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(3) That the Secretary of the Department of Agriculture, thru the officer of the 

 Division of Farmers' Institutes, be reciuesteil to annually collect . ( uiupilc. and publish 

 statistics of the institute work conducted by the several States, and distril)Ute such 

 documents in the same manner as like publications are now distributed by that 

 Department. 



(4) That a bill be prepared to be presented to the Congress of the United States 

 providing for an appropriation to the several States for farmers' institute purposes, 

 to 1)0 ai)portionc(l pro rata, according tt) the number of farms (farmers) in each State. 



(5) That this ImH shall provide that the moneys so appropriated shall be used 

 exclusively in the payment of the salaries and expenses of competent instriictors, and 

 that each State receiving the benefits of this act shall appropriate out of the State 

 treasury for institute purposes at least as much as is received from the National Gov- 

 ernment. 



f- (()) That each State before receiving the benefits of this act shall appoint a State 

 director of institutes, who shall have charge of the expenditure of these funds, and who 

 shall report annually on the 30th day of June to the auditor-general of his State, and 

 also to the Secr(>tary of the l)ej)artment of Agriculture at Washington, giving an 

 itemized account of the expenditures for institute purposes for the preceding year, 

 according tt) a form to be provided Ijy the Secretary of the Department of Agriculture 

 at Washington. 



Respectfully submitted. 



John Hamilton, 

 W. ('. Latta, 

 V. W. Taylou, 



Caminitlee. 



The committee had agreed upon all of the items contained in the report except the 

 portion embraced by section 0. which one of the members felt should be modified so 

 as to permit the States to place the supervision with the agricultural college and 

 experiment station if desired. 



The association adjourned to meet in the State of New York. No formal rej)orl of 

 the Omaha meeting seems ever to have 1)een published. 



ROCHESTER MEETING. 



The fourth annual meeting of the association was held at Rochester, N. Y., i\Iaich 29 

 and 30, 1899, and was well attended. 



At this meeting the name of the association was changed from the American Associa- 

 tion of Farmers' Institute Managers to that of the American Association of Farmers' 

 Institute Workers. The officers elected for the ensuing year wxre: President, F. E. 

 Dawley, Fayetteville, N. Y.; vice-president, Kenyon L. Butterfield, Agricultural 

 College, Mich.; secretary-treasurer, F. W. Taylor, Lincoln, Nebr.; executive commit- 

 tee, F. W. Hodson, Guelph, Ontario, W. C. Latta, Lafayette, Ind., and H. W. Colling- 

 wood. New York. The proceedings of the meeting were published in the Transactions 

 of the New York Agricultural Society and Bureau of Farmers' Institutes for 1898. 



DELEVAN MEETING. 



The fifth annual meeting of the association was held at Delevan, Wis., during the 

 evening of March 15, 1900. In the absence of the president, F. E. Dawley, of New 

 York, the chair was occupied l)y Clinton D. Smith, of Michigan. 



The nominating committee presented the names of the following gentlemen for offi- 

 cers for the ensuing year: President, C. D. Smith, Lansing, Mich.; vice-president, 

 G. A. Willmarth, Seneca, 111., and secretary-treasurer, G. C. Creelman, Toronto, 

 Canada. For the executive committee: W.'C. Latta, Lafayette, Ind.; S. A. Cochrane, 

 Brookings, S. Dak., and W. L. Amoss, College Park, Md. The fixing of the time and 

 place for the next meeting was left to the executive committee. A brief account giv- 

 ing the minutes of this meeting was published in the annual pul)lication of the Wis- 

 consin Farmers' Institute for the year 1900. 



