THE farmers' institutes IN THE UNITED STATES. 343 



DELAWARE. 



Institute diroctor. — Wesley Webb, secretary state board of agriculture. Dover. 



Agrifiiltural education was a subject discussed at all the meetings 

 during the past season, and lectures on the home were given at most 

 of the meetings. The grange, as well as the experiment station, is 

 actively cooperating in the institute movement, and as a result the 

 interest in the work is reported as becoming more intense and deep- 

 ening very rapidly. 



Seventy sessions of institutes were held during the past year, with 

 a total attendance of 1),210 and at a cost of $1)00, all of which was 

 appropriated by the State, but $300 of which was accunnilated 

 money. The above amount, however, does not include the salary and 

 expenses of the director. Four members of the agricultural experi- 

 ment station statl' devoted twenty-three days' service to the institute 

 work. A farmers' day was held at the agricultural college on Jiuie 

 14. The county institutes are consulted in regard to the programmes, 

 dates, and places of the meetings. 



FLORIDA. 



Institute director. — P. H. Rolfs, director of the experiment station, Gainesville. 



During the past year there were held 56 sessions of institutes with 

 a total attendance of 5.576. The State appropriated $2,500 for 

 this work, l)ut the cost of the institutes held is reported at $2,000. 

 An apjiropriation of $7,500 has been made by the State for farmers' 

 institute work for 1910. The college of agriculture furnished 1 

 speaker and the experiment station 6 speakers, while 10 state lec- 

 turers were employed, and 23 local speakers addressed the meetings. 



GEORtSIA. 



Institute director. — A. M. Soulo. president of the agricultural college, Athens. 



Agricultural education was a topic discussed in all the institutes. 

 A new feature of the work in Georgia was the holding of joint 

 farmers' institutes and teachers' institutes in cooperation with the 

 county school commissioners. 



Fifty-six sessions of regular institutes were held the past year 

 witii an attendance of 4,480. There were also held 16 independent 

 institutes with 2,400 in attendance, 15 sessions of round-up institutes 

 at which 600 were reported, and (>0 teachers' institutes and 44 mis- 

 cellaneous meetings, with a total attendance of 0,850. All this is 

 reported to have added greatly to the general interest in agricul- 

 tural education in the rural schools. The State appropriated $2,500 

 for institutes, but the work cost $7,000, the college and station con- 

 tributing the ditf'erence in time and service of lecturers and the 

 director. The local authorities are consulted regarding the pro- 



