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an average attendance of 1,470, and a grand total attendance for the 

 eighty institutes, of 117,550. 



The Thirty-third General Assembly enacted the following law with 

 reference to the payment of state aid to short courses in Agriculture 

 and Domestic Science: 



Section One — Short Course — State Aid. That section sixteen hundred 

 and sixty-one-a (1661-a) and sixteen hundred seventy-five (1675) of the 

 supplement to the code, 1907, be amended by adding thereto the following: 



"Whenever one hundred (100) citizens of any county in the state 

 that does not have a county or district fair, receiving the state aid as 

 above provided, or that in any way may not hold a cpunty fair, shall 

 organize what is known as a 'short course' with a president, secretary, 

 treasurer, and executive committee of not less than five members and 

 shall hold a session of four or more days at some place within the county 

 and give a program, designed to promote the science of agriculture and 

 domestic science, said 'short course' organization upon filing with the 

 auditor of state by its president, secretary and treasurer a statement 

 showing what sums it has actually paid out in value for premiums during 

 the period of the short course of that year, together with the certificate 

 of the secretary of the state board of agriculture showing that it has 

 reported according to law as provided in cases of county and district 

 agricultural societies, shall be entitled to receive from the state treasurer 

 a sum equal to forty per cent of the amount paid in premiums, but in 

 no case shall the amount so received in any county exceed two hundred 

 dollars ($200). The payment from the state treasury herein provided 

 for shall be made by warrant of the state auditor as soon as due proof 

 is made to him of the holding of said 'short course' as herein provided; 

 and there is hereby appropriated out of any money, in the state treasury 

 not otherwise appropriated, the sum necessary to pay the amount con- 

 templated in this section. 



Section Two — Appropriation for Farmers' Institute Payable to 'Short 

 Course,' — When. All counties not holding a regular farmers' institute 

 and where a short course is held, the money appropriated for such farm- 

 ers' institute as provided in section 1675 of the supplement of the code, 

 1907, shall apply and be payable to said 'short course' upon proof of 

 such organization and such 'short course' having been held, being filed 

 with the state board of agriculture by the officers of said short course." 



Under the provisions of this act two short courses were held and were 

 paid the state aid usually paid to the Farmers' Institute. Three short 

 courses drew both the institute and fair money, and one short course 

 drew the fair money only. Seven short courses were held without any 

 other assistance than what was given them by the Extension Department 

 of the Agricultural College. There was held, or reported, thirteen short 

 courses in Agriculture and Domestic Science, with a total attendance 

 for the thirteen of 48,690, or an average attendance of 3,745 each. State 

 auditor's warrants to the amount of $1,669.47 were issued to the six re- 

 ceiving state aid. The total attendance shown by the reports of the 

 eighty institutes and thirteen short courses, was 166,240 and the total 



