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which have been previously arranged for and advertised. There is also a 

 central farmers' institute which holds its meeting annually in Toronto for 

 three days, and at this meeting one or more persons represent each farmers' 

 institute in the province. The government grant to this is $800. 



Manitoba. — There are about twenty or twenty-five farmers' institutes in 

 Manitoba, each one of which receives $25 a year from the provincial funds. 



Nova Scotia. — There is no regular organization for farmers' institutes in 

 this province, and no money is given by the government specially for this 

 purpose. Professor Smith, principal of the Agricultural School, is holding 

 meetings in the western counties of the province, and one of the graduates of 

 the school is to be employed to lecture in the Cape Breton counties during 

 the winter. The expenses of these officers are borne by the government. 



Colorado. — No direct appropriations have been made by the general as- 

 sembly for the purpose of supporting and conducting farmers' institutes. 

 The State Board of Agriculture has annually set aside a certain sum to be 

 used for the purpose of defraying the expenses of professors attending such 

 institutes held in different parts of the state. Since the year 1888 a record 

 has been kept of the amount expended for this purpose, which is as follows: 

 For the year 1888, $99.55; for the year 1889, $56.60; for the year 1890, 

 $121.80 ; for the year 1891, $90 ; for the year 1892 the sum of 500 has been 

 appropriated for said purposes. 



Connecticut. — No appropriation. The Board of Agriculture holds an im- 

 portant winter meeting from its own funds, and about $200 per year is other- 

 wise expended for institute work. 



Delaware. — Annual appropriation, $200 to each of the three counties. 

 An act providing for the holding of farmers' institutes was passed March 29, 

 Itatistics J ^9- The object of the institutes is defined to be " the discussion orally, 

 of insti- or by written essays or papers, of agricultural or kindred matters, and for 

 tutes. the dissemination of agricultural knowledge among the farmers of the 

 state." 



Florida. — No appropriation. 

 Georgia. — No appropriation. 



Illinois. — In 1889 the thirty-sixth general assembly appropriated $100 

 per annum for the use of each congressional district in the state holding 

 farmers' institute meetings. There being twenty congressional districts, the 

 sum appropriated therefore amounts to $4,000 for the two legislative years. 

 There was paid to the districts holding farmers' institutes from said appro- 

 priation, the sum of $3,000. The thirty-seventh general assembly, 1891, 

 passed an act appropriating the sum of $50 annually for two years to each 

 county farmers' institute ; there being 102 counties in the state, the appro- 

 priation therefor amounts to the sum of $10,200. But few of the counties 

 have yet held meetings, but most of them will probably hold institutes, and 

 will draw the amount appropriated for the holding of them. 



Indiana. — Annual appropriation, $5,000. 



Iowa. — No appropriation. Last winter the State Agricultural Society and 

 the Agricultural College appropriated a small sum. Institutes are held, but 

 they are supported by individuals or societies. 



Kansas. — No appropriation. 



Kentucky. — The first appropriation for state institutes was made in May, 

 1890, when the legislature passed an amendment to the law creating the 

 Bureau of Agriculture, and required, among other things, that institutes be 



