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expended for institute purposes did not equal the appropriations 

 made by $17,027.96. Failure to expend the full amount appropriated 

 was, however, confined for the most part to six States. 



AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE AND EXPERIMENT STATION AID. 



The agricultural colleges and experiment stations have continued 

 to aid the institutes by detailing members of their faculties and sta- 

 tion staffs for lecture service. Four hundred and eighty of these lec- 

 turers, representing the agricultural colleges and experiment stations 

 in 43 States, were engaged in institute work last year. Thirty-nine 

 of the States and Territories reported the days of service contributed 

 by their lecturers at 4,780. The previous year the same number of 

 States reported 459 college and station men engaged in this work, 

 and of these 34 reported the days contributed at 3,381. There is, 

 therefore, an increase of 21 men in 1910 over the previous year and 

 of 1,399 days of service. It will thus be seen that there has been a 

 considerably larger contribution of both men and time to institute 

 work in the past year by the colleges and stations than during the 

 year before. 



SPECIAL INSTITUTES. 



In addition to carrying on the work of the regular institutes the 

 States have been maintaining a number of special meetings of insti- 

 tute character. Some of these special forms of institute activity have 

 become so well established and attended as to be entitled to recogni- 

 tion as distinct features, to be reported separately. Accordingly, a 

 new form of report blank has been prepared for the coming year in 

 which space has been provided for data giving information respect- 

 ing these distinct lines of work. 



Among the various forms of institute activity that have developed 

 none are more promising than the movable schools of agriculture. 

 Schools of this character were reported by eight States. Four hun- 

 dred and twenty-three sessions were held, attended by 65,977 persons. 

 Two special-subject institutes were reported by one State, with an 

 attendance of 1,600. Five hundred and seventeen independent insti- 

 tutes were reported by 16 States, with an attendance of 157,523, and 

 twenty round-up meetings were conducted by 17 States, composed of 

 144 sessions, and attended by 43,056 persons. Fifty-six picnics and 

 harvest-home meetings were reported, with an attendance of 30,241. 

 One State held a meeting in connection with its normal school, at- 

 tended by 147 teachers. Sixty-nine field demonstrations were con- 

 "ducted, with an attendance of 22,875. Twenty-nine railroad instruc- 

 tion trains were run by 19 States, with an attendance of 189,645. 

 Four hundred and forty-four institutes for women were held in 15 

 States. The attendance is reported by only one State, which gives 



