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each year, in a few years there will be available a valuable and con- 

 cise librarv of information on the agriculture of the State. 



The state appropriation of $T,r>00 was expended for institute work, 

 including the salary and expenses of the director. There were held 

 126 sessions of regular institutes with an attendance of 10.831. and 

 52 lectures in high schools to 9,185 pupils and friends, besides a 

 dairy train with 1,000 in attendance. The college of agriculture and 

 the experiment station furnished 14 lecturers, while 8 state lecturers 

 and local speakers were used. Dry-land farming was discussed 

 at nearly all meetings, and dry-farming demonstrations are being 

 introduced, as well as movable schools of home making and high- 

 school lecture courses. 



NEBRASKA. 



Institute director. — Val Keyser. superintendent of farmers' institutes, 

 College of Agriculture, Lincoln. 



A conference of local institute managers was held at one of the 

 meetings of organized agriculture, at which questions pertaining to 

 methods of conducting institutes were discussed. During tlie past 

 year 500 sessions of regular institutes were held with a total attend- 

 ance of 86,623, and two institute schools in agriculture and domestic 

 science with 530, besides 6 special institutes, the attendance at which 

 was not reported, and organized agriculture, which takes the place 

 of a round-up institute, the attendance of which was also not re- 

 ported. Five boys' and girls' sessions were held, and women's aux- 

 iliaries were held in connection with nearlv all regular institutes. 

 The institutes cost $14,795.84. of which amount the State appropri- 

 ated $10,000, the university $652.98, and counties and local institutes 

 $4,142.86. 



NEVADA. 



Institute director. — J. K. Stubbs, president of the university of Nevada, and 

 director of the experiment station, Keno. 



No farmers' institutes were held, 



NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



Institute, director. — N. .1. Bachelder, secretary state board of agriculture, 

 Concord. 



Twenty-four sessions of regular institutes with an attendance of 

 1,800 and 3 round-up sessions with 500 in attoudance were held dur- 

 ing the past year. There were also .several Held meetings with an 

 attendance of 4.500. The college of agriculture ])rovided 6 lecturers, 

 while 6 state lecturers and 12 local speakers were employed. The 

 State appropriated $1,200 for institute work, but only half of this 

 amount was expended. 



