EXTENSION DIVISION. 155 



RErORT OF DIVISION OF EXTENSION WORK. 



President F. S. Kedzie, 



Dear Sir: — The activities of the Extension division for the fiscal year 

 are fully covered in the project reports appended hereto. In transmit- 

 ing these statements to yon, I wish to call attention to tlie new forces 

 which greatly affect all agricultural activities of a public service char- 

 acter. I refer to the growth of the rural organization movement now tak- 

 ing on definite forms and fun(*tions in the state and county farm bureaus, 

 and the purely marketing associations and exchanges. I wish to assure 

 you that the full force of all the lines of service of the College have been 

 made to apply where wanted and needed on these problems and no effort 

 has been spared to assist by counsel and actual organization effort to 

 direct these movements toward safe, efficient policies. 



It is difficult in reporting upon any public service work to find any 

 adequate measure of its value to the State, You will find in the follow- 

 ing reports records of how the time has been spent, how many meetings 

 have been held, how many people have been reached, etc., and yet this 

 expresses very poorly the character and value of the work done. Eft'ort 

 has been made to record the actual money value of the service, but such 

 data appear always to be questionable estimates, appearing too high 

 or too low according to the viewpoint of the individual. I am convinced 

 that no money value can be placed on public service work and any at- 

 tempt to do so may be unfair because of smallness of vision of the whole 

 industry affected or because of the exaggeration of an unimportant de- 

 tail. « 



The measure of results which is most satisfactory to the worker and 

 the public also is the expression of appreciation coming from the people 

 benefited by the service. However, such appreciation cannot be put in 

 concrete form in an official report, but I want to assure you that ex- 

 pressions of this kind have been very generous during the year and 

 have given the workers greater courage, optimism and faith in their 

 work for the coming year. 



The work of the Extension division under the terms of the Smith- 

 Lever law is cooperative with the United States Department of Agri- 

 culture; the cooperation being carried into effect through the Oflice of 

 Extension Work, North and West, of the States Relations Service. Our 

 relationship with this office during the year has been most jtleasant Jind 

 helpful. Through its Chief we luive been able to make advaiitaucctns 

 contact with the various bureaus of the Department of Agriciillme 

 making their services available in Michigan. 



