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GEORGIA. 



The farm(>rs' institute movement in Georgia began in 18.)9, at whicli time the Atlanta 

 Semi-^Veekly Journal made an appropriation of $750 t(j hold a series of farmers' insti- 

 tutes under the management of the agricultural editor of that paper. Fifty institutes 

 were held that year. This appropriation, however, was not continued, and the work 

 was suspended until 1903, when it was taken up by the University of Georgia. In that 

 year the trustees of the State university made an appropriation of $1,000 for farmers' 

 institute purposes. A State director was appointed and instructed to hold one farm- 

 ers' institute meeting in each senatorial district in the State. Harvie Jordan, of Mon- 

 ticello, was selected for this position. During that year he held 44 institutes, having 

 an attendance of 8,250 farmers. The expenses of the lecturers, office expenses, and 

 publication of bulletins of information were all provided for and paid out of the .$1,000 

 appropriated . 



In 1904 the general assembly of Georgia made a direct appropriation for farmers' 

 institutes amounting to $2,500. The trustees of the State University continued the 

 appropriation of $1,000, making available for institute purposes for that year $3,500. 



The institutes are held, one in each senatorial district, under the rotation system of 

 changing to different cou.nties in each district each year. The total attendance for 

 1904 was about 22,000, and from 4 to 6 lecturers were present at each institute. 

 A women's session presided over by a lady lecturer has been made a part of every 

 institute and is proving a popular movement, attracting the wives and daughters of 

 farmers to these agricultural meetings. 



The institute work has been placed by the board of regents under a board of con- 

 trol consisting of the chancellor of the State university, president of the State college 

 of agriculture, and the director of farmers' institutes. 



The dates, places, and programs for the institutes are arranged by tlie State director, 

 and the meetings are usually advertised at least two^peeks in advance by means of 

 the county press. In 1904 14 lecturers were upon the State force, 8 of whom were rep- 

 resentatives of the faculty of the agricultural college and of the experiment station 

 staff. 



HAWAII. 



Societies for the promotion of agriculture have been in existence in Hawaii for 

 almost half a century. An effort was made in 1898 to form an organization on the plan 

 of the farmers' institute, bui for lack of public interest the movement failed. Each 

 year thereafter up until 1902 similar efforts were made with like results. On the 25th 

 of January, 1902, thru the efforts of the local Federal agricultural experiment station, 

 a meeting was held at Oahu for the purpose of organizing a permanent society to 

 encourage and help diversify agriculture in the Territory and for the founding of per- 

 manent homes thruout the country. It was further the purpose of the organization to 

 have the society become the head of a movement in the Territc)ry to give aid to all the 

 farming districts of the islands in every possible way and to encourage the promotion 

 of local organizations for the study of local conditions and problems. 



An organization was effected and the following offices were created and tilled by the 

 following persons: President, Jared G. Smith; vice-president, T. F. Sedgwick, and 

 secretary-treasurer, D. L. Van Dine. 



The president was empowered to appoint all committees necessary to further the 

 work of the institute, to act in the organization and work of branch or local institutes, 

 to make arrangements for the regular meetings of the institute, to appoint committees 

 on the nomination of officers, to have charge of the work of getting up the programs 

 of the meetings, and to be a member, ex officio, of all such committees. The regular 

 meeting was to be called once in three months, the date and place of meeting to be 

 decided by the president. It was further decided that at all such meetings a paper 



