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Institute Work in 1910. 



In the furtherance of its eckicational work for the fruit 

 growers and farmers of the state, and supplementing the 

 good results of its annual winter meeting, the Pomological 

 Society has carried on each year a campaign of one-day in- 

 stitutes in the towns throughout the state. For several 

 years practically all the Farmers' Institute work in the 

 state was carried on by the Pomological Society, the Dairy- 

 men's Association and the State Board of Agriculture, and 

 without very much concerted action. More recently other 

 agricultural organizations of the state have taken up the 

 work, and for the past two or three years an "Advisory 

 Board of Institute Work" has been formed by five of the 

 six state organizations engaged in holding institutes, re- 

 sulting in more or less successful cooperation in the work. 



As a result of these changes more joint institutes have 

 been held, with programs of a mixed character, and a less 

 number of purely Pomological institutes. However, dur- 

 ing the institute season of 1910, following the annual meet- 

 ing, our Society conducted 10 institutes, distributed over 

 the state as follow^s : At New Hartford, February 10 ; Mil- 

 ford, February 15; Lyme, February 24; Hebron, February 

 25; Wolcott, February 28; Chaplin, March 4; Cheshire, 

 March 11; Monroe, March 15; Westfield, March 18: Dur- 

 ham, March 22. 



This was a very successful series of meetings. All were 

 well attended and productive of much good to the fruit 

 interests of Connecticut. In addition to the above list, the 

 Society supplied a large number of speakers on fruit topics 

 for institutes held by the other state societies and for local 

 meetings of granges. 



There is an increasing demand each year for this class 

 of educational work, and the sending of a single speaker 

 to address grange meetings is quite largely taking the place 

 of the all-dav Farmers' Institute. The Societv is looked to 



