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loading {igricultunil papers in the State. The county papers also 

 inclose these supplements, distri})uting them among their subscri))ers. 

 Al)out 8,000 copies of the proceedings of each institute were printed 

 and circulated in this nuunier during the past year. 



The work of arranging for institutes in the several counties is in 

 the hands of the superintendent, who cooperates with local farm clubs 

 in arranging the dates, places, and programmes, the State furnishing 

 such additional lecturers as ma}' be necessar3\ The dates, places, and 

 speakers are aimounced as soon as the programme has been prepared 

 through the State agricultuial papers as well as by means of local 



pul)li('ations. 



LOUISIANA. 



Population 1,381,625. Total number of homes 284,875. Number of farm homes 

 114,214. Per cent 40.1. Apjjroximate population in farm homes 5.54,031. 

 Director of institutes. — J. G. Lee, Commissioner of Agriculture, Baton Rouge. 



Under the constitution of 1898 the Louisiana State board of agri- 

 culture and immigration were given control and direction of all State 

 asrricultural organizations and State farmers' institutes. The board 

 organized a farmers' institute connuittee, composed of the president of 

 t\)e Louisiana State University, the director of the State experiment 

 station, and the conuuissioner of agriculture and immigration. Two 

 tiiousand dollars is annually appropriated for institute work. The 

 conuuissioner of agriculture and inmiigration is the executive officer 

 of the State committee on farmers' institutes, and has direct control of 

 the work of organizing and conducting institutes in the several dis- 

 tricts. The commissioner reports 13 persons on the State institute 

 lecture force. Fifty institutes were held last year. Forty-eight were 

 one-day and two were three-da}^, aggregating 134 sessions. The total 

 attendance was 13,245. The amount appropriated for institute pur- 

 poses was $2,000. Three thousand five hundred copies of reports of 

 institute proceedings were printed and distributed. Permanent insti- 

 tute clu])S with a president and secretary, with one vice-president from 

 each ward of the parish, constitute the local organization. The insti- 

 tute director cooperates with the local authorities in arranging dates, 

 places, and progranmies for institute meetings. The State director of 

 institutes is appointed by the governor for a period of four 3'ears, and 

 is also commissioner of agriculture and inunigration. 



MAINE. 



Population 694,460. Total numl)er of liomes 163, .344. Number nf farm homes 

 57,153. Per cent of farm homes 35. Ai)proximate i)opulation in farm iiomes 

 24.3,063. 



Director of institute.s. — A. W. Oilman, Commissioner of Agriculture, Augusta. 



In Maine under the act creating the State department of agriculture, 

 and providing for the appointment of a conuuissioner of agriculture, 

 the commissioner is required to "'hold or cause to be held two farm- 



