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Show REPORT ON INSTITUTE WORK Number of Meetings and Attendance of Farmers at Them Is Steadily Increasing Each Year. Both the number of farmers' institutes insti-tutes held each year and the attendance attend-ance at these meetings is steadily increasing, in-creasing, according to a report on farmers' institute work which has been published by the United States department depart-ment of Agriculture as Bulletin No. 269. During the fiscal year ending June 30, 1914, the report states, 25,238 of these institutes were held throughout through-out the country, with a total attendance attend-ance of 3,656,381. This is an increase in attendance of 26 per cent over that of any previous year. On the other hand, the expense of conducting the work was nearly $63,000 less than last year, the total cost for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1914, being ?44,S97.51. The farmers' institute organization conducts its work under many different dif-ferent forms io that it is almost impossible im-possible to summarize its activities briefly. For example, in addition to the ordina-y meetings, there were movable schools in 13 stales which had a registered attendance of 112,498 different people. Field demonstration meetings were also held In 15 states, although no record of the attendance was kept. Special railroad trains were organized in 17 other states for the purpose of giving lectures and demonstrations. demon-strations. A detailed analysis of this work showing the number of different kinds of meetings In each state, the attendance, and the duration of each, is contained in the bulletin already mentioned. This bulletin also contains a number of notes on agricultural extension ex-tension work of a similar nature in foreign countries. |