THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF FARMERS' INSTITUTE 



WORKERS. 



OFFICERS. 



President, 

 B. W. KiLGORE, of North Carolina. 



Vice-President, 

 E. P]. Kaufman, of North Dakota. 



Secretari/- Treasurrr, 

 G. C. Creelman, of Toronto, Canada. 



Executive Committee, 

 Geo. McKerrow, of Wisconsin. H. G. Easterly, of Illinois. 



J. C. Hardy, of Mississippi. 



Ex-officio: The President and the SErRETARY-TREAsxTRER. 

 EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING. 



The eighth annual meeting of tlie American Association of Farmers' 

 Institute AVorkers was held in the Parliament Buildings, Toronto, Can- 

 ada, June 23-26, 1903. Seventeen of the States of the Union and four 

 of the Provinces of the Dominion of Canada were represented b}- their 

 institute officials. 



The association was welcomed to Canada by the Hon. G. W. Ross, 

 premier of Ontario, who spoke of the remarkable progress which 

 agriculture had made in recent years, both in the United States and 

 in the Dominion of Canada, and of the f riendl}^ competition that exists 

 between the two countries. 



The president, W. C. Latta, in his annual address, reviewed the 

 sco])e and growing importance of the farmers' institute work, dealing 

 particularly with the means of making it more effective for good. 

 Hefci-ring to the training of the institute worker, he said that this 

 should be special and "should include a boyhood spent on the farm, 

 a common and high school education, a thorough technical training at 

 an agricultural college, and, after graduation, several years of experi- 

 ence in some line of practical agriculture." The (jualitications of the 

 workers and the orjrani/ation of farmers' institut(\s were discu.s.sed at 

 length. 



The ])rogranmie included the following papers, mo.st of which were 

 (juitc fre(^ly discussed: Training for Institute Work; Prime Qualifica- 

 tions; Should the ^^'<)^1^('I• li:i\»' Special 'i'raining? How may it be 



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