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New York, $20,000; Minnesota, $18,000; Illi- 

 nois, $17,150; Ohio, $16,747; Wisconsin, 

 $12,000; Indiana, $10,000. In these states 

 practically every county has annually from one 

 to five institutes. 



Institutes in no two states are managed in the 

 same way, but the system has fitted itself to 

 local notions and perhaps to local needs. A 

 rough division may be made — those states 

 which have some form of central control and 

 those which do not have. Even among states 

 having a central management are found all 

 degrees of centralization; Wisconsin and Ohio 

 may be taken as the extremes. In Wisconsin 

 the director of institutes, who is an employee of 

 the university, has practically complete charge 

 of the institutes. He assigns the places where 

 , - the meetings are to be held, basing his decision 

 upon the location of former institutes in the 

 ? * various counties, upon the eagerness which the 

 neighborhoods seem to manifest toward securing 

 the institute, etc. He arranges the programme 

 for each meeting, suiting the topics and speakers 

 to local ne.eds, prepares advertising materials, 

 and sets the dates of the meeting. A local cor- 

 respondent looks after a proper hall for meeting, 

 distributes the advertising posters, and bears a 



