344 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



gramme?, dates, and places of the meetings. There are state sena- 

 torial organizations with officers in each county. Ten members of 

 the agricultural college and two of the experiment station staff 

 lectured at these institutes. 



HAWAII. 



Institute director.— William Weinrieli. jr.. secretary and treasurer farmers' 

 iustitules. Honolulu. 



Xo report was received. 



IDAHO. 



Institute director. — E. E. Elliott, acting dean of the college and acting 

 director of the ajiriculturul experiment station. ^loseow. 



The number of sessions of institutes held the past j^ear was DO and 

 the total attendance w^as 8,500. A railroad special also made 30 points 

 at which institutes were held, with 5,590 in attendance. The subject 

 of dairying was discussed at all the meetings. The State made an 

 appropriation of $1,000 for the institute work last year, all of which 

 was used for paying traveling expenses, the other expenses being 

 met out of the general maintenance fund of the college of agricul- 

 ture, wdiich, together with the experiment station, furnished 7 

 lecturers for the meetings. 



ILLINOIS. 



Institute director. — F. H. Hall, suiierinteudent of farmers' institutes, Aurora. 



The county farmers' institutes in Illinois are semi -independent 

 organizations, but are in close touch with the state organization. 

 The law requires each county institute organization to hold at least 

 one meeting of two days' duration each year in order to receive the 

 annual state appropriation of $75, which is audited and in charge 

 of the state organization. The state organization is now going to put 

 a special man in the field whose duty it will be to assist the county 

 farmers' institute officers in every way. 



Farmers' institutes w^ere held last year in every county in the State 

 except one. There w'ere in all 659 sessions and the attendance was 

 82,855. Xine sessions of round-up institutes drew an attendance of 

 approximately 5.000. The State appropriated $15,000 for institute 

 work. Of this amount $8,500 w-as used for the expenses of the state 

 institute and $75, or so much thereof as necessary, was given to each 

 county. The superintendent and the county officers in conference 

 make all arrangements regarding the institutes. 



INDIANA. 



Institute director. — W. C. Latta, professor of agriculture, College of Agricul- 

 ture, Lafayette. 



A normal institute and a conference of institute workers at which 

 all assigned speakers ai'e required to attend is held before the opening 



