CONTENTS OF THIS BULLETIN. 



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Report of Farmers' Institute Work, 1908 4 



(a) Men's Institutes 5 



(6) Institutes, Lecturers and Subjects 9 



(c) County and Local Men's Organizations 10 



(d) Chairmen of County and Local Farmers' Institute Committees 11 



Women's Institutes, 1908 15 



(a ) County and Local Women's Organizations 18 



(b) Chairmen of County and Local Women's Institute Committees 19 



Demonstration Railway Cars 22 



Orchard Demonstration Institutes 25 



Lectures Delivered at Women's Institutes : 



(a) Why We Should Attend the Institute. By Mrs. J. C. Bedfeam 30 



(6) The Prevention of Disease in the Home. By Mrs. W. N. Hutt 31 



(c) A Talk on Foods. By Miss Nellie W. Cobb 34 



The Farmers' State Convention — Program 39 



The Women's Department State Farmers' Convention 41 



Lectures Delivered at Women's Meeting State Farmers' Convention : 



(a) The Aims and Purposes of the Women's Branch of the Farmers' 



Institute. By Mrs. W. N. Hutt 41 



(b) Bee-keeping an Occupation for Women. By Walter L. Womble, 



Wake County 44 



(c) The Country Woman's Spending Money. By Mrs. James a. Boylin, 



Anson County 47 



(d) The Mother as a Source of Inspiration to the Child. By Mrs. 



Frank Elam, Cleveland County 49 



(e) Work Which the Women's Institutes May Do. By Miss Eula 



Dixon, Alamance County 51 



Dairying : 



(a) Movable Dairy School 56 



(b) State Dairymen's Association — Program 58 



(c) Co-operative Dairy Demonstration Work in North Carolina. 



By J. A. Conover 58 



(d) My Experience with the Dairy Demonstration Work of the United 



States and State Departments of Agriculture. By J. W. Rob- 

 inson 60 



(e) Relation of Live Stock Farming to Soil Fertility. By C. L. New- 



man 62 



(f) Management of Dairy Herd. By John Michels 66 



(g) Profitable Butter Making on the Farm. By R. L. Shiiford. 67 



(h) Marketing Milk and Cream. By William D. Saunders 69 



