322 REPOET OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



ARKANSAS. 



Institute director. — W. G. Vincenheller, director of agricultural experiment station, 

 Fayetteville. 



Arkansas held 42 sessions of farmers' institute meetings during 

 the 3^ear, with an attendance of 7,150 persons, and at a cost of about 

 $400. The lecturers were members of the experiment station staff, 

 and received no compensation additional to their regular salaries. 



The leading subjects discussed were fruit culture, forage crops, 

 and dairjdng. There has been no recognition of the institutes by the 

 State, consequently, all that has been done has been by the agricul- 

 tural college and experiment station, with some assistance from the 

 National Department of Agriculture. All of the meetings held were 

 upon special request of the various communities, and a much larger 

 number of invitations were received than it was found possible to 

 meet. 



CALIFORNIA. 



Institute director. — E. J. Wickson, acting director, agricultural experiment station, 

 Berkeley. 



Owing to differences in local climates and leisure seasons in various 

 localities, institutes in California are held every month in the year. 

 The director, who is a university officer, is aided by one assistant super- 

 intendent of institutes and two conductors, who have charge of the 

 work in the field . 



Last year 272 sessions of institutes were held, in which 22 State 

 lecturers and 197 local speakers participated. The university and 

 experiment station contributed 10 members from their faculty and 

 staff who contributed one hundred days to institute teaching. 



A State round-up meeting continuing for 8 sessions was held at 

 Berkeley, with an attendance of 2,500 persons. This meeting has 

 been very successful in interesting the farmers of the* State in the 

 agricultural college and experiment station and in popularizing and 

 improving the institute work. 



The attendance last year at the general institutes was 22,861 and 

 the cost was $9,000, of which $6,000 was from the State appropriation 

 and $3,000 from the general fund of the University of California. A 

 new feature of the work for the year was the formal and organized 

 cooperation of the institutes with the State Teachers' Association, 

 whereby a farmers' institute section was organized in the annual 

 State Teachers' Convention. For the coming year this representa- 

 tion is to be extended to provide a section on farmers' institutes in 

 every district teachers' association. The school teachers of California 

 arc enthusiastically in favor oi the institute and are doing all that they 

 can to promote its interests. 



