farmers' institutes of the united states. 679 



TEXAS. 



Population 3,048,710. Total iiuihIh'I' of homes 589,291. Number of farm homes 

 341,889. Per cent of farm homes 58. Approximate poi)ulatioii in farm homes 

 1,768,25K 



Din'ctorof institute.'^. — R. L. P)ennett, Agriiultnral and Mechanical College, College 

 Station. 



The leo'i.slatiirc at its last scs.sion made an appropriation for the 

 salary of a siiporiiitendont of fanners'' institutes. The board of 

 directors of the college has also set aside out of its general funds an 

 amount sufficient to pay the traveling expenses of the superintendent. 

 Until the present year the fanners'' institutes were held luider an 

 organization known as the Texas Fanners' Institutes. The expenses 

 were met In' an agricultural paper that paid the salary of a director 

 of institutes and such other expenses as were involved in carrying on 

 the work. Sixty-fonr institutes were held during the year, made up 

 of 180 sessions. Five thousand three hundred and seventy-six persons 

 were in attendance and the total cost was i!^2,l(M». 



Local institutes have been organized in man}'^ of the comities of the 

 State. The director, however, with but few exceptions, arranges the 

 dates, places, and progrannnes for institute meetings. All of the local 

 expenses are met by the citizens of the conununity in which the insti- 

 tutes are held, including the entertainment of the State lecturers. No 

 report of proceedings is published. 



There has })een organized in this State the Farmers' Boys Progress- 

 ive League, intended to reach the boys and girls out upon the farms, 

 and to assist and interest them in the higher forms of agricultural life 

 and practice. Any boy or girl l)etween the ages of 1-t and 20, living on 

 the farms or ranches of the southwest, can l>ecome a member and will 

 be entitled to certain privileges which the constitution of the league 

 provides. For the present they are engaged in cultivating crops, the 

 seeds of which were furnished l)y the Texas Farmers' Congress. A 

 report of their work is to be made to the county farmers' institute 

 and prizes are offered for products that are specially meritorious. 



UTAH. 



Population 276,749. Total number of homes .56,19<). Number of farm homes 

 19,529. Per rent of farm homes 34.8. Approximate population in farm homes 

 9(5,308. 



Director of institutes. — John A. Widtsoe, Director Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion, Logan. 



Farmers' institutes in Ftah are by law under the direction of the 

 trustees of the agricultural college, who are "authorized and recjuired 

 to hold institutes," There nmst l)e held at least one institute in each 

 count}^ during each school year, at such times and such places as the 



