326 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



FLORIDA. 



Institute director. — R. W. Clothier, professor of agriculture, University of Florida, 

 Gainesville. 



The institutes have been temporarily suspended in Florida, owing 

 to the failure of the legislature to make appropriation for their sup- 

 port. This was due to a readjustment and reorganization of the 

 educational work of the State which w^as quite radical. The institute 

 w^ork in previous years was under the direction of the agricultural 

 college, but the reorganization referred to, in which the State legisla- 

 ture abolished the university, together with five other educational 

 institutions and provided for a university and a woman's college, a 

 normal school for colored students and an institution for the deaf, 

 dumb, and blind in their stead, placed all under a single State 

 board of control. This board has recently determined to remove the 

 university from Lake City to Gainesville. 



These changes in the educational management have for the time 

 prevented the university from continuing the work in institute direc- 

 tions which it has formerh' conducted. As soon as the university 

 becomes settled in its new location, the institute work will doubt- 

 less be resumed and proper appropriation for its maintenance be made 

 by the State. 



GEORGIA. 



Institute director. — H. C. White, president Agricultural College, Athens; Harvie 

 Jordan, field agent in charge of farmers' institutes, Atlanta. 



The legislature of Georgia in 1904 appropriated $2,500 to the 

 University of Georgia for farmers' institute ^^ ork and has continued 

 this appropriation each 3"ear since that date. This year the number 

 of institutes fell off from 44 to 21 and the attendance from 18,000 

 to 4,500. No report has been received explanatory of this sudden 

 change. 



There were six State speakers on the corps of lecturers, thi'ee of 

 whom were from the experiment stations. No independent .or 

 special institutes are reported, neither were w^omen's nor boys' 

 sessions held. The actual expenses for institute work for th(> year 

 were $2,500. The organization is b}^ senatorial districts and not by 

 counties. 



HAWAII. 



Institute director. — Jared G. Smith, agent in charge of agricultural experiment 

 stations, Honolulu. 



Institute work in Hawaii last year consisted of four quarterly 

 meetings, each continuing two days. These meetings were attended 

 by about 300 persons antl were conducted b}^ the oflicers of the agri- 

 cultural experiment station. 



