Annual Report of the Office of Experiment Stations, June 30, 1905 Page: 20
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20 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS.
cultural education and to follow and record the progress in agricultural
education. In order to do this more effectively it has established
a department of agricultural education in the Experiment
Station Record. It has also prepared a number of publications
relating to agricultural education, conducted a large correspondence
on this subject, and upon request sent representatives to many meet-.
ings of farmers and educators. The Office is in a position to render
much more effective aid in the promotion of agricultural education
as soon as better facilities for this work are available.
THE FARMERS' INSTITUTES.
The statistics of farmers' institutes in the United States, as compiled
by the Farmers' Institute Specialist of this Office, are included
in a report given on page 359. According to these statistics, institutes
were held in all but three of the States and in all Territories,
except Alaska, Indian Territory, and Porto Rico. The total number
of institutes held was 3,271, and the total number of sessions 10,555.
The total attendance at these institutes was over 995,000, an increase
of 153,000 over that of the previous year. The appropriations for
institute purposes amounted to $225,700. The number of institute
lecturers employed regularly on the State force increased from 953
to 995. Twenty States held round-up institutes, comprising 192
sessions, with an attendance of 30,000. Six States report 167 institutes
for boys, and nine States 454 institutes for women.
A -school of methods in institute teaching, schools of instruction
for institute workers, more institutes for women, more institutes for
boys, a large number of railroad trains run as institute specials, and
greater concentration of effort on single topics of instruction were
among the leading features of progress in the institute work of 1905.
The principal needs of the institutes are more efficient lecturers, a
wider distribution of agricultural literature among farmers, and
better organization.
The tenth annual convention of the American Association of
Farmers' Institute Workers was held in Washington, D. C., November
9-11, 1905, and was attended by 92 delegates, representing 29
States and 3 of the Provinces of Canada. The proceedings of this
convention have been published as Bulletin 165 of this Office, and a
brief account of the meeting is given on page 369 of this report.
The work of this Office in relation to farmers' institutes has been
continued as heretofore. The Farmers' Institute Specialist has continued
to aid the State directors by distributing literature, attending
meetings of representative farmers, delivering addresses before farm
organizations, aiding in the preparation of publications, perfecting
the organization of the work of the Office, and conducting correspondence,
During the year 10 States and the Province of Ontario
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