STATES EELATIONS SERVICE. 



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Taking- the figures, without the emergency fund, and avernging 

 the 15 Southern States, we hnd that 8.1 per cent was sp^nt in ad- 

 ministration; 2.1 per cent in printing and distribution of publica- 

 tions ; 43 "per cent for county agents ; 24.7 per cent for home demon- 

 stration agents, and 4 per cent for boys' ckib work, while 18.1 per 

 cent was spent for specialists. 



The average percentage of all funds, exclusive of the emergency 

 fund, spent for the three prmcipal projects — county agricultural 

 agents, county home demonstration agents, and boys' club work — was 

 71.7 per cent. If we add the emergency fund to these figures and 

 take the grand total, the x^ercentages expended for the different lines 

 of work are, count}- agents, 49; home demonstration agents, 28.8; 

 boys' club work, 3.8; specialists, 11.7; publications, 1.4; and admin- 

 istration, 5.3. The percentage given for specialists does not include 

 the amounts expended for specialists from various bureaus of the 

 Department of Agriculture. 



The proportionate amounts expended for county agricultural 

 agents and for county home demonstration agents var}- in the dif- 

 ferent States. In some States less than half as much is expended for 

 home demonstration Avork as for county agent work, while in one 

 State the sums expended for these two purposes are practically equal. 



The following table shows the expenditures for the, various lines of 

 work classified under general subjects: 



Amounts and percentages of funds allotted to various lines of extension icorlc 



in 191S-19 in the Southern Stales. 



COUNTY AGENTS. 



OKGAKIZATIOX. 



Each count}^ has an organization cooperating with the county 

 agent and the State extension service in the work of improving 

 agricultural conditions. In the majarity of the Southern States 

 these organizations consist of community organizations of farmers 

 and their families, the county organization generally consisting of 

 representatives from such community organization. In the most of 

 the Southern States this county organization is known as the countj' 

 farm council ; in some it is known as the county farm bureau. Two- 

 thirds of all the counties in the South have perfected such organiza- 

 tions within tlie last few 3'ears. while the other third all have tho 

 foundation laid in community organizations but have not reached 

 the perfection of organization outlined above. These organizations. 



