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lectures and slides has proven a useful service, and much effort has 

 been made to increase the list of lectures and improve the slides in 

 every way possible. 



This division of the work of the office remained in charge of 

 Mr. J. M. Stedman, as farmers' institute specialist. 



PUBLICATIONS. 



The office issued during the year 68 documents, aggregating 3,569 

 pages. These included 21 numbers of Experiment Station Record, 2 

 reports, 9 technical bulletins, 5 Farmers' Bulletins, 11 publications 

 of the insular stations, 3 Yearbook articles, and 7 miscellaneous docu- 

 ments. These publications, reflecting the activities of the office, dealt 

 with the work and expenditures of the State experiment stations; 

 the diversified operations of the experiment stations in Alaska, 

 Hawaii, Porto Rico, and Guam; methods and materials of instruc- 

 tion in agriculture; cooperative extension work in agriculture and 

 home economics; Federal laws, regulations, and rulings affecting 

 the agricultural colleges and experiment stations; lists of college, 

 station, and extension workers in agriculture and home economics in 

 the United States ; irrigation structures, methods, and practice ; 

 progress of reclamation by drainage of swamp and overflowed lands ; 

 and foods and household equipment. 



Volumes XXXI and XXXII of Experiment Station Record, each 

 consisting of nine numbers and the usual author and subject indexes, 

 were prepared during the year, in accordance with the general plan 

 in operation for several years. These volumes contained 7,800 ab- 

 stracts of the world's scientific literature pertaining to agriculture, 

 together with monthly editorials discussing important phases of the 

 development of agricultural investigation and science, and brief 

 notes on the progress of institutions for agricultural education and 

 research in this country and abroad. 



The editorial management of the Record remained in charge of 

 Dr. E. W. Allen. The other publication work of the office was in 

 charge of Mr. W. H. Beal. 



WORK OF STATES RELATIONS COMMITTEE. 



In consequence of the passage of the agricultural extension act 

 of May 8, 1914, the administration of which is given to the Secre- 

 tary of Agriculture, a committee was appointed by the Secretary to 

 carry out the provisions of this act. Since the act provided for co- 

 operative relations between the department and the State agricul- 

 tural colleges in demonstration and extension work in agriculture 

 and home economics, it was deemed highly desirable to coordinate 

 all the work of the different bureaus of the department in these 

 lines with similar work of the agricultural colleges and to enter into 

 general cooperative arrangements with the colleges, under which 

 the department would work through them in all its extension activi- 

 ties. The making of such arrangements was intrusted to the com- 

 mittee, which was designated the States Relation Committee. Its 

 members were the Director and Assistant Director of the office and 

 the two officers of the Bureau of Plant Industry in charge of 



