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FINANCIAL STATEMENT. 



FARAJERS' INSTITUTE FUND, FOR FISCAL YEAR ENDING .TUNE 30, 



1897. 



Amount of appropriatiou, $5,000. 



Salary of Superintendent ?600 00 



Traveling expenses of Superintendent 00 73 



Salary of clerk 152 ,^>0 



Per diem of lecturers 1,372 00 



Traveling expenses of lecturers 1,901 48 



Printing 31 75 



Stationery 29 50 



Office postage 166 30 



Mailing copies Institute bulletin 100 00 



Office apparatus .33 95 



Apparatus for lecturers *127 56 



Farm Home Reading Circle 117 70 



Sundry t216 53 



Total $5,000 00 



Further details regarding the work, the report of the papers and dis- 

 cussions at the State Round-up at St. Louis, as well as abstracts of many 

 other addresses, will be found in the Institute Bulletin No. 3, issued in 

 May, 1897. 1 



REPORT OF FARM HOME READING CIRCLE. 



SEASON OF 1890-7. 



President J. L. Snyder, Michigan Agricultural College: 



Dear Sir — I herewith transmit a report of the work of the Farm Home 

 Reading Circle, carried on under the direction of the State Board of 

 Agriculture, for the year ending June 30, 1897. This report is made 

 as brief as possible, and includes the principal- features of our work. 



While the Farm Home Reading Circle is but little over four and one- 

 half years old, yet we believe we can already boast of a longer period 

 of uninterrupted progress than any similar movement in the United 

 States. 



Having started out with the determination to impress our rural 

 population with the importance and value of pursuing a systematic course 

 of reading, suggesting the best books along the various branches of 

 farming and gardening, and furnishing these books to members of the 

 Farm Home Reading Circle at much below the regular retail price, the 

 management of the Farm Home Reading Circle has held rigidly to this 

 policy. 



♦ Includes fine stereopticon and outfit. 



tlncludes packing, boxps. cartage, and freight on Institute bulletins sent to County Secretaries 

 for two years, 1896 and 1897. 



