400 BEPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



ALABAMA. 



Institute director. — C. A. Gary, professor of veterinary science, Auburn. 



The Alabama Polj'technic Institute appropriated all the money ex- 

 pended for farmers' institutes in the State, which amounted to $600, 

 besides giving the services of the director and 12 members of the col- 

 lege and station staff, which is equivalent to about $600 additional. 

 No local speakers were used, but two lecturers were usually sent to 

 Bach institute, which were all one-day meetings. There were, in all, 

 tl sessions, with a total attendance of 3,555. At each institute the 

 preparation for the coming of the boll weevil, tick eradication, and 

 live stock were discussed. The places, dates, and programs of the 

 institutes are arranged for by the director, who endeavors to maintain 

 an order of rotation. In addition to the institutes held by the Poly- 

 technic Institute, the State department of agriculture conducted a 

 series of meetings under an act of 1907 making an appropriation of 

 ^,000 for institute purposes. The expenditure of this sum is wholly 

 in the hands of the commissioner of agriculture. 



ALASKA. 



Institute director. — C. C. Georgeson, special agent in charge of agricultural 

 experiment station, Sitlia. 



No report was received from the agent in charge. 



AKIZONA. 



Institute director. — R. W. Clothier, professor of agriculture, Tucson. 

 With the more liberal appropriation from the State treasury over 

 twice as many sessions of regular institutes were held this year as last. 

 Besides 75 sessions of regular institutes, with an attendance of 

 3,647, the institute organization also held short coursoe at a number 

 of high schools. A four-weeks' course was held in the high school 

 of Thatcher and a two-weeks' course at the high schools of 

 Mesa and at Tempe and at two high schools in the Salt Kiver 

 Valley. A two-weeks' series of strong institutes held in the same 

 valley has placed the institute work there on a firm foundation. 

 The cooperation of the Mormon Church was again secured, and the 

 ^vork proved to be more popular than ever before. It should be 

 noted that the evening sessions of the short courses at the high 

 schools were attended almost entirely by farmers. The total attend- 

 ance at all the day sessions of the short courses held at the high 

 schools was 4,500 and the total attendance at the night sessions 1,100, 

 which, together with the 3,647 in attendance at the regular institutes, 

 makes a grand total of 9,247 for all forms of work done under the 

 institute organization. There was expended for all the above pur- 

 poses the sum of $989.93. 



