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and experiment .sbition force. These college and station men gave 120 

 da3's of time, and were present at all of the institutes that were held. 

 Four thousand dolhirs was appropriated by the State for institute work, 

 made payable to the board of agriculture. There are no permanent 

 local organizations for institute purposes in thi' several counties, the 

 director arranging each year for the institutes by correspondence from 

 the oflice with a local committee, which he appoints. The director 

 fixes the dates and places and consults with the local conunittec 

 respecting the i)rogrammes. Meetings are advertised by publishing 

 from two to four weeks in advance the dates, places, and names of the 

 speakers in the local press. A traveling institute was organized two 

 years ago and was in successful operation during the past season. A 

 railwa}' car is fitted up with illustrative material and etiuipped witli a 

 lecture force furnished by the college of agriculture and mechanic arts 

 of the universit}" and by the experiment station. Numerous districts 

 were visited in this manner and very satisfactory institutes were held, 

 the lecturers having the ad\ antage of the material with which the car 

 was supplied for use in demonstration. The railroads of the State 

 cordially cooperated in the movement and the meetings were unusuall}' 

 well attended, as appears from a comparison with the attendance of 

 the previous 3'ear in which 10,(»()0 persons were reported to have been 

 present at institutes, this 3'ear the number was increased to 25,400. 

 No reports of the institutes are published. 



MONTANA. 



Population 243,.32n. Total numl)or of homes 55,889. Nnml^er of farm homes 

 i;5,!t09. Per cent of farm liomes 24.9. Approximate population in farm liomes 

 60,.')S8. 



Director of institutes. — F. B. Linfield, Acting Secretary of the Board of Farmers' 

 Institutes, Bozenian. 



The board of administration of farmers' institutes in Montana is 

 compo.scd of the governor of the State, the director of the Montana 

 Experiment Station, and the i)residents of the Montana Registered 

 Cattle Breeders' Association, the Montana A^'ool Growers' Associa- 

 tion, the Montana Ijive Stock Association, the Montana Horticultural 

 Society, the Montana State Board of Horticulture, the Montana Agri- 

 cultural Association, and the ^lontana Dair^'man's Association. The 

 officers of the board consist of a president and secretar}' elected by 

 the board for two years. The members of this board of admin- 

 istration are designated " Directors of Montana farmers' institutes 

 and are authorized to hold institutes for the instruction of the citizens 

 of the State in the \arious branches of agriculture, and to prescribe 

 such rules and regulations as they may deem best for organizing and 

 conducting the same." At least one institute shall ])e held in (>acli 

 countv each vcar. The directors are authorized to designate the times 



