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large amount of work can be accomplished, particularly if this amount 

 is supplemented by the support which the National Government is 

 giving in its propaganda of diversified farming in southern agriculture. 



UTAH. 



Institute director. — P. A. Yoder, director agricultural experiment station, Logan. 



By act of the legislature institutes are required to be held in each 

 county in Utah each year. For meeting the expenses of this work 

 $1,500 annually is appropriated to the trustees of the agricultural 

 college, who are charged with the carrying out of the provisions of 

 this act. Last 3'ear 45 institutes were held, made up of 73 sessions, 

 with an average attendance of 91 persons per session, or a total of 

 6,680. A special effort was made to organize the farmers in each com- 

 munity into institutes or clubs and then to effect a county organiza- 

 tion of which the local societies will be the units. Ultimately it is 

 expected to form a State organization in which the county organi- 

 zations, and through them all of the local organizations will be 

 represented. The presidents of the local societies are vice-presidents 

 of the county organizations, and from their number a president of 

 the county organizations is chosen. The general work is under the 

 control of the institute committee of the agricultural college faculty, 

 who have appointed as their executive officer in the institutes the 

 director of the agricultural experiment station. It is the aim of this 

 committee to send speakers to one or more meetings of the county 

 organizations each year, and to as many of the local organizations 

 as possible. The responsibility for advertising meetings and for 

 arranging the details of the programmes is left with the officers of the 

 county and local organizations. 



The work of the past year differs from that of previous years in that 

 the lecture work was distributed through the entire faculty of the 

 college and the staff of the experiment station. Fifteen members of 

 the college faculty participated in the institute work, contributing 

 two hundred and sixty hours, and eleven members of the station staff 

 contributed one hundred and eighty hours, or fift^^-five days of eight 

 hours each in all. The general county meetings followed those held 

 m the smaller settlements of the county as a round-up of the work 

 in that county for that year. 



VERMONT. 



Institute director. — George Aitken, secretary State board of agriculture, Wood- 

 stock. 



The board of agriculture of Vermont is required to hold one meet- 

 ing in each county annually. The purposes of the board are declared 

 to be "for the improvement of the general interests of husbandry 

 and the promotion of agricultural education throughout the State." 



