FARMERS' INSTITUTES 



At a meeting of the State Board of Agriculture held November 20, 1876, the 

 committee ou Institutes made the following report, which was accepted and 

 adopted : 



Your committee recommend the holding of Farmers' Institutes during the 

 coming winter as follows : 



Clrecnville, January 16th and 17th. 



Traverse City, January 18th and 19th. 



Ypsilanti, January 33d and 24th. 



Hillsdale, January 25th and 26th. 



Owosso, January 29th and 30th. 



Lansing, January 31st and February 1st. 



Professors and other members of the College Faculty will take part in the 

 above Institutes as follows : 



Greenville, Professors Fairchild, Garfield, and Cook. 



Traverse City, Secretary Baird, Professors Kedzie and Carpenter. 



Ypsilanti, Professor Gulley, President Abbot, and Professor Beal. 



Hillsdale, Professor Beal, President Abbot, and Professor lugersoll. 



Owosso, Professors Cook, Gulley, and Fairchild. 



Lansing, Professors Kedzie, President Abbot, and Professor Ingcrsoll. 



The report recommended also that the Secretary be requested to attend all 

 the Institutes. 



With regard to time, the Institutes were all held as above with the excej^tiou 

 of the cue at Traverse City, which, for local reasons, was held one day earlier. 



As far as practicable, the delegations from the College attended these Insti- 

 tutes in accordance with the recommendation of the Board. Professors Gulley 

 and Carpenter did not attend the Institutes. Secretary Baird and Professor 

 Ingersoll took part with the other members of the delegation at Ypsilanti, and 

 Prof. Beal took the place assigned to Prof. Carpeuter at Traverse City. On 

 account of sickness in his family, Prof. Fairchild was unable to attend the 

 Institute at Greenville. He took part, however, in the Institute at Owosso, and 

 Secretary Baird supplied his place at Greenville. 



The Institutes were, generally speaking, well attended and a good degree of 

 interest manifested, and the universal expression of those in attendance was 

 that the exercises were exceedingly profitable. At Greenville, Ypsilanti, Hills- 

 dale, and Owosso, there was a very large attendance, the halls in which the 

 meetings were held being filled to tlieir utmost capacity. 



Some of the papers read at the Institutes, though not destitute of merit, we 

 have not thought best to publish in this report, while some that are published, 



