FARMERS' INSTITUTES 



At the November meeting of the State Board of Agriculture the secretary 

 reported the following applications for Institutes, as having been received and 

 placed on file, viz. : 



Bay City, Charlotte, Hint, 



Battle Creek, Dowagiac, Howell, 



Centerville, East Saginaw, Kochcster. 



These applications were referred to the committee on Institutes, who re- 

 ported as follows : 



Your committee on Farmers' Institutes present the following report on the 

 Institutes for ISTO. In the opinion of your committee it is very desirable that 

 Institutes should be held in tliose counties where they have not been held pre- 

 viously, i\ntil the different sections of the State have been visited. 



It is also desirable that the secretary when notifying those parties whose ap- 

 plication for an Institute has not been granted, that he state the reason why 

 their request lias not been complied with, and also suggest that the application 

 be renewed at some future time. 



We recommend that an Institute be held at eacli of the following places at 

 the times stated, to be attended by the respective members of the college fac- 

 ulty, and to be conducted in the same manner and upon the same conditions 

 as the Institutes of former years, viz., tlie citizens to bear ail the local ex- 

 penses and to furnish one-half of the lectures and papers: 



Bay City, Bay county, attended by Professors R. C. Carpenter, li. C. Kedzie 

 and President T. C. Abbot, February 4th and 5th. 



Flint, Genesee county, attended by Professors Ceo. T. Fairchild, W. J. Beal 

 and K. C. Carpenter, January IG and 17. 



Charlotte, Eaton county, attended by Professors W. J. Beal, Geo. T. Fair- 

 child and R. F. Kedzie, January 13 and 14. 



Howell, Livingston county, attended by Professors C. L. Ingersoll, A. J. 

 Cook and li. G. Baird, Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture, January 

 20 and 21. 



Centreville, St. Joseph county, attended by Professors A. J. Cook, C. L. In- 

 gersoll, Pres. T. C. Abbott and Mr. Cassidy, the College Gardener. 



Dowagiac, Cass county, attended by Prof. K. C. Kedzie, Secretary Baird and 

 F. A. Gulley, foreman of the Horticultural Department. 



The preference lias been given lo the above places, as no Institute has pre- 

 viously been held in these counties. 



