REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE STATES RELATIONS 



SERVICE. 



United States Department or Agkiculture, 



States Relations Service, 

 Washington^ D. C.^ Septcmher ^5, 1919. 



Sir : I have the honor to present herewith the report of the States 

 Relations Service for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1919. 

 Respectfully, 



A. C. True, 



Director. 

 Hon. D. F. Houston, 



Secretary of Agriculture. 



INTRODUCTION. 



Tlie States Relations Service represents the Secretary of Agri- 

 culture in his relations with the State agricultural colleges and ex- 

 periment stations under the acts of Congress granting funds to these 

 institutions for agricultural experiment stations and cooperative ex- 

 tension work in agriculture and home economics, and in carrying out 

 the provisions of the acts of Congress making appropriations to the 

 Department of Agriculture for farmers' cooperative demonstration 

 work, investigations relating to agricultural schools, farmers' insti- 

 tutes, and home economics, and the maintenance of agricultural ex- 

 periment stations in Alaska, Hawaii, Porto Rico, Guam, and the 

 Virgin Islands. 



The organization of the service includes the following offices: (1) 

 The Office of the Director, which deals with the general business and 

 administration of the service and the work relating to agricultural 

 instruction and farmers' institutes; (2) the Office of Experiment Sta- 

 tions; (3) the Office of Extension Work in the South, including the 

 farmers' cooperative demonstration work and the cooperative ex- 

 tension work in 15 Southern States; (4) the Office of Extension AVork 

 in the North and AVest, including the farmers' cooperative demonstra- 

 tion work and the cooperative extension work in 33 Northern and 

 Western States: and (5) the Office of Home Economics, including in- 

 vestigations relative to foods, clothing, and household equipment and 

 management. 



During the past year the service continued to have charge of the 

 work authorized by Congress in the item in -the food-production act 

 of August 10, 1917, providing " for increasing food production and 

 eliminating waste and promoting conservation of food b^^ educational 

 and demonstrational methods through county, district, and urban 

 agents and others." A war emergency fund of $6,100,000 for this 

 purpose was used through the two extension offices for the expansion 

 of the work of the county agricultural agents, home demonstration 

 agents, and boys' and girls' clubs. 



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