People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1893 — Farmers’ Institute. [ARTICLE]

Farmers’ Institute.

We have received a complete list of the farmers’ institutes which are to be held over the state during the coming three months. The Jasper county institutewill be held in Rensselaer, on Thursday and Friday, January 25 and 26, 1894. The speakers aiv Messrs. Voyles and Mounts, and are considered among the best workers in their line of business, and the farmers of this county will make a great mistake if they fail to attend these interesting meetings. Paste the date in your hat or chalk it on your stable door, so you won’t forget it. We give below some interesting facts concerning the farmers’ institutes of this state, which is under the direction of the Purdue University school of agriculture at Lafayette. During the season of 1889-90 farmers' institutes were held in fifty counties, and in 1800-91 in forty-one of the remaining fortytwo counties, under state auspices, and with an appropriation of <5,000 for the two years. Since that time we have had an annual appropriation of $5,000 for farmers' institutes, with which such institutes have been hold in ninety counties in 1891-92, and in eighty-nine counties in 1892-93. Indiana has thus held a greater number of farmers’ institutes for the expenditure of state funds than any other state in the Union. This result has been attained through the united efforts of our most progressive farmers and the generous support of public-spirited professional and business men of our towns and cities.