406 EEPOBT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



experiment-station staff devoted a total of 103 days to the work, and 

 more than 1,600 local persons addressed the meetings. 



KENTUCKY. 

 Institute director. — M. C. Rankin, commissioner of agriculture, Frankfort. 



Better farming, increased yield, and live stock were discussed at 

 each institute, at least one of which was held in every county and con- 

 sisted in the aggregate of about 47G sessions with an attendance of 

 18,467. Besides these meetings there were 8 sessions of a State insti- 

 tute with an average of 250 at each session. Ten State lecturers were 

 employed, a number of local speakers used, and 5 lecturers from the 

 staff of the experiment station contributed considerable time to the 

 work, which was carried on at a cost of $9,016.97. 



LOUISIANA, 



Institute director. — diaries Scliuler, commissioner of agriculture, Baton 

 Rouge; W. R. Dodson, director of the agricultural experiment station, Baton 

 Rouge. 



While no farmers' institutes were carried on under the State depart- 

 ment of agriculture, and no regularly organized farmers' institute 

 work recognized as such was conducted by the college of agriculture 

 or the experiment station, nevertheless there was considerable work 

 done by the director of the experiment station and the members of 

 the agricultural college and experiment-station staffs that should 

 properly be classed as institute work. Five members of the college 

 of agriculture and the experiment station devoted in all a total of 

 148 days in which addresses or demonstrations were given to 148 

 miscellaneous farmers' meetings, at which an aggregate attendance of 

 20,530 were reported. The services of two women were secured to 

 give addresses on domestic science and school improvement. 



MAINK 



Institute director. — ^A. W. Oilman, commissioner of agriculture, Augusta. 



More demonstration work is being introduced into the institutes 

 than heretofore. The places at which institutes will be held are de- 

 termined by a local agent, and the date and program of the meeting 

 are arranged by the commissioner of agriculture. The law requires 

 two institutes to be held in each county. Two thousand three hun- 

 dred dollars was expended in holding 107 sessions of regular insti- 

 tutes, with an attendance of 14,831, and four independent institutes 

 at which 327 attended. Six members of the college of aginculture 

 spent a total of 10 days in institute work, while the State employed 

 12 speakers and 25 local. 



