The Bulletin. 

 Men's Institute Speakers and Subjects. 



COUNTY AND LOCAL OEGANIZATIONS. 



There now exists a Farmers' Institute organization, or committee, 

 in each of 95 counties of the State — in all except the counties of 

 Carteret, Dare and Wake — and in several counties such as Catawba, 

 Forsyth, Iredell, Mecklenburg and Rowan, where more than one in- 

 stitute has been held annually for several years, there have also been 

 organized local institute committees. The number of committees 

 now organized is 105 for men and 54 for women. 



Up to this time no effort has been made to extend the scope and 

 duties of the county organization beyond the selecting of a com- 

 mittee, constituted of one active farmer from each to^vnship, and re- 

 quiring of it the advertising and arranging for the annual institute. 



That each township and eventually each neighborhood should main- 

 tain a Farmers' Institute organization for the purpose of creating 

 interest in and disseminating agricultural information is beyond 

 question, but in many sections there has not yet been developed suf- 

 ficient interest in this work to actuate the existing simple county 

 organizations to properly arrange for and advertise one county in- 

 stitute each year. In such cases it would be useless to attempt a 

 more complex organization for the extension of the work, but in sev- 

 eral counties or sections there now appears to be sufficient interest 

 to justify an attempt to extend the organization to the formation of 

 township or neighborhood clubs, or institutes, with more frequent 

 meetings of both the local and county organizations. In several 

 counties of the State local clubs or institutes holding meetings 

 monthly, bi-monthly or quarterly, and the county organization hold- 

 ing institutes quarterly or semi-annually, seems not too much to 

 expect in the near future, and during the coming year an attempt will 

 be made to effect such an extension of the work in several of the more 

 progressive counties. 



