FARMERS INSTITUTES Beginning where the Royal Agricultural Society left off, the Farmers Institutes promoted agricultural education on a variety of farming topics including soil cultivation, orchard management, livestock, seed varieties, fruits, and estimates on the state and production of crops. These Institutes bought seed, fertilizer, and feed cooperatively, an early reflection of the co-operative movement, which was beginning to take root on the Island. Eventually, these Institutes began to initiate co¬ operative practices among their members, and served as the center of shipping clubs for livestock, buying clubs for seed, equipment and feed. (30) Farmer's Institute (1901): (31) Name: " St. Peter 's Institute, Head President: Charles Waye , Head Secretary: Andrew Lewis , Head Number of Members in 1901: 133 Government Grant: $50.00 Total Receipts: $116.50 Purchase of Stock Expenditures: 0 Official Salaries: 0 Misc. expenditures: 0 Total expenditures: 0 Balance on hand (1901): $116.50 An article in the Examiner reported that "the largest institution (was) situated in the eastern part of the Island, where the farmers have gone into the work with more energy." (32) The St. Peters Bay branch of the Farmer's Institutes led the Island in membership numbers with its 133 participants. According to Don Anderson George Maclnnis was active in the initiation the Farmers Institutes in St. Peters . (33) Farmer's Institute: Name: " Cable Head East " President: Bennett Lewis , Secretary: Joseph Lewis , No. of members: 1937 22 1942 18 1938 19 1943 20 1939 17 1944 21 1940 16 1946 20 1941 16 1947 18 97