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needed for other purposes, and as a result held 199 sessions of regular 

 institutes last year with a total attendance of 11,049. Besides this, 

 institute picnics were held, attended by 10,000 people, some 

 demonstration work was done, and exhibits made of farm products. 



UTAH. 



Institute director. — L. A. Merrill, superintendent of agricultural extension 

 work of the college of agriculture and director of Utah state farmers' insti- 

 tutes, Salt Lake City. 



Dairying and horticulture were discussed at all regular farmers' 

 institute meetings held during the year, of W'hich there were 217 

 sessions, with a total attendance of 18,089. Five local speakers ad- 

 dressed meetings, but, aside from this assistance, the work was all 

 done by the director of institutes and the faculty of the college of 

 agriculture and the members of the experiment station staff, at a 

 cost of $2,825.11, the state appropriation being $1,500, the college 

 supplying the deficiency. 



VERMONT. 



Institute director. — O. L. Martin, commissioner of agriculture, Plainfield. 



With two state speakers and one lecturer from the experiment sta- 

 tion for only one day the commissioner of agriculture held 12 sessions 

 of regular institutes, with approximately 600 in attendance, and 

 cooperated with the college of agriculture in conducting the farmers' 

 week, at which 1G8 were registered, the total expenses being approxi- 

 mately $350. 



VIRGINIA. 



Institute director. — G. W. Koiner, commissioner of agriculture, Richmond. 



About $2,000 was used in institute work during the year, enabling 

 the holding of about one hundred and thirty days of institutes, with 

 an attendance of 25,000. A steamboat was equipped, and with it a 

 series of institutes were conducted along the Rappahannock River 

 among the truck gardeners and other agricultural people in the 

 vicinity. 



The Virginia State Farmers' Institute is an organization estab- 

 lished five years ago. It meets once each year for a three days' con- 

 ference, wath an elaborate programme, and has approximately 1,800 

 members. The proceedings of the fifth annual session, held at Rich- 

 mond, August 4, 5, and G, 1908, has been published and contains 282 

 pages. The organization is now to be incorporated. 



WASHINGTON. 



Institute director. — R. W. Thatcher, director agricultural experiment statioi!, 

 Pullman. 



The farmers' institute work is in charge of the extension depart- 

 ment of the college of agriculture, and practically all its appropria- 



