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CONNECTICUT. 



By L. A. Clinton, Storrs. 



I ha^-e done luy best to get statistics for farmers" institutes held in Connecticut 

 during the past year, with the following results: Number of meetings held. 20; 

 number of sessions, 40 ; amount of money expended, $1.000 ; lunnber of speakers 

 employed, 25. The general plan of campaign was to hold the institutes in con- 

 nection with the granges of the State. When a grange makes application for an 

 institute, the officers of either the State Pomological Society, the State Dairy- 

 men's Association, or the State board of agriculture will arrange for an institute 

 at that place. Sometimes a joint institute is held by some of these associations. 

 So far as I can discover there is no definite plan of campaign. An effort is being 

 made to put the farmers' institutes in this State on a little better basis, but 

 whether we shall succeed or not remains to be seen. 



DELAWARE. 

 By Wesley Webb, Dover. 



The work of the year in Delaware has been along lines similar to those fol- 

 lowed in the past. Number of institutes, 18; number of sessions, 40; total 

 attendance, 4.856 ; amount of money spent, .$600 : number of speakers employed, 

 S. lOleven of the 18 meetings were all-day institutes, held on consecutive days 

 (omitting Sunday), with essentially the same programme. This programme in- 

 chided practical farm topics, agricultural education with special i-eference to 

 the Delaware Agricultural College, and measures necessary to preserve the 

 native ornamental evergreens of the Slate. The institute movement is growing 

 in favor with the people and is productive of much good. 



FLORIDA. 

 By C. M. Conner, Lake City. 



Our plan of campaign was about the same as in previous years, except that in 

 advertising tlie institutes we got into direct communication with the farmers 

 and addressed them personal letters, and in that way appealed directly to them 

 and thus increased the attendance. 



Under new lines of work inaugurated I do not know that wc have anything to 

 offer that would be of interest. As most of you know^ the Institute work in 

 Florida is new. and we have to educate the people up to what the farmers" insti- 

 tute is. When that is done we will be able to branch out i)i new lines. We 

 expect to push the work further this year and to ask the legislature for more 

 money for further extension. 



During the fiscal year ended July 1. 1004, institutes were held in 19 counties 

 of the State. Eighteen of these meetings were one-day meetings, one a two-d.-iy 

 meeting. The amount of money spent, not including printing report, was .$853 ; 

 printing report, $240; number of speakers employed, 8; total attendance, by 

 actual count, 1,605. 



IDAHO. 



By H. T. French, Moscow. 



The farmers' institute west of the Rocky Mountains is a very important factor 

 in spreading information among farmers, stock men, and orchardists. 



If possible, it is of greater imitortance than in the East, where better means 

 of communicatlou and contact with one another are found than in the West. 



