CONTENTS OF THIS BULLETIN. 



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Report of Farmers' Institute Work, 1909 7 



Men's Institutes 8 



Assistance received from U. S. Department of Agriculture 12 



Institute lecturers and subjects 13 



County and local men's organizations 14 



Chairmen of county and local Farmers' Institute committees 15 



Women's Institutes, 1909 19 



County and local women's organizations 22 



Chairmen of county and local Women's Institute committees 22 



Demonstration Railway Cars 25 



Orchard Spraying Demonstrations, 1909 27 



Lectures Delivered at Women's Institutes : 



Meats in the Dietary. By Mrs. W. N. Hutt 30 



The Danger of the House-fly. By Miss Josephine Scott 32 



Saving Steps. By Mrs. F. L. Stevens 33 



Sweeping and Dusting. By Mrs. W. N. Butt 36 



Sanitation. By Mrs. Sue V. Hollowell 37 



Preventable Diseases. By Dr. F. L. Stevens 39 



State Farmers' Convention (Round-up Institute) 42 



Woman's Department State Farmers' Convention 44 



Lectures : 



The Farm Mother. By Mrs. Flam 44 



Relation of Soil Types to Crop Varieties. By J. L. Burgess 46 



Soil Preservation. By E. E. Miller 49 



The Crime of Gullying. By C. L. Newman 51 



Doubling the Corn Yield. By C. R. Hudson 55 



Building Up Our Worn-out Lands by Diversified Farming, Rotation of 



Crops and Keeping Live Stock. By R. W. Scott 57 



Rotation of Crops. By N. A. Layton 60 



Commercial Fertilizers and Their Uses. By T. E. Browne 61 



The Head of the Herd. By Dr. W. O. Chrisman 64 



Improved Farm Implements. By Thomas B. Wilder 66 



Soil Improvement. By Dr. W. J. McLendon 67 



Care and Feeding of Farm Work Stock. By Dr. O. A. Roberts 69 



Advantages of North Carolina for Dairying. By J. A. Conover 72 



Starting and Building Up a Dairy Herd. By John Michels 75 



Corn Culture. By R. W. Scott 76 



Soil Improvement. By G. L. Newman 79 



Resolutions Adopted by Farmers' Convention 82 



Farmers' Platform 82 



Leaf Tobacco Sales for September, 1909 84 



