380 EEPOKT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



week of 40 sessions had 425 listeners and a forestry field meeting had 

 175 in attendance. The 50 regular institutes consisted of 83 sessions 

 and had 7,660 persons in attendance. Five membcis of the college 

 faculty and station staff devoted in all 16 days to institute work, and 

 7 others were employed. In all, the cost was $3,000. 



VIRGINIA. 



Institute director: J. J. Owen, director of farmers' institutes, Richmond. 



• There were conducted during the year 55 regular institutes, each 

 composed of 2 sessions, with a total attendance of 6,000. A feature of 

 the institute work was the conducting of railroad instruction trains. 

 There were 7 of these trains of 4 cars each, and they covered in all 

 1,800 miles, during which they made 140 stops. * There were 3 lec- 

 turers on each train, and the attendance averaged about 75 at each 

 place. The movable-school phase of the institute work was under the 

 control of the Virginia College of Agriculture and Polytechnic Insti- 

 tute. Eight of their staff conducted 16 of these movable schools, each 

 lasting 3 days, and having in all a registered attendance of' 6,500. 

 About $15,000 was available for institute work during the year. 



WASHINGTON. 



Institute director: Robert C. Ashby, superintendent of farmers' institutes, Pullman. 



An itinerant expert was employed nearly a year in giving demon- 

 strations and in personally advising individual farmers. Seven thou- 

 sand dollars was expended in institute work, most of which was done 

 by the college faculty and station staff, 9 of whom together con- 

 tributed 250 days to the work. Only one other State lecturer was 

 employed and only 3 local speakers addressed audiences. There were 

 held 34 regular institutes, consisting of 102 sessions, with 5,578 persons 

 in attendance and 33 special institutes with 4,700 in attendance. A 

 special feature of the work was the conducting of 7 railroad instruction 

 trains, each composed of 9 cars. These trains carried from 5 to 9 

 lecturers, covered 2,300 miles, making 153 stops, and reached 42,658 

 people. 



WEST VIRGINIA. 



Institute director: J. M. Millan, secretary State board of agriculture, Charleston. 



The movable-school phase of the institute work, as well as most of 

 the railroad instruction-train work, was conducted by the college of 

 agriculture and hence was not reported as an institute in this State's 

 activity. There were employed 24 State lecturers, none of whom 

 were from the college or station. There were 88 regular institutes 

 held, consisting of 401 sessions, with a total attendance of 26,100. 

 There were 2 railroad instruction trains of 3 cars each, with 6 lecturei-s, 

 who addressed in all 2,010 people in the 10 places at which stops were 

 made. The total cost was reported as $8,000. 



