340 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



WORK OF THE OFFICE. 



The work of the office of the institute specialist (hiring the year 

 has been chiefly in the direction of endeavorino; through correspond- 

 ence and personal visitation to secure the introduction of the metliods 

 for institute improvement and of other forms of extension work that 

 have been recommended in previous years. In pursuance of this 

 effort, visits were made to institute officials in the followintr States and 

 Territories : Alabama, Ariz(ma, California. Geoi'gia, Idaho, Louisiana, 

 Minnesota. Mississippi, Montana. New Mexico, Oregon, l*ennsyl- 

 vania, South Carolina, and Washington. 



An exhibit composed of statistical charts giving information re- 

 specting the farmers' institute work of the United States was pre- 

 pared for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. The office has 

 edited and published the annual report of the American Association 

 of Farmers' Institute Workers; has revised the list of Farmers' In- 

 stitute Directors and Lecturers; and has collected and published data 

 showing the condition of the farmers' institute Avork in the several 

 States and Territories for the annual report of the Office of Experi- 

 ment Stations, A circular on Farmers' Institutes for Women has 

 also been published; the manuscript copy and photographs of an illus- 

 trated lecture upon wheat culture have been sent in for publication, 

 and other lectures of similar character are in preparation. 



Statistics and other informational data have been gathered for the 

 use of the standing committee of the Association of American Agri- 

 cultural Colleges and Experiment Stations on extension work. 



STATE REPORTS. 



Numerous items of interest in the reports of the state directors are 

 incapable of tabulation or are peculiar to a particular State, and at 

 the same time are important to a complete record and understanding 

 of the progress of the institute work as it develops each year. In 

 order that the great body of institute workers may be familiar with 

 this progress, the principal points are incorporated in the following 

 accounts under the respective names of the States and Territories. 



ALABAMA. 



Institute director. — C. A. Gary, professor of veterinary science, Alabama 

 Polytecliuic Institute, Auburn. 



The State did not make a direct appropriation for institute work, 

 but the Alabama Polytechnic Institute appropriated $000 for the 

 work, besides giving the time of the director and twelve members of 

 the college and experiment station staff, which it is reported would 

 add $800 to the amount of money appropriated. " Get ready for the 

 coming of the boll weevil " was one of the subjects discussed at every 



