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attendance of 1,000. The college of agriculture and the experiment 

 station supplied 7 lecturers, and the total cost of the institutes was 

 $6,400, paid from the treasury of the state board of agriculture. 



NORTH DAKOTA. 



Institute director. — T. A. Hoverstad. superintendent of farmers' institutes, 

 Fargo. 



The institutes held during the year cost $9,835.22, which repre- 

 sents the $6,000 annually appropriated for this work and a surplus 

 left over from the year previous. There were held 281 sessions of 

 regular institutes with an attendance of 46,538, and a number of 

 special institutes of which no record was kept. Leguminous crops 

 were discussed at all the meetings. The college of agriculture and 

 the experiment station each kept one speaker in the field all the time, 

 and 3 state speakers were employed. 



OHIO. 



Institute director. — A. P. Sandles, secretary department of agriculture, 

 Columbus. 



No lecturers were used from the faculty of the college of agricul- 

 ture nor from the staff of the experiment station, but the state lec- 

 turers numbered 52 and about 2,000 local speakers were used. Dur- 

 ing the year 4 regular institutes were held in every county in the 

 State, making in all 1,760 sessions, and the interest was so intense 

 that 400,000 people attended these meetings. There were also held 

 100 independent institutes with an attendance of 300,000, and 5 ses- 

 sions of round-up institutes with 500 in attendance. Xo record was 

 kept of the corn specials, fruit trains, corn schools, and orchard 

 schools. 



The State appropriated $22,000 for the institute Avork, all of which 

 was expended but did not include the salary and expenses of the 

 director. 



OKLAHOMA. 



Institute director. — T. M. Jeffords, conductor of institutes. Elgin. 



Corn growing was discussed at all the institutes. The college of 

 agriculture furnished 8 lecturers; there were 10 on the state force 

 and about 50 local speakers used. The total cost of the institutes 

 for the year was $4,500, which enabled the holding of 206 sessions of 

 regular in.stitutes with an attendance of 11,953, and 5 independent 

 institutes with 672 in attendance. 



OREGON. 



Institute director. — James Witliycombe, director of the experiment station, 

 Corvallis. 



The State appropriated $2,500 for the institute work, and $2,946.65 

 was expended, which included the salary and expenses of the director. 



