402 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



COLORADO. 



Institute director.- -C. H. Hinman, director of farmers" institutes, Fort 

 Collins. 



Boys' and girls' agricultural clubs have just been inaugurated as a 

 part of the institute work, and 96 sessions were held, with an attend- 

 ance of 3,740. The regular institutes consisted of 165 sessions, at 

 which 30,560 were in attendance. A railroad potato special institute 

 train traveled 1,700 miles, making 31 stops, and was visited by 4,850 

 persons. In addition, there was held one five-day housekeepers' short 

 course, with an enrollment of 215, and one six-day farmers' short 

 course, with an enrollment of 115. No local speakers addressed the 

 institutes. The annual appropriation of $5,000 for this work was 

 practically all expended. 



CONNECTICUT. 



Institute director. — I. C. Fanton, secretary State board of agriculture, West- 

 port. 



With no special appropriation for institute work, the several State 



agricultural associations collectively succeeded in holding institutes 



in every county in the State, consisting of a total of 82 sessions. The 



secretary of the State board of agriculture reports : 



We have what we call the advisory board of institute work consisting of the 

 secretaries of the different agricultural associations of the State with a secre- 

 tary of the board of agriculture as chairman. This board meets and arranges 

 the meetings so that dates and speakers will not conflict. An appropriation 

 was made to each association to use as it sees fit, but no appropriation specially 

 for institutes was made. In my opinion, we need less talk and more demonstra- 

 tion work. I would like to see a demonstration farm in every county in the 

 State. 



DELAWARE. 



Institute director. — Wesley Webb, secretary of the board of agriculture, 

 Dover. 



Of the 83 sessions of regular institutes with a total attendance of 

 10,680, it should be noted that 39 sessions with an attendance of 4,850 

 were women's institutes. Thus, the women's institutes in this State 

 were practically equal in number and in attendance to those for men 

 and were reported as successful. The State made an appropriation 

 of $600 for institute work, but the State board of agriculture has 

 supplemented this fund by an appropriation from its own funds to 

 the amount of $577.50, thus bringing the total expense for institute 

 work up to $1,177.50. Three lecturers from the experiment station 

 contributed 18 days' service, the remainder of the work being done by 

 15 State speakers and 9 local. 



