36 ANNUAL EEPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



tion of all the department's bulletins except to libraries and other 

 institutions which need them. 



The educational motion pictures of the department are growing in 

 favor; 33 new films were completed, and 21 old films revised. Work- 

 was begun on 28 new subjects. The department now has a total of 

 547 reels available for distribution. Pictures are circulated by ex- 

 tension workers and schools. It is estimated that the department 

 films are seen each year by an audience of between four and five mil- 

 lion persons. 



The department exhibits were displayed at more than 60 fairs and 

 expositions and special shows, at which the total attendance was more 

 than 4,000,000. The form of presentation of these exhibits has been 

 much improved. An attractive exhibit for the Brazilian Interna- 

 tional Centennial Exposition at Rio de Janeiro, depicting the agri- 

 cultural resources and development of the United States, was de- 

 signed, prepared, and shipped to Brazil. 



REORGANIZATION OF EXTENSION WORK. 



As a result of special study of extension activities of the depart- 

 ment it seems desirable to reorganize this work to some extent. At 

 the present time there is no one person who is charged with the 

 responsibility of coordinating all of the extension work of the 

 department. In the Budget for the ensuing year I have asked 

 Congress to provide for a director of extension work, and in the 

 meantime I am shaping our work with a view to such reorganiza- 

 tion. It is the plan to bring under this directing head all of those 

 offices which have to do entirely with extension work. These are 

 the office of cooperative extension work now in the States Relations 

 Service, the office of motion pictures in the Division of Publications, 

 and the Office of Exhibits temporarily attached to the Assistant Sec- 

 retary's office. These offices, in addition to the editorial office, are 

 the ones through which the bureaus find expression for the work 

 which is ready for presentation to the public. The plan will make 

 unnecessary the States Relations Service, the office of the director 

 of information, and the Division of Publications, and when put 

 into effect will do away with them as such. The other offices in 

 these divisions will be placed under the supervision of the director 

 of scientific work, the director of regulatory work, or within the 

 Secretary's office proper. 



