10 



Missouri.— George B. Ellis, secretary State Board of Agriculture, Columbia. 



Montana.— F. B. Linlield, director Agricultural Experiment Station, Bozeman. 



Ne])ra.ska. — E. A. Burnett, director Agricultural Experiment Station, I>incoln. 



Nevjida. — J. E. Stubbs, director Agricultural Experiment Station, Reno 



New Hampshire.— X. J. Bachelder, secretary State Board of Agriculture, Concord. 



New Jersey.— Franklin Dye, secretary State Board of Agriculture, Trenton. 



New Mexico. — J. D. Tinsley, vice-director Agricultural Experiment Station, Mesilla 

 Park. 



New York.— Miss K. B. AUis, Office of Farmers' Institutes, FayetteviUe. 



North Carolina. — W. F. Massey, horticulturist, Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 Raleigh. 



North Dakota.— E. E. Kaufman, director Farmers' Institutes, Bismarck. 



Ohio.— W. W. Miller, secretary State Board of Agriculture, Columbus. 



Oklahoma.— J. B. Thoburn, secretary State Board of Agriculture, Guthrie. 



Oregon. — James Withycombe, director Agricultural Experiment Station, Corvallis. 



Pennsylvania. — A. L." Martin, deputy secretary of agriculture, Harrisburg. 



Porto Rico. — No institutes. 



Rhode Island.— William Williams, member State Board of Agriculture, Bristol. 



South Carolina.— J. S. Newman, superintendent of Farmers' Institutes, Clemson 

 College. 



South Dakota. — S. A. Cochran, irrigation engineer, Brookings; James H. Shepard, 

 professor of chemistry. Agricultural College, Brookings. 



Tennessee. — W. W. Ogilvie, commissioner of agriculture, Nashville. 



Texas.— J. H. Connell, editor, "Farm and Ranch," Dallas, 



Utah.— John A. Widtsoe, director Agricultural Experiment Station, Logan. 



Vermont.— George Aitken, secretary State Board of Agriculture, Woodstock. 



Virginia. — G. W. Koiner, commissioner of agriculture, Richmond; A. M. Soule, 

 director Agricultural Experiment Station. Blacksburg. 



Washington.— E. A. Bryan, president Washington Agricultural College, Pullman. 



West Virginia.— J. B. Garvin, director Farmers' Institutes, Charleston; A. D. Hop- 

 kins. Division of Entomology, Washington, D. C. 



Wisconsin. — George McKerrow, superintendent Farmers' Institutes, Madison. 



Wyoming.— B. C. Buffum, director Agricultural Experiment Station, Laramie. 



GOVERNMENT AID TO INSTITUTES. 



The United States Department of Agriculture has undertaken to assist the States in 

 their institute work. At the request of the Secretary of Agriculture, the Fifty-seventh 

 Congress provided for the appointment of a Farmers' Institute Specialist in the Office 

 of Experiment Stations of the Department, and appropriated $5,000 for meeting the 

 necessary expenses of the new office. 



The duties of this officer, as stated in the act making the appropriation, are "To 

 investigate and report upon the organization and progress of farmers' institutes in the 

 several States and Territories, and upon similar organizations in foreign countries, with 

 special suggestions of plans and methods for making such organizations more effective 

 for the dissemination of the results of the work of the Department of Agriculture and 

 the experiment stations, and of improved methods of agricultural practice." 



In anticipation of the action of Congress the United States Civil Service Commission, 

 July 23, 1902, issued a circular letter to the effect that an examination would be held 

 September 1, 1902, for the position of Farmers' Institute Specialist in the Office of 

 Experiment Stations of the Department of Agriculture, the examination to be open to 

 all citizens of the United States who comply with the requirements as set forth in the 

 forms of examination which the Commission prescribed. 



From the eligible list thus secured the Secretary of Agriculture, Hon. James Wilson, 

 under date of February 9, 1903, tendered the position to John Hamilton, of State Col- 

 lege, Pa., then secretary of agriculture of the State of Pennsylvania. Mr. Hamilton 

 accepted the position and assumed the duties of the office April 1, 1903. 



Since that date the office has collected and published the laws under which insti- 

 tutes are held in the several States and Territories; a list of names of lecturers in the 

 employ of the State directors with their post-office addresses; bulletin on Agricul- 



