The Bulletin. 



Volume 27. North Carolina State Board of Agriculture. Number 10. 



Entered at the Raleigh Post-office as second-class mail matter. 



The Bulletin is published monthly by the State Board of Agriculture. 



RALEIGH, OCTOBER, 1906. 



CONTENTS OF THIS BULLETIN. 



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Rkport of Farmers' Institute Work for 1906 4 



( (I ) Women's Institutes 4 



(?>) County or Local Organizations G 



(c) Chairmen of County and Local Farmers' Institute Committees. ... 7 



(d) Women's Local Organizations 10 



(e) Chairmen of County and Local Women's Institute Committees. ... 10 

 if) Farmers' Institutes held in 190G, and State Speakers Attending. . . 11 



{(/) Farmers' Institute Speakers and Subjects 14 



(70 Women's Institutes held in 190G, and State Speakers Attending. . . 15 



(/) Women's Institute Speakers and Subjects 15 



ij ) Attendance, lOCG 16 



(/,•) Farmers' Institutes held and attendance, 1898, 19(13. 1904, 1905 



and 19U6 17 



(0 Suggestions for Future Work 21 



By Tait Butler, Director. 



Farmers' Institute Addresses, 1906 23 



(«) Peanut Culture. By T. E. Bro)rne 23 



(h) Crop Rotation. By Tait Butler 27 



(c) Problems in Stock-raising. By A. L. French 30 



id) The Silo for the Stockman and Small Dairyman. By J. Fnui/diii 



Davis 34 



(e) The Silo. By A. L. French 36 



if) Conmiercial Apple Culture. Bi/ F. V. Reiiner 38 



Women's Institute Addresses, 1906 41 



(fl) Literature in the Farm Home. By Mit<s \iola Boddie 41 



(?>) Home-making and Home Conveniences. By Miss H. Mae Card . ... 43 



(e) Farm Dairying. By J. C. Kendall 45 



