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Article VIII. 



POWER OF HONORARY MEMBERS. 



Honorary member.'^ shall ln' entitled to sit in all of the sessions of the association and 

 to take part in all discussions, but shall have no vote. 



Article IX. 



This association shall have power to make l)y-laws from time to time not incon- 

 sistent with this con.stitution. 



Article X. 



EXECUTIVE committee. » 



There shall be an executive committee consisting of the president and the secretary- 

 treasurer of this association, ex officio, and three other members, to be elected annually 

 by ballot, who shall meet at the call of the president and have charge of such matters 

 of business relating to the association as shall be necessary to attend to in the interval 

 lietween the annual meetings, and it shall be their duty to report such action as they 

 may take to the next regular meeting of the association. 



Article XI. 



CHANGE IN constitution. 



This constitution shall not be changed except by a vote of two-thirds of the mem- 

 bers at a regular annual meeting held one year from the date on which the proposed 

 alteration or amendment has been first presented. 



(1) The time of meeting of this organization .shall be lixt by the association. 



(2) Order of business: 



1. Calling the roll of membership. 



2. Reading of minutes of previous meeting. 



3. Admission of new members. 



4. Reports of committees. 



5. Election of officers. 



6. Appointment of committees. 



7. Unfinished business. 



8. New business. 



9. Adjournment. 



INSTITUTES IN THE SEVERAL STATES AND TERRITORIES. 



ALABAMA. 



The farmers' institute movement in Alabama l)egan in the latter part of the decade 

 1880-1889. Each year during that period a few farmers' meetings were held by the 

 staff of the agricultural college experiment station in cooperation with the State 

 commissioner of agriculture. 



Most of these meetings were in connection with those held at that time by the 

 Farmers' Alliance. This association soon became involved in political difficulties 

 that affected its influence, in consequence of which all meetings called for farmers for 

 several years thereafter were looked upon as being ])rospective i)olitical schemes and 

 were accordingly avoided l)y the country people. 



In the year 1892, C. A. Cary, of the Alabama Polytechnic In.'^titute, began holding 

 a series of meetings in the various counties under the general direction of that insti- 

 tution. The meetings during the first year had a very small attendance, but when a 

 second was held in the same locality a larger and more interested audience was always 



