farmers' institutes of the united states. <573 



approved March 13, 1903. The board is coiupo.sed of the president of 

 the board of trustees of the North Dakota Airritultural Colleoc, the 

 commissioner of agriculture and lal)or, the director of the experiment 

 station, the professor of agricuUuiv and the professor of dairying of 

 the North Dakota Agricultural College, It is made the duty of the 

 board "to employ a director of farmers' institutes and such other 

 lecturers as may be deemed necessar}^; to authorize the holding of not 

 less than -40 institutes each year." 



Nineteen institutes were held last year consisting of 67 sessions. 

 Three institutes were one-day, and 1(1 were two-day. The total attend- 

 ance is reported as 2,65.5. The numljcr of speakers on the State lecture 

 force is 11, and $1,500 was appropriated for carrying on the work. 

 Four of the State speakers were meml)ers of the agricultural college 

 and experiment station stati's. Representatives of these institutes 

 were present at 6 institutes, contributing l-t days of time. The pro- 

 ceedings are pul)lished in an institute annual, of which 10,0(»0 were 

 distributed at sul)sequent institute meetings and through the mail. 

 The institute board appoints all State lecturers. An institute com- 

 mittee in each county is selected b}" the State institute board to look 

 after the advertising and make such special arrangements as are nec- 

 essary for the successful conduct of the meetings. The dates, places, 

 and programmes are all ari-anged by the State director, and notices of 

 meetings are published about four weeks in advance. The State 

 director is appointed In' the State farmers* institute board for one 

 season. A number of independent institutes were held b}^ local 

 farmers' societies wath an estimated attendance of 225. The institute 

 meetings are advertised l)y means of large posters, through the pub- 

 lication of the programmes by local newspapers, and b}^ postal-card 

 invitations sent out through the mail. The act of the legislature of 

 1903 increased the appropiiation for institute purposes to $8,000 per 

 year. 



OHIO. 



Population 4,157,545. Total numlu'r « if homes 944,433. Number of farm homes 

 280,068. Per cent of farm homes 29.7. Approximate population in farm homes 

 1,237,790. 



Director of institute.s. — AV. W. ^Miller, Secretary State Board of Agriculture, 

 Columbus. 



The farmers' institute work in Ohio is organized under the pro- 

 visions of an act passed April 26, 1890, and amended April 27, 1896. 

 Under this act whenever '• twenty or more persons, residents of an}'^ 

 county in the State, organize themselves into a farmers' institute 

 societ}', adopt a constitution and by-laws agreeable to rules and regu- 

 lations fiirnished by the State ])oard of agriculture: and when such 

 .society shall have elected proi)er othcers and performed such other 

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