2 BULLETIN 83, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



by 197,848 persons; 66 "round-up" institutes in 16 States, with 

 an attendance of 122,400 persons; and 346 farmers' picnics, fairs, 

 conventions, etc., visited and addressed by farmers' institute lec- 

 turers, with an attendance of 95,209 persons. Of the movable 

 schools, 50 were for women and covered 362 days, with an attend- 

 ance of 11,502; 14 were for young people, covering 70 days and 

 having an attendance of 1,344. 



The total reported attendance at regular and special farmers' 

 institutes in 41 States was 3,900,008 as compared with an attendance 

 of 4,029,546 in 45 States reported the previous year. There was a 

 falling off in the attendance upon special institutes in 1913 of 447,730, 

 due to the fact that fewer educational trains were run than during 

 the previous year. The average attendance per train, however, 

 was larger than in 1912. In a number of States the educational 

 train seems to have served its purpose as an advertising agency and 

 is being replaced by the more localized and systematic forms of 

 itinerant work. 



The total fund reported as available for farmers' institutes, 

 $510,784, was somewhat less in 1913 than during the previous year. 

 The amount reported as expended for institute purposes was $474,384, 

 or an average of about $23 per institute session as compared with 

 $25 the previous year. 



During the year 33 agricultural colleges and experiment stations 

 furnished 415 lecturers at farmers' institutes, and 28 of these insti- 

 tutions report 2,950 days of time given to institute work by their 

 representatives. This shows a falling off of 59 lecturers in the num- 

 ber furnished by the colleges and a reduction of 5.7 days of time for 

 each lecturer during 1913 as compared with the previous year. This 

 is no doubt due to the rapid expansion of the extension feature in the 

 colleges which is now taking the time of college instructors and 

 diverting their efforts from the institutes to the other forms of exten- 

 sion work. This withdrawal, however, does not seem to have dimin- 

 ished the total number of lecturers on the institute force in the 

 several States, the reports showing 1,036 persons listed in 1913 as 

 regularly employed by the State directors as lecturers. 



Institute directors in 13 States report that 63 of their instructors 

 gave 385 days of time to teachers' institutes, meeting at these insti- 

 tutes a total of 36,819 persons. Eighty-one persons gave 347 days 

 of time to high-school instruction, meeting 43,191 persons. Twenty- 

 five men gave 41 days to instruction in the normal schools, meeting 

 16,258 persons. Forty men devoted an aggregate of 387 days to 

 lecturing in the rural public schools, meeting 64,420 children. One 

 hundred and twenty-five men gave 18,439 days to itinerant work 

 among the farmers, giving advice and conducting demonstrations, 

 and 97 men gave 1,824 days to other forms of extension work. 



