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women's institutes, the attendance at which is not reported. The 

 college of agriculture furnished 4 lecturers for a total of 59 days, the 

 experiment station 2 for a total of 44 days, and the institute employed 

 10 lecturers for a total of 374 days. 



NORTH DAKOTA. 



Institute director. — T. A. Hoverstad, superintendent of farmers' institutes, 

 Fargo. 



Grain growing, forage crops, cultivation, and grasses were sub- 

 jects discussed at each meeting. A copy of the institute annual is 

 given to each family attending the first session, 15,000 copies being 

 published. The State appropriated for institute work $0,000, but the 

 institute actually cost $10,417.81, the difference being made up by 

 some funds left over from previous years. There were 243 sessions 

 of regular institutes, with an attendance of 31,606 ; 4 independent in- 

 stitutes, with 12,075 in attendance; and better- farming special trains 

 consisting of 6 cars with illustrative and demonstrative material, 

 which attracted 19,200 people. The college of agriculture and the 

 experiment station contributed the services of 8 lecturers for a total 

 of 15 days at the regidar institutes and 14 lecturers for a total of 281 

 days at the special-train institute. Only three State speakers were 

 employed. 



OHIO. 



Institute director. — ^A. P. Sandles, secretary State board of agriculture, Co- 

 lumbus. 



Twenty thousand two hundred and fifty dollars of the State ap- 

 propriation of $22,000 for institutes was expended, but this does not 

 include the salary and expenses of the director. The State employed 

 36 lecturers and made use of 1,800 local speakers, while the experi- 

 ment station furnished 20 lecturers for an aggregate of 195 days. The 

 number of sessions of regular institutes was 1,620 and the attendance 

 421,040, while in addition there were 51 independent institutes, with 

 12,705 in attendance, 5 sessions of round-up institutes with 500 people, 

 and a number of orchard schools, corn schools, and dairy, fruit, and 

 com trains, the attendance at which is not recorded. 



OKLAHOMA. 



Institute director. — J. S. Murray, superintendent of farmers' institutes, 

 Guthrie. 



Twenty thousand copies of the annual institute report are printed 

 and distributed at the institutes. Boys' and girls' work and women's 

 auxiliaries were introduced this year as new work. There was ap- 

 propriated by the State as a whole $5,000 for institute work, and by 

 the counties $15,200 additional, making $20,200 for institute work 



