Excerpt from Michigan State Farmers' Institutes: Winter of 1895-6 Dear sir - I herewith transmit a report of the Farmers' Institute work carried on under the direction of your honorable Board during the winter of 1895-6. The report is intended to Show the methods and results of the work under the State law of 1895. The growing importance Of Institutes in this State and in other states makes it seem of interest to insert a brief history of Michigan Institutes, although the substance Of such history has heretofore been printed. We have also included considerable statis tical material which may not be of interest to the general reader, but which is valuable to the student of Institute work, and which will be more especially valuable for reference as the years go by. With the space at our command it has been impossible to give a lengthy report of each Institute, but we have endeavored to present something from each meeting. The bulk of the material, so far as the meetings are concerned, is edited from a stenographic report of the Round-up meeting at Grand Rapids. At this meeting nearly every worker employed by the Board of Agriculture presented his leading topic. Hence, the report of the Round-up contains a large proportion of the addresses made at the county meetings. A brief discussion of the chief features of the Michi gan Institute system will be found in the text. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.