58 KKl'oKT <>1" OKFICK (»K KXI'KKIMENT STATIONS. 



Socuiod^ Fniiil<liii I)yt', rrciiton. N. .1. ( )r<i'iiMiziiti<)ii for Institute 

 \\'(iik Should il he a Pci'iuaiicnt Oiyaiii/.ation oi- should w«' work 

 throui^li othci- I'ariucrs' Ortji-jiui/atioiis ^ L. K. 'lal't. A<ii'icultui"al (^ol- 

 Ioi:v, Micldiiau. Accessories iu lustitutcWoik Deiiioiistiations. Judir- 

 inir Contests, Field Kxperiinents, F. II. Hankiii. I rl>aiia. 111. How 

 fai' is it Praetiealde to C'ouduet a Season's Canipaij^n in soiiui Aj;;rieul- 

 tural Inteiest' What interests may be Appropriately and Success- 

 fully .Vd\ a need, such as Roads. 1 Ionics, Reforesting, Agri(!ulturc in 

 Hi*>h Schools, or Agricultural Education? V. K. Oavvley, Fayetteville, 

 N. ^ . I low to Advertise Institute Meetings, Geo. McKeiiow. ]\radi- 

 son, \\'is. The Evening Session — How to make it Intenjsting and 

 Insti'uctive: (a) TIk^ Romance of Agriculture, C. C. James. Toronto, 

 Canada; and (h) Local Heli),AV^esle3' Wehh, Dover, Del. Some Essen- 

 tials to the Permanency of Farmers' Institutes, E. B. Voorhees, New 

 Brunswick, N. J. How the Farmers' Institutes and the Agricultural 

 Colleges may be mutually helped. Dr. James Mills, Guelph, C'anada. 

 How the National Department of Agriculture may through its Insti- 

 tute Office assist the State Institute Meetings, John Hjunilton, Wash- 

 ington. D. C. Women's Institutes, Miss Laura Rose, Guelph, Canada, 

 and Miss Agnes Smith, Hamilton, Canada. How the Institutes can 

 Bring the Most Good to Our Girls, Miss Blanche Maddock, Guelph, 

 Canada. How to Enlist the Interest of Our Boys in Agriculture, 

 Hon. John Dryden, Toronto, Canada. 



There was a discussion of problems and methods in institute work, 

 participated in l)y delegates selected from different sections of the coun- 

 tr}^; and the institute work from the standpoint of the worker was dis- 

 cussed by D. C. Anderson, Andrew Elliott, and Henry Glendinning, 

 of Ontario. 



The reports of the directors giving account of the institute work in 

 the several States all indicated that prog-ress had licen made during the 

 year, and that appreciation of the work is becoming more general as 

 the public becomes better acquainted with what is being done for the 

 benefit of agriculture through this method of instruction and with 

 what is possil)le to be accomplished. 



Expressions with regard to the quality of the work required showed 

 that the people were not satisfi(Kl with anything l)ut the best. The 

 problem now confronting the institute directors is that of securing a 

 suflicient number of capal)le instructors to meet this need. Two of the 

 State directoi's reported that they were about to introduce into their 

 system a normal school })lan for training lecturers, the instructors in 

 these schools to be selected from the forces of the agricultural college 

 and experiment station and the school to continue from one or two or 

 three weeks, as the necessities in each case seem to justif3^ 



On Thursday the members of the association and their friends were 

 given a complimentary trip to th(^ Ontario Agricultural College, at 



