The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-10-09
SOME FALL FARM TOPICS
CONCERNING FARMERS INSTITUTES.
The Law About Them-Who viii Direct
Them In the Various Districts-Pouitry
Understanding Fruit-valuabIe Rec
ipes-Hlnts For the Farm.

The 5000 appropriated for farmers in
stitutes by the last general assembly is all
the money available for two years. In
view of this fact, and after consultation
with the proper authorities, the committee
on institutes has planned to spread the
work over two years. for the purpose OF
carrying out thereby more perfectly the
intent OF the law. II this plan meets
with the approval of the members of the
state board of agriculture, institutes will
be held in the alternate counties OF each
agricultural district during the coming
winter, and with intervening counties,
one year later. The committee on insti-
tutes will apportion TO each county $40 OF
the state institute fund toward defraying
expenses incurred in holding farmers
institute under the provisions OF the law.
AS soon as the members of the state board
of agriculture decide in which counties in
stitutes will be held during the coming
winter, the agricultural associations in
these counties should make the necessary
preliminary arrangements in order that
there may be thorough local preparation
tor the institutes. If, in any case, the
proper officials are slow to move, the
wide-awake farmers should take the ini-
tiative and urge prompt action.
1t is the fixed purpose OF the committee
on institutes that these meetings shall be
live farmers institutes, conducted largely
by and solely in the interests OF the iarm-
ing classes.
The members OF the state board of agri-
culture have been asked to cooperate
with the authorities OF Purdue university
and with the county agricultural associa-
tions in arranging for and in conducting
the institutes.
Nearly all the members of the state
board OF agriculture have kindly promised
their hearty cooperation and many OF
them are already actively engaged In ar
ranging for institute work.
The following members OF the board,
having definitely consented to act, have
been appointed to direct the work of ar
ranging for and holding Institutes in the
counties of their respective agricultural
districts:
First Agricultural District-The Hon. Robert
Mitchell, Princeton.
Second Agricultural District-The Hon. w.
W. Berry, Vincennes.
A. Sieg, COrydon.
Fifth Agricultural District-The Hon. V. K.
Officer, Volga.
Seventh Agricultural District-The Hon. E.
III. Peed, New Castle.
Eighth Agricultural District-The Hon. 5. w.
DungaD Franklin.
Ninth Agricultural District-The Hon. Thorn
as Nelson, Bloomingdale.
Tenth Agricultural District-The Hon. j. n.
Davidson, Whitesville.
Twelfth Agricultural District-The Hon. j.
NJ. Boggs, Lafayette.
Fourteenth Agricultural District-Ihe Hon.
]. A. McClung, Rochester.
Fifteenth Agricultural District-The Hon.
W. A Banks, LapOrte.
Sixteenth-Agricultural District-The Hon.
r. NJ. Lockhart, Waterloo.
If the members of the other agricul-
tural districts find it impossible to look
after the work the superintendent of in
stitutes will cooperate directly with the
county associations in arranging for insti-
tutes in said districts.
The act relative to farmers institutes
was passed by the last legislature. This
act makes it the duty of the committee oil
experimental agriculture and horticulture
of the board of trustees, together with the
faculty of the school of agriculture of Pur-
due university, to appoint, before Nov.
of each year, suitable persons to hold in
the several counties of this state, between
Nov and April | of each year, county
institutes for the purpose of giving Ia
farmers, and others interested therein, in.
structions in agriculture, horticulture, ag-
ricultural chemistry and economic ento-
mology.
Institutes shall be held at such times
and places as the committee and faculty
may determine, and under such rules and
regulations as they may make. The re-
suit of the latest investigations in theoret.
ical and practical agriculture and horticul.
ture must be furnished those attending
the institutes. The act appropriates s., 00C
for the expenses of the institutes.