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interests, and when a special industry or crop has developed in any 

 section of the State to an extent sufficient to warrant the holding of 

 a special institute for its study, the Department will lend its aid 

 by sending lecturers to as many ineetings as its facilities will permit. 



SUGGESTIONS EEGAKDING FUTURE INSTITUTE WORK. 



Farmers' Institutes having now been held in practically every 

 county in the State for two years, it is time the farmers, and 

 especially the local committees, in several counties began to take more 

 interest in the annual institute, or these institutes ought to be discon- 

 tinued after another trial. Unless the farmers of any county or sec- 

 tion take an active, personal interest in the institute it can do but 

 little good, and if something worth while cannot be accomplished the 

 institutes should be discontinued as a matter of policy and right. 

 During the past year much more general interest has been manifested 

 than ever before, but in too many places the farmers still seem to look 

 upon the institutes as belonging not to them but to the Department of 

 Agriculture. They take no personal or proprietory interest in it. 

 This spirit will certainly not result in building up the best in- 

 stitute. County and township farmers' institute organizations or 

 clubs should be formed, arranged and kept up in every county solely 

 by the farmers themselves of the respective localities, and the re- 

 sources of the State Department of Agriculture should be used for 

 aiding in advertising the annual institutes and supplying part of the 

 lecturers. 



The day and date for holding the institute must necessarily be 

 fixed early. Three months before the time contemplated for holding 

 the institute the State Director will send out a schedule of dates for 

 the series of institutes to be held in a certain section of the State. 

 If the local committees will decide promptly whether the date is satis- 

 factory and at once notify the State Director a complete schedule can 

 be arranged early. The local committee should not, except for very 

 good reasons, insist on any exact day or date for its institute. 



All institutes cannot be held at the exact time to suit every locality 

 or individual. The most suitable time for holding institutes is from 

 July 20th to September 1st, but all the work cannot be done by the 

 small State force in that time, and the next most satisfactory time, 

 December and January," must be utilized to a limited extent. And 

 even after this extension of the time it is necessary that several in- 

 stitute parties of lecturers be out at one time and that the institutes 

 be held in circuits so as to save time and money in traveling. 



If the local committee replies promptly slight changes are always 

 possible, but after the schedule is once fixed it cannot be changed, and 

 therefore the local committee should be vigilant and exert every effort 

 to prevent the selection of the institute date for other meetings. The 

 local committee can do this, but the State Director cannot. 



