Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-29

Announcements of the farmers in
stitutes for the coming winter have
been made by the university author
tiles in charge. These 101 meetings
have all been placed in response TO
petitions, and have been granted with
reference to reaching points in the
state that have not previously had in
stitutes and with a view to placing at
least one meeting in each agricultural
county that asked for it. Towns re-
mote from the railroad are favorably
considered whenever possible, a five to
twenty-mile drive not counting against
place if the people want meeting
and are in need of institute help.
The workers have been selected
of the state who have the ability to
give intelligibly the practices that
have brought them success, as we'll as
the reason for these practices. Supt.
McKerrow is also in correspondence
with several noted specialists from
outside of Wisconsin and is planning
to engage them to come to attend a
number of Institutes.
There will be five corps of workers,
each holding two-day Institutes each
week. Each corps will consist of a
conductor and one assistant who work
together through the entire season;
they are further assisted by from one
to four specialists, making a force of
men who can discuss any phase OF
farm work.
An edition of 10000 copies of far,
mers' institute bulletin No. II will be
ready for distribution after Dec. TO-
Several hundred OF them, with other
agricultural reading, will be given
away at each institute.
The dates of the institutes are as
follows:
Dec. 11-12-Town of Lawrence, Anti
go, Pound, Spencer, Bloomville.
Dec. 13-14-Angelica, Birnamwood
Abrams, Phillips, Marshfield.
Dec. 1S19-St. Croix Falls, Knapp,
Ellsworth, Arkansaw. Dallas.
Dec. 2021-Balsam Lake, Clear
Lake, Houlton, Rock Elm, Cameron.
Jan. S-9-Brackett, Fountain City,
Loyal, Holmen. Modena.
Jan. 10-11-Abbottsfor Wauman-
dee, Stanley, Taylor, Eleva.
Jan. 15-16-Mt. Hope, Eastman, Bur
ton, Dodgeville, Wiota.
Jan. 17-18-Sylvan, DeSoto, Lancas-
ter, Stewart, Mineral Point.
Jan. 22-23-Juda, Walworth, Blue
Mounds, Ithaca, Town of Monroe.
Jan. 24-25-Orfordville Eagle, Cobb,
Middleton, White Creek
Jan. 29-30-Whitehall Humbird War
rens, Ontario, Camp Douglas.
Jan 31-Feb. 1-Fairchild, Elk Mound,
Black River Falls, Viroqua, Tomah.
Feb. 19-2O-Cambria, Lime, Ridge,
Endeavor, Cambridge, Brownville
Feb. 21-22-Mauston, Union Center,
Fall River, North Freedom, Manches-
ter.
Feb. 26-27-Pilsen, Weyauwega,
Wayside, Kaukauna, Amherst.
Feb. 28-Mch. ALASKA, Winchester,
Melnik, Ogdensburg, Pine River
Mch. 5-6-Western Union, Genoa Jet,
Waterloo, Sussex, Thiensville.
Mch. 78-Millard, Salem, Oconomo-
voc, Waterford. Oakwood.
Mch. 12-13-Parnell, Horns Corners,
Nenno, Cato. Brandon
Mch. 14-15-Jericho, Fillmore, Fond
du Lac, Sheboygan Falls, Eureka.
The conductor at the first named
place in each instance will be Charles
Thorp, in the second w. C. Bradley,
third L. e. Scott, fourth H C. Taylor,
fifth George Wylie
A cooking school in connection with
the institute will be held at Cambria,
Mauston, Humbird. Elk Mound,
Waterloo, Oconomowoc, Kaukauna,
Ogdensburg, Brandon and Eureka.
The fifteenth annual closing in
stitute will be held at Oshkosh March
1921.