Show F farmers tir mers institutes are crowd bringers in ohio although community funds tor for farmers institutes have shrunk from to or 40 per cent the total attendance or number of persons served has continued to increase a rise of 14 per cent in the last two years according to J P schmidt supervisor per visor of farmers institutes for the agricultural extension service of the ohio state university funds he says have decreased but requests for help are greatly increasing costs averaged about 83 cents per person attending in 1931 32 of which the state paid 23 cents the total attendance was institutes which are open to any citizen in the community and which have hare been publicly supported since ISSO were held in all 93 ohio counties wayne wayna county home of the ohio agricultural experiment station had he largest number of institutes and highest attendance in 1932 1032 16 institutes utes with a total attendance of aco 60 eighty four per cent ot of the 89 members of the present regular farmers institute staff schmidt pointed out are farmers the average person in this group rates as successful in some farm enterprise college trained or a master farmer or master homemaker home twenty operating cooperating co state agencies furnish some talent at no cost or for expenses only among these are the state department of agriculture the ohio agricultural experiment station farm organizations state department of education ohio bankers assoria tion state department of health commodity marketing associations and the ohio council of churches |