No. 6. DEPARTMENT OJ'" AGRICULTURE. "/i^ 



Raspberries, per quart;, 8 



Potatoes, per bushel, 75 



Butter, per pound, at store, 20 



Jiulter, per pound, at market, 22 



Milk, wholesale, 100 [)()unds, 115 



Milk, retail, per quart, 5 



Eggs, per dozen, 18 



Wool, short, unwashed, IG 



Wool, short, washed, 21 



Wool, medium, unwashed, 17 



Wool, medium, washed, 22 



Wool, long, unwashed, 18 



Wool, long, washed, 23 



Farm land, improved, per acre, 58 00 



Farm laud, average, per acre, 38.00 



Farm wages, by year, with board, 108 00 



Farm wages, for summer months onh', 18 00 



Farm wages, by day, with board, 92 



Farm wages, by day, without board, 1 23 



Farm wages, whole year, without board, 260 00 



Farm wages, harvest, by day, 1 39 



Household help, female, with board, per week,. 2 19 



The Legislature of 1901, recognizing the vast interests which are 

 involved in agriculture, and the importance of encouraging and fos- 

 tering the industry-, at the request and petition of farmers from every 

 county of the State, wisely passed an act increasing the appropria- 

 tion for Farmers' Institutes to fifteen thousand dollars per annum, 

 thereby enabling the Department to increase for the coming year the 

 number of meetings; also to add new and important features, such as 

 illustrating on canvas the life and habits of birds and insects, and 

 showing us which of these are our friends and which are our foes; 

 also illustrated lectures on forestry and showing its relation to the 

 water supply, soil moisture and other kindred topics of vital import- 

 ance to successful farm operations. The institute is now the far- 

 mer's school, to which he comes after the year's work upon the farm, 

 having his mind filled with problems which can only be solved by the 

 light of science as applied to agriculture. From a knowledge of 

 chemistry, botany and etymology, as applied to agriculture, the Far- 

 mers' Institute is becoming a great medium through which lessons 

 therein are reduced to practical application and carried to the far- 

 mer. 



Respectfully submitted, 



A. L. MARTIN, 

 Deputy Secretary and Director of Institutes. 



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