352 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



The exjxM'iment station sii|)j)lii'(l 4 lectiiriTs and the State '2,, while 

 usually '1 local speakers were obtained at each meeting. There were 

 in all 79 sessions of regular institutes with an attendance of 10,930. 

 and 2 demonstration train institutes with a total of 40,730 people in 

 attendance. The demonstration trains were reported to have been 

 reniarkal)ly successful in point of interest and attendance. They 

 were really traveling schools of agriculture, consisting of 4 coaches 

 filled with demonstration material from the departments of agron- 

 omy, horticulture, animal husbandi'v. dairying, entomology, and 

 poultry. 



PENNSYLVANIA. 



Institute director. — A. L. Martin, deputy secretary of agriculture, Harrisl)urg. 



All the state institutes last year discussed horticulture, poultry, 

 dairving, and the betterment of countrv home conditions. The mov- 

 able institute school work was made more perfect. AAliile no regular 

 women's institutes were held, a session for women was held at each 

 of the 172 two-day institutes which constituted the majority of the 

 institutes, for only 24 one-day and 7 three-day institutes were held. 

 In all there were 982 sessions of regular institutes, and the attend- 

 ance was 15G.f)52. There were also 10 independent institutes with 

 29,160 in attendance, and 9 sessions of round-up institutes with an 

 attendance of 1,980. The college of agriculture and the experiment 

 station helped in the work by sending in all 9 lecturers. The total 

 cost of the institute work during the year was $20,000. all appro- 

 priated by the State. The places at which institutes are to be held 

 and the programmes are arranged l)y the local committee, while the 

 state director arranges the dates. 



PORTO RICO. 



Institute director. — D. W. May, special agent in charge of Porto Rico Experi- 

 ment Station, Mayaguez. 



There is no special appropriation for institute work in Porto Rico, 

 but the director of the agricultural experiment station and 6 members 

 of his staff spent ten days in institute work the past year, holding 

 12 sessions with a total attendance of 700, and at an expense of $400. 

 which was divided equally between the experiment station and some 

 planters. A planters' picnic was held, which 350 f)eople attended, 

 but it was largely social. 



RHODE ISLAND. 



Institute director. — J. J. Dunn, secretary state board of agriculture. 

 Providence. 



During the past year there were held 12 sessions of regular in- 

 stitutes with an attendance of 1,400, and also 6 lectures on horti- 

 culture in cooperation with the college of agriculture, at which there 

 were 1.000 in attendance. The regular institutes cost $187.29, and the 

 horticultural lectures cost the college $150 and the state board $150. 



