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Also five one-day meetings, as follows: 



Total Average per 



Place. Sessions. attendance. session. 



Portland 3 780 2G0 



Nortli Plans 2 225 113 



Boidin<; 3 885 295 



Clarlisville :". 600 200 



Lake Odessa 3 570 190 



Total 3,060 1,058 



Average attendance per session for these five meetings 212 



Average attendance per session at 68 Institutes, 1895-G 223 



The extra cost to the State of the five one-day meetings was $27.00, or approxi- 

 mately $5.50 per meeting. 



SYNOPSIS OF INSTITUTE WORK IN SANILAC COUNTY, 1896 AND 1897. 



1896. 

 Held a two days' meeting at Sanilac Center, average attendance per session 200. 



1897. 



Held a three days' "County Round-up" at Crosswell, average per session 318. 

 Also five one-day meetings as follows: 



Total Average per 



Place. Sessions. attendance. session. 



Brown Citv 3 775 255 



Sanilac Center 2 225 108 



Argyle 2 300 150 



Minden City 2 275 137 



Port Sanilac 3 425 102 



Total. 2,000 812 



Average per session for the five one-day meetings 162 



The extra cost to the State was $37.00, or approximately $7.50 per meeting. 



The work was eminently satisfactory to the people in these counties, 

 so far as we could ascertain. 



Our own opinion is that we have solved the problem; that a combi- 

 nation plan of holding five or six one-day meetings in a county, and fol- 

 lowing later with a longer county meeting, is almost ideal. We believe 

 that with |1,000 extra appropriation per year we can hold at least 100 

 one-day meetings each winter, and thus nearly double our efficiency. 



