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attendance of 16,679; 11 sessions of round-up institutes, with 2,000 

 in attendance, and numerous special institutes and cooperative meet- 

 ings, picnics, railroad specials, etc., with a reported combined attend- 

 ance of 31,520. There were 150 women's sessions in connection with 

 the regular institutes, or one in nearly every two-day institute held. 

 The institute work cost $20,000, which, however, does not include the 

 salary and expenses of the director. There were 69 lecturers em- 

 ployed, and 282 local speakers addressed the meetings. The agri- 

 cultural college and experiment station contributed 10 lecturers for a 

 total of 70 days. 



PORTO RICO. 



Institute director. — D. W. May, special agent in charge of the agricultural 

 experiment station, Mayaguez. 



Seven lecturers from the experiment station and 1 from the 

 agricultural college contributed a total of 45 days to institute work ; 

 9 sessions of regular institutes, with an attendance of 420, and 3 in- 

 dependent institutes, with an attendance of 1,500, were held, at a total 

 cost of $200. 



RHODE ISLAND. 



Institiite director. — J. J. Dunn, secretary State board of agriculture, Provi- 

 dence. 



There were held during the year 22 sessions of regular institutes, 

 with an attendance of 2,910, and 4 sessions of a round-up institute, 

 with 1,200 in attendance, at a total cost of $266.60. There were em- 

 ployed 16 State lecturers and 10 local speakers. Six members of the 

 agricultural college and experiment station donated a total of 7 days 

 to the work. In connection with the institutes on fruit growing 

 there were demonstrations in spraying for the San Jose scale and 

 other injurious insects. 



SOUTH CAROLINA. 



Institute director. — D. N. Barrow, professor of agriculture, Clemson College. 



No special State appropriation was made for institutes, but the 

 college of agriculture carried on the work at a cost of $1,141.68. Nine 

 State lecturei-s were employed. Four members of the college faculty, 

 and 4 members of the experiment station staff devoted SO days to the 

 work, which consisted of 265 sessions of regular institutes, with 9,000 

 in attendance, and 60 independent institutes, with an attendance of 

 5,000. At two jDoints the institute lasted a week, and regular class 

 work was given. 



SOUTH DAKOTA. 



Institute director. — A. E. Chamberlain, superintendent of institutes, Brookings. 



Soil moisture and corn and crop rotation were subjects discussed 

 at every regular institutCj of which there were 368 sessions, with an 



