416 REPORT OF OFFICE, OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



"United States Department of Agi'iculture and the general education 

 board. The sum of $5,000 shall be paid annually to the commis- 

 sioner of agriculture, the sum of $5,000 annually to the Virginia 

 College of Agriculture and Polytechnic Institute, and the sum of 

 $5,000 annually to the Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station. 

 The money allotted to the commissioner of agriculture shall b« 

 Used for farmers' institutes, the money allotted to the Virginia 

 College of Agriculture and Polytechnic Institute shall be used for 

 adult demonstration work, movable schools, etc., and the money 

 allotted to the Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station shall be 

 Used for experiment work at the local or district experiment sta- 

 tions, established or to be established, and for no other purpose, and 

 the money appropriated by the State board of education shall be 

 used for experiments and demonstrations in connection with the 

 schools of the State. During the past year $4,000 was expended 

 for institute work. Two hundred and thirty-six one-day institutes, 

 were reported as having been held with a total attendance of 22,000 

 persons. 



WASHINGTON. 



Institute director. — R. C. Ashby, superintendent of institutes, Pullman. 



Three demonstration trains were run, which made in all 28 stops 

 and were attended by 9,345 people. These trains consisted of from 

 7 to 9 coaches carrying complete equipment, consisting of live stock; 

 field, orchard, and tillage machinery; pruning tools; spraying ma- 

 chines; dairying outfits; milking machine; farm electric-light plant; 

 cement demonstration equipment ; horticultural, entomological, grain, 

 forage-crop, and grass exhibits. ' The train was furnished by the 

 railroad company, the machinery was loaned by the manufacturers, 

 and the exhibits and speakers were furnished by the agricultural 

 college. Of regular institutes there were 177 sessions, with an attend- 

 ance of 14,083; 6 independent institutes, with 1,200 in attendance; 

 and 7 sessions of grange meetings, with 545 people. The total cost 

 for the institute work was $G,900. Fifteen State lecturers were em- 

 ployed, and two or three and sometimes more local speakers made 

 addresses at each meeting. The college of agriculture furnished 5 

 lecturers for a total of 68 days, and the experiment station 9 lecturers 

 for a total of 61 days. 



WEST VIRGINIA. 



Institute director. — Charles Mclntire, superintendent farmers' institutes, 

 Charleston. 



All the institute work during the year was carried on by 21 State 

 speakers. There were 307 sessions of regular institutes, at which 

 27j398 persons attended, and one agricultural train, which added 



