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proper for organ izino- and conductino- such institutes, and may employ 

 an agent or agents to perform such work in connection therewith as 

 they may deem best." 



One hundred and twenty institutes were held during the year. 

 Twenty were one-da}' institutes, 99 were two-day, and 1 three-day, 

 aggregating 560 sessions. The total niunbcr reported in attendance 

 was 55,000. Twenty-two lecturers were upon the State force, two of 

 whom were members of the agricultural college and experiment station 

 start's, who contributed four days of time. The amount appropriated 

 for institute expenses was $12,000. Sixt}' thousand copies of the 

 farmers' institute bubetin, containing the i)roceedings of the institutes, 

 wei'e pu]»lished and distributed. Tlie local expenses of the institutes 

 are provided for by the citizens of theconnnunity in which the institute 

 is held. The meetings are placed upon request of the various locali- 

 ties. Petitions are sent in to the director of institutes and, throuuh 

 these, meetings are granted in the discretion of the State director. 

 Fifteen thousand posters and 45,000 programmes of the meetings were 

 sent out from the State office last 3'ear, as well as notices of institute 

 meetings to all the papers in the section in which the meetings were 

 held. The arranging of the dates, places, aiid programmes is in the 

 hands of the institute director, and announcements of the times, places, 

 and speakers are made about one month in advance of the institute 

 season. The special topics for discussion last 3'ear were live stock and 

 dairying. The institute director is elected by the board of regents of 

 the university, nominated by the president of the university and 

 dean of the agricultural college, and recommended by the farm com- 

 mittee. He takes a place regularly on the programme as a lecturer, 

 and is in the field during the entire season in which institutes are held. 



WYOMING. 



Population 92,531. Total number of homes 20,116. Number of farm homes 

 5,9.39. Per cent of farm home.'^ 29.5. Approximate population in farm homes 

 27,296. 



Director of institutes. — Charles W. Lewis, President of the University of Wyoming, 

 Laramie. 



Farmers' institutes have not been organized in W3'oming, and there 

 is no legislation providing for their organization or support. The 

 facidty of the State University and the experiment station staff have 

 undertaken to conduct a. series of institute meetinosdurino- the comincr 

 year. 



