G()G UKroKT OK OFFICK oK KXPKRIMENT STATIONS, 



Director of iiislituti's. — J. C. Ilanly, IVesick'nt Mississippi Agricultural :iiiil Mccliaii- 

 ical Collc'j^c, Agricultural College. 



Farmors"' institute- woik in Mississippi is imdor the diroction of the 

 prosiilont of the a^riciiltiuiil and inechaiiical foHcj^c. There are no 

 laws orjiiinixin^- institutes in the Stat(> exceptinj^' that whieh makes an 

 appropriation to tlie a«i^rieultural and nieehanical coUet^e for institute 

 work. Last year 58 institutes were held, eoniposed of 122 sessions. 

 Fiftv-six were one-day niectinj^s and two were two-day meetings. Tlie 

 total attendanee was 10,000. There were 15 lecturers upon the State 

 lecture corps, 9 of whom were mcmhers of the college and experiment 

 station staffs. The college and experiment station lecturers partici- 

 ])ated in all the meetings that were held. One thousand five hundred 

 dollars was appropriated for institute work, and IS, 000 copies of insti- 

 tute reports were published and distributed among the farmers of the 

 State. 



The State director organizes the farmers in the several localities into 

 clubs, and the clubs of each count}' into a single cotinty clul), the 

 county club having charge of the local institute work. He also fixes 

 the dates and places for institutes, committing the preparation of 

 the programmes and the arrangement of speakers to the count}' insti- 

 tute club. Announcement of dates, places, and speakers is made about 

 one month before an institute meeting is held, l)y publishing the pro- 

 gramme in the county papers. The State director is appointed l)y the 

 board of trustees of the agricultural and mechanical college, and the 

 appropriation made by the State is payable to this board of trustees. 



A round-up me(»ting of institute workers was held this year at 

 which about 400 farmers from the various districts of the State were 

 present. An effort is to })e made the coming year to organize a per- 

 manent farmers'' club in each county, to have charge of the local work 

 connected with the farraers' institute meetings. 



MISSOURI. 



Population 3,106,005. Total number of homes 654,333. Numl)er of farm homes 

 282,840. Per cent of farm homes 43.2. Approximate population in farm homes 

 1,340,079. 



Direct<^)r of institutes. — George B. Ellis, Secretary State Board of Agriculture, 

 Columbia. 



The control of farmers' institutes in Missouri is by law placed in the 

 hands of the State board of agriculture, which is required to " hold 

 farmers' institutes in difl'erent parts of the State for the purpose of 

 giving instruction in agriculture." The execution of this work is 

 placed in the hands of the secretary of the board. One hundred and 

 twenty-seven institutes were held during the year, attended by 

 25,400 persons. Thirty-one lecturers were upon the State institute 

 staff, ten of whom were members of the agrieidtural college faculty 



