days to addressing 

 4,000 people in the high scliools. A railroad instruction train of 9 

 cars, covering 1,800 miles, made 37 stops, carried 19 lecturers, and was 

 attended by 28,900 people. 



NEBRASKA. 



Institute director: C. W. Pugsley, superintendent of farmers' institutes, Lincoln. 



Tlie institutes for the year had at their disposal $15,484.80. 

 Twenty-one lecturers were employed, of whom 14 were from the 



