ANNUAL REPORT. 267 



Institute Work in 1909. 



Taking up the record of this feature of our work where 

 it was left in the last Annual Report, it may be said that 

 Farmers' Institutes in Connecticut received their full share 

 of attention during the year 1909. As mentioned in the Sec- 

 retary's Report on page 125, the Pomological Society held 11 

 Institutes in the year, all of which were well attended and 

 productive of much good to the fruit growers and farmers of 

 the state. 



These meetings, which were for the most part all-day 

 events, held in cooperation with the local granges, were lo- 

 cated as follows: Monroe, March 9, 1909; Bloomfield, 

 March 16; Orange, March 17; Bolton, March 19; Cheshire, 

 March 24; Wilton, March 25; Danbury, March 26; Milford, 

 March 30; Morris, March 31; Thomaston, April 6, and 

 Northfield, January 21, 1910. The attendance at each Insti- 

 tute averaged nearly 100, and the interest manifested in the 

 addresses and discussions was very marked. The speakers 

 were eagerly questioned, and the desire of those present for 

 information and help on various farm and orchard topics was 

 most encouraging. 



The following program is inserted here as a sample of 

 those carried out at all the meetings, and indicates the varied 

 character and the practical results aimed at in our institute 

 work. 



Institute at Milford, March 30, 1909. 



Program. 



MORNING SESSION AT 10.30 O'CLOCK. 



ADDRESS OF WELCOME, . . Lecturer of the Grange. 

 OPENING ADDRESS, .... President C. L. Gold, 



of the Pomological Society. 

 ADDRESS, "The Seeding and Care of Grass Lands," 



Chas. E. Lyman, Middlefield. 

 ADDRESS, "Poultry Successes and Failures," 



Prof. F. H. Stoneburn, Conn. Agricultural College. 

 W. H. Card, Manchester. 



