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During the year a circular entitled " Farmers' Institutes for Young 

 People" was prepared by the institute specialist and his assistant; 

 the list of institute directors and lecturers was revised; a bulletin 

 entitled " College Extension in Agriculture " was compiled and 

 edited; an illustrated lecture upon wheat culture was published 

 and another upon country homes has been prepared and is ready for 

 the printer. A circular on Progress in Agricultural Education Ex^ 

 tension was prepared and published and also the Annual Report on, 

 Farmers' Institutes in the United States. A course of lectures on 

 the preparation of vegetable foods for use by movable schools of 

 agriculture is in course of preparation, as is also a similar course in 

 economic entomology. There are, likewise, a number of farmers* 

 institute lectures illustrated by lantern slides being prepared similar 

 to those already published. A very complete index, for use in the 

 classification and registration of lantern-slide illustrations, was com^ 

 pleted by the assistant institute specialist, who has also made carcl 

 reference records of articles in foreign publications referring to 

 farmers' institutes and agricultural extension work. 



An investigation was conducted into the condition of county agri-^ 

 cultural fair associations in the United States; another to secure ex- 

 pressions of opinion by the local managers of farmers' institutes 

 concerning the condition of farmers' institutes in the various coun- 

 ties; and another into the status of college extension work in agri- 

 culture as conducted by the agricultural colleges and experiment sta- 

 tions in the several States. A further investigation has been made 

 into the service rendered by railroad instruction trains during the 

 year with a view to suggesting improvements in that service. 



The institute specialist took part in the program of exercises of the 

 Graduate School of Agriculture at Ames, Iowa, and he and hia 

 assistant have assisted in various other meetings held in the interest 

 of agricultural extension throughout the country. 



There has been in addition the usual correspondence with institute 

 and extension workers and others making request for information, 

 the filling of applications for illustrated lectures and agricultural 

 literature, besides conducting the more general correspondence. 



STATE REPORTS. 



Numerous items of interest in the report of the State directors are 

 incapable of tabulation or are peculiar to a particular State, and at 

 the same time are important to a complete record and understanding 

 of the progress of the institute work as it develops each year. In 

 order that the great body of institute workers may be familiar with 

 this progress, the principal points are incorporated in the following 

 accounts under the respective names of the States and Territories ; 



