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CALIFORNIA. 



By E. J. WicKSox, Berkeley. 



The num1)er of institute meetings held in California during the past year was 110. 

 At these inectingswe enii)loyed 25 speakers, and the work for the year was carried 

 on at a cost of $8,9:^4. Our work has l)ecn pretty much the same as in previous 

 years, our chief aim being to reach each locality at its time of greatest leisure. This 

 year we have ])articuiarly tried to call the attention of those in attendance at our 

 ineetings to the advantages tfi he derived from reading and from correspondence 

 courses. 



CONNECTICUT. 

 By J. (t. Sciiwink, Jr., Meriden. 



[For the Dnirymen's Association.] 



I beg to submit the following report for the year ending November 1, 1905, on 

 behalf of the Connecticut Dairymen's Association, an organization created to advance 

 the dairy anil i-elated interests of the State. 



We have held during the year 21 meetings, as follows: Annual meeting of five 

 sessions; 13 institutes, 9 of which were in two sessions and 4 of one session; 7 field 

 meetings, with mornings devoted to inspection of crops and herds and afternoons to 

 lecture in same. 



The amount of money spent for institute work was §800. We have employed 74 

 speakers. 



Our general plan of campaign is to cooperate with members of the association who 

 are also members of granges, farmers' clubs, etc. The local grange or club furnishes 

 the hall and refreshments for institute force and the association the programme 

 and speakers. Much good has resulted from these meetings and avast improvement 

 has taken ])lace throughout the State in the methods and systems of caring for our 

 flocks and herds. 



New lines of work to be inaugurated are the pushing out into sections where there 

 a e no granges or farmers' clubs and further develop the dairy interests of the State. 



The average attendance at each meeting was 150; total attendance, 3,300. 



By II. C. C. Miles, Milford. 

 [For the Pomological Society.] 



For the year ending November 1, 1905, there were held 9 institutes, 1 State fruit 

 growers' meeting, and 2 suimner field days. The total average attendance at all 

 these meetings was 2,275 persons. 



The total cost of the institutes was $185 and of the other meetings $365. In addi- 

 tion the distril)ution of reports and other printed matter will l)ring the total cost of 

 our work up to nearly 81,000. Fifteen speakers are on our institute force. 



In our State there is no concerted plan of conducting institute work.. The Pomo- 

 logical Society, the Dairymen's Association, and the Board of Agriculture each 

 hiTld institutes and carry on the work as one feature of their work; therefore the 

 comliined reports of these organizations show actually what Connecticut has done 

 in the line of institute work. 



So far the institutes have been held ujion the request of local granges and farmers' 

 clubs, and the local arrangements are made by these granges and clubs, the adver- 

 tising, selection of speakers, and conduct of the institute being carried out by the 

 State organization. The only expense asked of the local people is the expense of the 

 hall, all other expenses being met brthe State society. Interest in institute work is 

 on the increase in our State, and the demand for institutes is larger each year than 

 we can suj)plv with the funds at command. 



l'\)r tlie cominy: year the legislature has given an extra $500 to the Pomological 

 Society for the purpose of carrying on institute work, and with the work now well 

 jilanned in a'lvance, we anticipate more and better work will lie accomplished in the 

 line of carrying the benefits of the institute to the farmers and farmers' families in 

 our State. 



